Senior Research Engineer - Applied AI/ML

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.

You’ll 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 & growth experiments.
• 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 pipelines.