Associate, Domain Expert - MENA

Domain Expert Dataminr's Domain Experts work with Dataminr's AI platform in real time ensuring the alerts and intelligence we send to our clients are of the best possible quality. Domain Experts use deep human expertise to examine and analyze our data feeds and annotate, label, and edit signals in real time. You will be an integral part of our algorithm training process and our advanced realtime human-AI feedback loop that integrates key knowledge domains into our AI models and develops our AI platform. As a Domain Expert, you will also play a key role in defining new factors to improve our alerts, data source coverage, machine learning, AI models, and AI tooling. This role is open as remote (United Kingdom or Ireland) or hybrid, and requires the ability to work core hours of 7:00 am - 3:00 pm GMT in a real-time information environment. Please note that this role requires rotational weekend work as well as projects and meetings outside of business hours. AI Innovation at Dataminr Working at Dataminr you'll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold. Regenerative AI: our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events unfold. Agentic AI: we recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we're calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real-time events, threats, and risks allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what's happening on the ground. Multimodal AI: our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages). The Opportunity Serve as an expert on the Middle East and North Africa, the related geopolitical developments and the relevant data sources associated with the region to improve our AI models Monitor and analyse the quality of our data feeds Annotate and label complex real time events, making real-time decisions with incomplete data Own and develop projects to improve performance of AI models and AI tooling in the real time event detection space Collaborate and communicate about daily priorities in a team-centric environment What You Bring At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don't meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed. Bachelor's degree required, ideally with a concentration in: Political science, Middle Eastern studies, security/conflict studies, or a closely related field strongly preferred Ability to monitor and analyze data with strong online research skills in a fast-paced environment in Arabic and English; Farsi, Hebrew, or Turkish languages a plus An understanding of geopolitical risk and world events, coupled with a passion for breaking news, current world events, technology, and a great understanding of both social media and publicly-available data Ability to interpret and succinctly describe ongoing, complex events with incomplete data Fluency with AI tools and LLMs, and experience using them to solve problems, improve workflows, and make efficiencies Enthusiastic approach to innovation and strategic thinking Ideally, previous experience of working in a real-time information environment Dataminr