Location
Zaferaniyeh, Tehran (On-site: 44 hours/week).
About the Team
We use data science to uncover financial patterns in Dubai’s real estate market—turning raw, messy data into clear signals for pricing, risk, and growth. Our work spans data ingestion and quality, geospatial enrichment, forecasting, experimentation, and decision support.
About this Role
You’ll design and build end-to-end analytics for Dubai property markets—assembling datasets, crafting features, and shipping models that forecast prices/rents, estimate risk/returns, and detect market regimes. You’ll balance statistical rigor with product pragmatism, and translate findings into dashboards, APIs, and narratives stakeholders can act on.
In this role, you will
- Build robust data pipelines for property transactions, listings, rentals, valuations, macro indicators, and geospatial layers (e.g., neighborhoods, transit, POIs).
- Engineer features for real estate finance such as yields/cap rates, NOI, absorption, vacancy, time-on-market, proximity scores.
- Develop and productionize models like hedonic/GLM, gradient-boosted trees, time-series (ARIMA/Prophet), regime detection, clustering/segmentation.
- Perform scenario analysis and Monte Carlo, cash flows, and sensitivity to rates.
- Detect anomalies and data issues (outliers, spoofed listings, stale comps).
- Ship decision tools such as valuation and rent estimators, demand heatmaps, neighborhood indices, and risk dashboards with clear confidence intervals.
- Document methods, communicate insights simply, and create reproducible analyses.
You might thrive in this role if you
- Have strong experience (3+ years) of applied data science/analytics experience and strong Python/SQL skills (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn; plus a BI tool of your choice).
- Comfortable with statistics/econometrics (inference, causal ideas, time-series).
- Understand real estate finance concepts (cap rate, yield, IRR/NPV) and can tie them to model features and KPIs.
- Work well with geospatial data (GeoPandas/PostGIS) and accessibility metrics.
- Can take analyses to production—versioned data, feature stores, scheduled jobs, model serving, and monitoring.
- Communicate clearly in English and enjoy collaborating across product, and design.
- Bring a learning mindset, and enjoy fast-moving environments!
Nice to have
- Experience with Dubai data sources and context (e.g., DLD/RERA datasets).
- Cloud data stacks (BigQuery/Redshift), orchestration (Airflow), and streaming (Kafka).
- Forecasting at scale, gradient boosting, probabilistic modeling, or causal inference.
- GIS tools (QGIS), map rendering, and spatial indexing.
- NLP for listing dedup and attribute extraction.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours.
- Competitive compensation with growth tied to measurable impact.
- Performance bonuses based on outcomes and ROI.
- Relocation to Dubai, UAE available contingent on funding and core-team status.
- Close-knit team with a friendly, supportive culture.