# Engineering Manager - Applied AI

Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, talabat, the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app for everyday deliveries, has been offering convenience and reliability to its customers. talabat’s local roots run deep, offering a real understanding of the needs of the communities we serve in eight countries across the region. We harness innovative technology and knowledge to simplify everyday life for our customers, optimize operations for our restaurants and local shops, and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities daily. Here at talabat, we are building a high performance culture through engaged workforce and growing talent density. We're all about keeping it real and making a difference. Our 6,000+ strong talabaty are on an awesome mission to spread positive vibes. We are proud to be a multi great place to work award winner. About the Applied AI Tribe The Applied AI Tribe is talabat's internal AI engine, a team obsessed with turning cutting-edge AI into genuine, measurable business value. We don't build AI for its own sake. Our north star is Net AI Value Delivered. We have shipped 40+ AI products across four strategic streams: - Product & Tech Platform - AI capabilities e

- **Id**: 3737812
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/talabat-engineering-manager-applied-ai>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- **Countries**: AE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T08:53:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T11:48:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7555
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Delivery

## Company

- **Id**: 48652
- **Name**: Talabat
- **Domain**: talabat.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/talabat>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 21
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LightGBM** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI SDK** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **Transformers** — Optional: no
- **XGBoost** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T10:32:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 21
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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