Machine Learning Engineer

Job description / Role

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®.

What you'll be doing

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and deploying machine learning models that support our stylists and enhance our customers' experiences. You will work closely with our product development teams to integrate AI capabilities into our platforms, enabling more personalized fashion recommendations, improved sizing predictions, and innovative style simulations.

- Collaborate with product teams to define and refine machine learning projects that align with business goals.
- Develop and maintain scalable and robust machine learning models to drive user engagement and satisfaction.
- Utilize a variety of datasets to train and validate models, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in real-world applications.
- Implement advanced machine learning techniques, including supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, and anomaly detection.
- Work with the engineering team to deploy models into production, ensuring they operate at scale and with high reliability.
- Continuously evaluate and iterate on models based on performance metrics and feedback from users and stakeholders.
- Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in AI and machine learning tobring innovation and improvements to our solutions.
- Work in short sprints on a POC / MVP basis and iterate models over time.

Requirements

What you'll need to succeed

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field.
- Proven experience in machine learning, data science, or a similar role.
- Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python and frameworks/libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and understanding of deploying applications at scale.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, startup environment.
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

What we can offer you

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.

About the Company

The Chalhoub Group is the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East since 1955. As an expert in retail, distribution and marketing services based in Dubai, the group has become a major player in the fashion, beauty and gift sectors regionally.

By blending its Middle East expertise and intimate knowledge of luxury, Chalhoub Group is building brands in the region, by offering service excellence to all its partners and a unique experience to its customers through its passionate teams.

With a growing workforce of more than 9,000 people, implemented in 14 countries, as well as the operating of over 470 retail outlets, the group's success is attributed to its most valued asset of highly skilled and dedicated teams. Professionalism and passion are what fuel the Chalhoub Group's competitive edge in today's market.

By being committed to implementing sustainable practices into their business, the Chalhoub Group has been awarded in 2013 the CSR Label from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce.