Bosta: Associate Data Scientist (Cairo, Hybrid)

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About Bosta:

Launched in 2017, Bosta is an overnight delivery provider for E-commerce companies in Egypt. Leveraging technology to empower businesses is what we do best. Our goal is to disrupt the logistics industry by bringing technology and experience together to provide a one-stop shop for delivery solutions.

We rely on advanced technology to deliver orders to our customers in a fast way. Businesses can track and connect with couriers and follow up on their orders - all in one system.

Job code: New 2026TECH-721

Job Responsibilities:

    • Build AI-powered systems using NLP, LLMs, and agentic workflows

    • Develop NLP solutions for tasks such as text classification, entity extraction, intent detection, summarization, and sentiment analysis

    • Design and implement agentic AI systems that reason over conversations, historical data, and business rules

    • Apply traditional machine learning techniques for prediction, classification, and optimization

    • Use operations research techniques (optimization, heuristics, simulations) to support logistics and operational decision-making

    • Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, and commercial teams to translate business problems into data science solutions

    • Build end-to-end pipelines: data ingestion, feature engineering, modeling, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring

    • Deploy models and AI services to production using cloud platforms and modern MLOps practices

Job Qualifications:

    • 1–3 years of experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, or applied AI roles

    • Strong foundation in data science and statistics

    • Solid experience with traditional machine learning (e.g., regression, tree-based models, clustering, time series)

    • Strong Python skills and familiarity with common ML/NLP libraries (scikit-learn, spaCy, NLTK, Hugging Face, etc.)

    • Understanding of software engineering fundamentals (APIs, version control, testing)

    • Hands-on knowledge of NLP:Text preprocessing and feature extractionClassical NLP models and modern embeddingsExperience with tasks like classification, NER, topic modeling, or text similarity

    • Experience working with LLMs for NLP tasks (prompting, fine-tuning or adaptation, chaining, tool usage)

Preferred Qualifications

    • ITI Data Science track graduate (or equivalent technical training or post-graduate studies)

    • Knowledge of Operations Research (optimization, routing, scheduling, simulations)

    • Experience with cloud computing (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

    • Familiarity with model deployment and MLOps practices (Docker, CI/CD, monitoring)

    • Experience building agentic AI or multi-step NLP systems

    • Exposure to Arabic and multilingual NLP is a plus

    • Experience with vector databases, retrieval systems, or RAG pipelines

    • Familiarity with conversational AI or chat-based systems

    • Background in logistics, marketplaces, or large-scale operations

Why Join the Data Science Team at Bosta?

    • Build high-impact AI, ML and Decision Support systems used daily by operations and commercial teams

    • Work on real production use cases, not just experiments

    • Grow your skills in AI and Data Science.

    • Ownership, autonomy, and collaboration in a fast-growing tech environment