The Role :
We are looking for a Data Science Engineer / Senior Research Engineer to join our applied AI team at Abhibus. This is a hybrid role at the intersection of AI / ML, classical data science, and data engineering. Youll be responsible for :
- Designing and building AI-driven features that power search, personalization, pricing, recommendations, and fraud detection.
- Developing robust data pipelines and scalable infrastructure to ensure reliable ML model training and deployment.
- Generating statistical and business insights from large-scale bus travel data to shape product strategy.
Your work will touch millions of travellers and hundreds of bus operators, bringing data-driven innovation to the mobility ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities :
Design and implement ML models for personalization, demand forecasting, route optimization, pricing, anomaly detection, and recommendations.Build, maintain, and optimize ETL / data pipelines to feed ML models and analytics dashboards.Work with product managers & engineers to translate business requirements models production systems.Perform statistical analysis, A / B testing, and causal inference for product & growthexperiments.
Read and adapt academic research papers into practical product applications.Ensure model lifecycle management : data collection, feature engineering, training,deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
Collaborate with data engineering team on data architecture, warehousing, and scaling Were Looking For :Background in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics (top institutes preferred).2 - 6 years of experience in data science & engineering.Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, ML / DL, and statistics.Proficiency in Python and libraries like TensorFlow / PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy.Hands-on experience with SQL and data pipelines (Airflow, Spark, Kafka, dbt, or equivalent).Ability to translate ambiguous problems into structured models and scalable :Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and ML deployment tools (SageMaker, MLflow, Kubeflow).Knowledge of big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, Presto, ClickHouse).Experience with travel, mobility, or marketplace problems.Contributions to open-source ML or published research.(ref : hirist.tech)