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Data and AI contract jobs in Abu Dhabi

Here are the latest data and AI contract jobs in Abu Dhabi that Freelance Radar found on LinkedIn. For every job you contact the person hiring directly, with no job board in between. There are 15 contract jobs live right now, and the list is updated continuously.

Updated on 17 October 2026

15

contract jobs live

+14

this week

Experienced Data Scientist (5-7 years AI/ML engineering) for a 3-month contract in Abu Dhabi, with hands-on Python, TensorFlow/PyTorch, RAG/MCP, MLOps (MLflow), SQL/NoSQL and Jira/Agile/CI/CD experien…

12-month onsite contract in Abu Dhabi for a Data Scientist with 5+ years experience in statistics, ML/DL, RAG/MCP, Python, TensorFlow/PyTorch, SQL/NoSQL, MLOps (MLflow, GitLab, Docker, CI/CD) and defe…

Power BI Developer

6-month extendable contract for a locally available Power BI Developer in Abu Dhabi to build interactive dashboards, data models, DAX calculations and Power Query transformations for BI reporting.

Data Scientist needed for a 3 month contract, possibly extendable depending on project, supporting a leading Defense client in Abu Dhabi.

A leading Defense organisation in Abu Dhabi seeks a Data Scientist for a 3-month contract with possible extension dependent on the project.

Define domain data architecture, canonical models and event schemas for modular banking APIs and Lean Core operating model, including MDM, data governance, API payload design and BIAN semantics; 12-mo…

Palantir Foundry Engineer

Palantir Foundry engineer with 5+ years experience required for a yearly renewable contract in Abu Dhabi, strong in data engineering, software and platform engineering, large-scale data platforms, dat…

Principal Product Designer – AI/GenAI, UI/UX & Visual Design

6-month extendable contract for a hands-on Principal/Lead IC product designer to work on AI/GenAI products, UI/UX, visual and interaction design, design systems and high-fidelity prototyping in Figma,…

Lead Data Scientist

Contract hire under IDC employment and visa sponsorship for a Lead Data Scientist with 10-15 years of hands-on experience, onsite in Abu Dhabi.

Contract hire under IDC employment and visa sponsorship for a Data Scientist with 3-7 years of hands-on experience, onsite in Abu Dhabi.

Data Engineer – Digital Transformation (DX)

Contract hire Data Engineer to build and maintain data pipelines and ETL, integrate plant and enterprise data, manage data warehouses/lakes and set data governance standards for an Oil & Gas digital t…

Abu Dhabi · AED 11,000 per month

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

12-month contract in Abu Dhabi to own ML products end-to-end: train, fine-tune and deploy classical and LLM models to production, build training/evaluation pipelines, work with MLOps on serving and mo…

SAP BusinessObjects / Power BI Developer

6-month contract in Abu Dhabi for an experienced BI developer to build and support SAP BusinessObjects universes, Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence reports and Power BI dashboards, with a focus on reg…

12-month onsite contract in Abu Dhabi for a Data Scientist with Python, ML/DL, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, NLP, Transformers, Hugging Face, Pandas, SQL, Spark, MLflow, Docker and REST APIs; UAE…

Hiring an experienced Data Scientist (7-10 years) for a 12-month onsite contract in Abu Dhabi, requiring Python, machine learning, deep learning (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn), NLP, Transformers,…