Data Scientist (NLP/Search)

Location: Istanbul / Maslak, Turkey; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global Tech enables e-commerce through technology and builds search and language-intelligence solutions for customers across multiple markets.

What you will do

• Develop multilingual query-understanding capabilities, including spelling correction, normalization, rewriting, intent detection, and semantic retrieval.
• Build and evaluate vector-search, embedding, and retrieval models to improve product-discovery relevance.
• Lead Arabic-language search initiatives addressing dialect variation, morphology, transliteration, mixed-language queries, and spelling errors.
• Analyze search queries, product content, user interactions, and linguistic signals across large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
• Design offline evaluation methods and quality metrics, validate improvements through online A/B experiments, and monitor post-deployment performance.
• Collaborate with Search, Pre-Search, Ranking, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver scalable machine-learning solutions and improve production quality, latency, reliability, and deployment cycles.

Requirements

• Experience in applied data science and machine learning, preferably in NLP, information retrieval, search, or language modeling.
• Professional working proficiency in Arabic, including Arabic grammar, morphology, spelling conventions, dialectal variation, and search-query behavior.
• Experience with transformer-based language models, text embeddings, semantic search, retrieval, reranking, query understanding, or spelling correction.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with practical experience using machine-learning libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, or Hugging Face Transformers.
• Experience with A/B experiments, offline evaluation, statistical analysis, and ambiguous product problems.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

Nice to have

• Native-level Arabic proficiency.
• Experience with Arabic NLP resources, datasets, tokenization, or normalization approaches.
• Experience with vector databases, approximate nearest-neighbor search, embedding models, or large-scale retrieval systems.
• Experience in e-commerce, marketplaces, search, recommendation, or self-service platforms.
• Turkish language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with flexibility, including work-from-abroad opportunities and a summer working model.
• Customisable FlexBenefits budget covering meals, health insurance, fuel support, and shopping credits.
• Well-being support including doctors, psychologist and dietitian services, and HPV vaccination.
• Annual training and conference allowance, learning-platform access, and in-person learning sessions.
• International collaboration with colleagues across offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, Dubai, and other locations.
• Ownership from day one, mentoring, team rituals, events, and opportunities for professional growth.