63 Data Scientist jobs in Saudi Arabia

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a forward-looking view of the future, born of our nine decades of experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

We are seeking a Data Scientist to join our Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Organization (AI&A).

AI&A, within our Digital Transformation Office, is dedicated to realizing business value from leveraging the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics. We are a center of excellence in Saudi Aramco for AI technologies and data science.

Your primary role is to identify potential value from data, formulate AI and data science ideas, and conceptualize them.

• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.
• Mine and analyze data from company sources to optimize product development and business strategies.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and gathering techniques.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms for datasets.
• Support ideation for packaging new ideas/products and preparing them for minimal viable product development.
• Assess AI applicability in enhancing current business processes.

Candidates must hold a Master’s or PhD in data science, computer science, computer vision, applied mathematics, or a related field.

Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience in Data Science & AI projects (Generative AI, Computer Vision, NLP, Time Series). Experience in the energy sector is a plus.

Experience with tools like MLflow, Kubeflow, TensorLight, etc., and expertise in data collection, cleaning, preprocessing, and wrangling.

Fluency in R or Python; familiarity with Golang is a plus.

Strong experience with machine learning techniques, especially in computer vision and time series forecasting, including models like YOLO, ViT, ResNet, Unet, AlexNet, LSTMs, Prophet.

Proficiency in deep learning frameworks like Keras, TensorFlow, and PyTorch.

Deep understanding of Large and Vision Model Transformer Architectures and experience in deploying systems based on GenAI technology.

Experience in Information Retrieval, content recommendation, and document classification.

Experience in building object detection, face/gesture recognition, and identification engines.

Ability to design, develop, and deploy AI systems, with a focus on practical application.

Job posting duration: from 07/01/2025 to 12/31/2025.

Our employees work on challenging, rewarding projects supported by significant investment in technology and talent development. We promote continuous learning and sector-specific knowledge enhancement through extensive workforce development programs.

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world’s largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

We are seeking a Data Scientist to join our Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Organization (AI&A). AI&A, within our Digital transformation office, is dedicated to realize business added value from leveraging the latest technological advancements of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics. We are a center of excellence in Saudi Aramco for Artificial Intelligence technologies and data science.

Your primary role is to identify potential value from data, formulate AI and data science ideas and conceptualize them.

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.
• Mine and analyze data from company data sources to drive optimization and improvement of product development, and business strategies.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to datasets.
• Support ideation endeavors in packaging new ideas/products and preparing them for minimal viable product development.
• Assess AI applicability in enhancing current business processes.

As the successful candidate you must hold a Master of Science or PhD degree in data science, computer science, computer vision, applied mathematics or a related field. You must have a minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in Data Science & AI projects (Generative AI, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Time Series). Experience in the energy sector is a plus. You must be able to demonstrate experience of bringing ideas from conceptualization to productionalization using the right tools (e.g. mlflow, kubeflow, tensorlight, etc). You must also be able to showcase a very strong expertise in data collection, cleaning, and preprocessing, and wrangling. You should be fluent in either R, or Python; both is preferred, and familiarity with golang is a plus. You must have strong experience using a variety of machine learning techniques, methods, and can rationally and scientifically decide when to use what. You should have at least 5 years of experience in building computer vision-based product. You should be able to apply transfer learning on models like, Yolo, ViT, ResNet, Unet, AlexNet, etc. You must be able to build object detection models, face/gesture recognition, and identification engines. You must have the ability to design, develop and deploy systems based on GenAI technology. You must be proficient in deep learning tools keras, tensorflow and pytorch. You must have deep knowledge and understanding of Large Language and Vision Model Transformer Architectures. You must have the ability to design, develop and deploy systems based on GenAI technology. You should be experienced in Information Retrieval (Content Recommendation, Search Metrics, Search Query, document classification, entity recognition, topic modelling, etc). You should be proficient in transfer learning and in fine tuning open-sourced transformers models such as LAMA, Mistral, Gemma, LLAVA, QWen and Intern. You should have least 5 years of experience in building time series forecasting models. You should be expert in time series forecasting models and in using technologies like LSTMs, Prophet, and time series analysis. You should be proficient in using sklearn pandas, numpy, plotly, seaborn, and relevant R libraries if R is their preferred language.

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly. At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.

Job ID: 15496

Tagged as: Corporate Digital Factory Dept

Term: 12 months

Client Location: Jeddah Head Office, Al-Baghdadiyah Al-Gharbiyah, Jeddah 22233, Saudi Arabia

Division: Banking & Technology

Relevant Experience: 10+ years in a similar role, ideally with financial services

Mandatory Requirements: Python, R, SAS programming language (SAS 9.4)

Role of Data Scientist

• Strong communication skills and ability to present findings to client stakeholders
• Experience in Financial Services, Banking & Card Payments Industry is a plus
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements
• Document all steps in the development process

• Advanced knowledge of statistical analysis and machine learning
• Highly proficient in SAS programming language (SAS 9.4)
• Proficient in other Data Science programming languages (e.g., Python, R)
• Develop, test, implement, and maintain predictive models
• Segmentation, customer lifetime value analysis
• Identify opportunities to innovatively use data and extract insights from complex data sets

• Owning the outcome (ownership)
• Being driven/passionate about analytics
• Problem-solving mindset, challenging the status quo
• Self-organizing, independent, and takes ownership of each task
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Thrive under pressure

• Time to deployment & value realization from different use cases
• Model accuracy (e.g., RMSE, MAE for regression tasks)
• Number of business problems addressed
• Responsiveness to business questions/problems/requests
• Number of departments/business users supported/adopted the solution
• Stakeholder satisfaction with reports and insights
• Collaboration effectiveness with cross-functional teams
• Data security compliance

• 10+ years in a similar role, ideally with financial services

• Advanced knowledge of statistical analysis and machine learning
• Highly proficient in SAS programming language (SAS 9.4)
• Proficient in other Data Science programming languages (e.g., Python, R)
• Strong communication skills and ability to present findings to senior stakeholders (non-technical)

• Strong communication skills and ability to present findings to client stakeholders
• Experience in Financial Services, Banking & card payments Industry is a plus
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements
• Document all steps in the development process
  
  
  

• Advanced knowledge of statistical analysis and machine learning
• Highly Proficient in SAS programming language (SAS 9.4)
• Proficient is other Data Science programming languages (e.g. Python, R)
• Develop, test, implement, and maintain predictive models
• Segmentation, customer lifetime value
• Identify opportunities to innovatively use data/ extract insights from complex data sets
  
  
  

• Owning the outcome (ownership)
• Being driven/passionate in analytics
• Problem solving mindset, challenging the status quo
• Self-organizing, independent and takes ownership of each task
• Meticulous to detail
• Thrive under pressure
  
  
  

• Time to deployment & value identified/realized/recommended from different use cases.
• Model accuracy (e.g., RMSE, MAE for regression tasks)
• Number of business problems addressed
• Responsiveness to business questions/problems/requests
• Number of departments/business users supported/adopted the solution
• Stakeholder Satisfaction: The level of satisfaction of stakeholders with the reports and insights provided.
• Collaboration Effectiveness: The effectiveness of collaboration with cross-functional teams, measured through the quality of insights extracted.
• Data Security Compliance: Compliance with data security protocols and regulations
  
  
  

• 10years + in a similar role, ideally with financial services
  
  
  

• Advanced knowledge of statistical analysis and machine learning
• Highly Proficient in SAS programming language (SAS 9.4)
• Proficient is other Data Science programming languages (e.g. Python, R)
• Strong communication skills and ability to present findings to senior stakeholders (non technical
  

• 4+ years as a Data Scientist with hands-on experience in building Machine Learning models

• English proficiency. Arabic is an advantage

The Data Scientist will develop and validate predictive models using machine learning techniques. The role involves working with cross-functional teams to develop select use cases.

• Develop and assist in the implementation of predictive models for various business needs, such as proactive retention, identifying affluent customers, customer segmentation, and targeting for marketing campaigns.
• Lead end-to-end data science projects, including data collection, cleaning, preprocessing, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model development, and validation.
• Manage data science projects from problem definition to deployment and maintenance.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define project scope, deliverables, and timelines.
• Work with Data Engineering teams to establish data pipelines and infrastructure for model development and deployment.
• Communicate insights and recommendations to non-technical stakeholders through visualizations, presentations, and reports.
• Coordinate with Mastercard Teams effectively.
• Monitor and analyze project progress continuously.
• Provide comprehensive documentation and plan project handover initiatives.

• Over 4 years of hands-on Data Science experience, focusing on predictive modeling and machine learning, preferably in financial services or related industries.
• Proven experience managing end-to-end data science projects, capable of executing tasks independently once scope is defined.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
• Ability to analyze large datasets, identify trends, and generate actionable insights.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively and influence stakeholders across functions.
• Masters or PhD in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field.

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Job Summary: The Data Scientist will focus on analyzing data to derive actionable insights that drive business decisions. This role involves working with large datasets and applying advanced analytical techniques to develop predictive models and support the data science roadmap.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze telecom data to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies using data stores such as SQL Server and Cloudera over Hive
• Develop and implement predictive models to improve customer experience and network performance
• Design, build, and maintain scalable data science pipelines
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and deliver data-driven solutions
• May participate in optimizing data pipelines, queries, and processes to improve performance and efficiency
• Ensure data quality and integrity throughout the data lifecycle
• Knowledge API exposure and consumption over Dataiku/Python is preferred if possible
• Stay updated with the latest developments in data science technologies and best practices
  
  

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in data analysis or data science in the telecommunications industry
• Knowledge of CRISP-DM methodology
  
  

• Proficiency in SQL, Python is a must while cloudera and MLOps frameworks is a plus
• Strong statistical analysis and modeling skills
• Experience with big data technologies (Hadoop, Cloudera, Spark)
• Knowledge in Geospatial and GIS data analysis and visualization and dealing with GIS files (KQL/KML)
• Familiarity of REST API development which is preferred to be done on Dataiku
• RAG/LLM knowledge
• NLP and Classical Machine Learning Knowledge
  
  

• Proficiency or Certification in Dataiku
• Local GCC experience, preferably Saudi projects
• Experience in the telecommunications industry

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Contract

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting

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Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a ’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are seeking a Data Scientist to join our Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Organization (AI&A).

AI&A, within our Digital transformation office, is dedicated to realize business added value from leveraging the latest technological advancements of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics. We are a center of excellence in Saudi Aramco for Artificial Intelligence technologies and data science.

Your primary role is to identify potential value from data, formulate AI and data science ideas and conceptualize them.

Key Responsibilities

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.
• Mine and analyze data from company data sources to drive optimization and improvement of product development, and business strategies.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to datasets.
• Support ideation endeavors in packaging new ideas/products and preparing them for minimal viable product development.
• Assess AI applicability in enhancing current business processes.

Minimum Requirements

As the successful candidate you must hold a Master of Science or PhD degree in data science, computer science, computer vision, applied mathematics or a related field.

You must have a minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in Data Science & AI projects (Generative AI, Computer Vision, Natural Processing (NLP), Time Series). Experience in the energy sector is a plus.

You must be able to demonstrate experience of bringing ideas from conceptualization to productionalization using the right tools (e.g. mlflow, kubeflow, tensorlight, etc).

You must also be able to showcase a very strong expertise in data collection, cleaning, and preprocessing, and wrangling.

You should be fluent in either R, or Python; both is , and familiarity with golang is a plus.

You must have strong experience using a variety of machine learning techniques, methods, and can rationally and scientifically decide when to use what.

You should have at least 5 years of experience in building computer vision-based product.

You should be able to apply transfer learning on models like, Yolo, ViT, ResNet, Unet, AlexNet, etc.

You must be able to build object detection models, face/gesture recognition, and identification engines.

You must have the ability to design, develop and deploy systems based on GenAI technology.

You must be proficient in deep learning tools keras, tensorflow and pytorch.

You must have deep knowledge and understanding of Large and Vision Model Transformer Architectures.

You must have the ability to design, develop and deploy systems based on GenAI technology.

You should be experienced in Information Retrieval (Content Recommendation, Search Metrics, Search Query, document classification, entity recognition, topic modelling, etc).

You should be proficient in transfer learning and in fine tuning open-sourced transformers models such as LAMA, Mistral, Gemma, LLAVA, QWen and .

You should have least 5 years of experience in building time series forecasting models.

You should be expert in time series forecasting models and in using technologies like LSTMs, Prophet, and time series analysis.

You should be proficient in using sklearn pandas, numpy, plotly, seaborn, and relevant R libraries if R is their .

Job Posting Duration

Job posting start date: 07/01/2025
Job posting end date: 12/31/2025

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.

Bachelors in Computer Application(Computers)

Nationality

Any Nationality

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

We are looking for a Data Scientist to design and develop Machine Learning (ML) models in different domains to find patterns from wide-variety types and large amounts of datasets. You will use mainly Deep Learning techniques (and other ML techniques) to solve different problems in Recommendation Engines, Chatbots, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other domains. We will rely on you to build data products to extract valuable business insights. In this role, you should be highly analytical with a knack for analysis, math and statistics. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential for interpreting data. We also want to see a passion for machine-learning and research. Your goal will be to help our company analyze trends to make better decisions.

We are looking for a Data Scientist to design and develop Machine Learning (ML) models in different domains to find patterns from wide-variety types and large amounts of datasets. You will use mainly Deep Learning techniques (and other ML techniques) to solve different problems in Recommendation Engines, Chatbots, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other domains. We will rely on you to build data products to extract valuable business insights. In this role, you should be highly analytical with a knack for analysis, math and statistics. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential for interpreting data. We also want to see a passion for machine-learning and research. Your goal will be to help our company analyze trends to make better decisions.

• Analyze raw data: assessing quality, cleansing, preprocessing, structuring for downstream processing.
• Conduct research and development activities, data exploration and discovery using Data Science and Machine Learning (ML) practices.
• Develop, apply, test and implement Data Science and ML models for a wide variety of datasets gathered from different data sources such as Online market places, e-commerce platforms, social media, and web sources.
• Design and develop accurate and scalable ML models in different domains and applications, which include, but not limited to, Recommendation engines, Chatbots, NLP, text mining, text-based feature selection/representation, optimization and predictive modeling.
• Utilize a variety of tools and approaches to solve complex business objectives, from Recommendation Engines, Chatbots, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning/ Deep Learning, Image Processing, Speech Processing, Rule-Based Learning and Knowledge Graphs.
• Design new service offerings and solutions in E-Commerce and different fields.
• Keep up to date with latest trends and technologies in the data science and ML fields.
• Work closely with Data Engineers in data related requests, and Data Quality Assurance Officers in data integrity issues.
• Work closely with Business Analysts and product development teams to understand and implement their requirements.
• Collaborate with big data and software developers to translate ideas, models and prototypes into full-fledged solutions.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify challenges and problems and suggest potential AI solutions.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, etc.); graduate degree in Data Science or other quantitative field is preferred.
• At least 2 - 4 years' of experience as a data scientist (quantitative analytics and data modeling).
• Deep understanding of predictive modeling, machine-learning, clustering and classification techniques, and algorithms.
• Experience in ML applications and domains (Recommendation Engines, NLP, Language Models and Chatbots experience is preferred).
• Experience in Deep Learning algorithms and techniques.
• Proficiency in Python (other languages such as Shell Scripts, C++, .Net, Java, Matlab, R,.etc are preferred).-
• Experience in Python libraries (Tensorflow, Keras, Pandas, Sklearn).
• Excellent in Algorithms and Object-Oriented programming.
• Familiarity with database technology (design and implementation) and query language.
• Familiarity with Big Data frameworks and visualization tools (ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark) is preferred.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Medical Health Insurance
• Performance Bonus
• Others

Company Industry

• Internet
• E-commerce
• Dotcom

Department / Functional Area

• IT Software

Keywords

• Data Scientist

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This position requires relocation to Saudi Arabia for 12 months.

We are seeking a highly capable Data Scientist with expertise in machine learning and GenAI to solve high-impact, telco-specific business problems. The ideal candidate will design and implement AI models using customer usage, location, and billing data, while ensuring that insights are actionable and integrated into operational workflows.

• Design and implement AI/ML models tailored to telecom use cases such as churn prediction, usage forecasting, customer segmentation, and fraud detection.
• Extract, engineer, and select relevant features from structured and unstructured data sources including mobile usage, location, and billing data .
• Develop and deploy automated pipelines for model training, retraining, monitoring, and performance evaluation in production environments.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, CVM teams, and data engineers to operationalize models and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Apply Generative AI techniques where appropriate to improve campaign personalization, chatbots, or other customer engagement tools.
• Continuously monitor and improve model performance using feedback loops and business KPIs.
• Document models, code, and experiments for reproducibility and governance.

• 5–6 years of experience in machine learning , data science , and production-grade model development .
• Hands-on experience with Python , Scikit-learn , TensorFlow , PyTorch , or similar ML frameworks .
• Solid understanding of model lifecycle , ML Ops , and tools like Airflow , MLflow , or Kubeflow .
• Experience working with large-scale telco datasets , including CDRs, billing systems, and network data.
• Strong in feature engineering , data preprocessing , and model evaluation techniques.
• Exposure to Generative AI (GenAI) models and applications (e.g., GPT, BERT, diffusion models) is required.
• Knowledge of SQL , Spark , or Hadoop environments is a plus.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related discipline (Master’s preferred).
• Prior experience in a telecom or digital services environment.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.