Associate Data Scientist

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: Inc - 2026TECH-024

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 similarityExperience 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