Associate Data Scientist
Bosta
Data Science
Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Posted on Jan 7, 2026
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 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