SAP

Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Research & Innovation Team

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2 days ago
Stanford, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$131k - $272k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to research, prototype development, and AI startup evaluations with lead machine learning engineers.
  • Develop and optimize models through training, continued pretraining, reinforcement learning, fine-tuning, LoRA, and novel approaches.
  • Create high-level requirements and software designs.
  • Contribute to research papers and publications.
  • Participate in software design, architectural and coding best practices, and code reviews.
  • Support the full machine learning lifecycle, including data collection, annotation, modeling, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Develop data-driven microservices, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud-based machine learning solutions.

Requirements

  • Master of Science degree in software engineering or a related field.
  • At least 5 years of professional experience as a machine learning engineer or developer.
  • At least 2 years of professional experience optimizing and serving machine learning models.
  • Strong expertise in agentic engineering, AI tooling, terminal agents, agentic harnesses, and context engineering.
  • Experience with SAP BTP and SAP AI Core.
  • Strong expertise in Java, Python, or JavaScript.
  • Experience with PyTorch and TensorFlow.
  • Experience with data-driven microservices, APIs, data pipelines, Docker containers, Kubernetes, and a cloud provider.
  • Fluent English communication and the ability to collaborate in an agile team environment.

Benefits

  • Flexible working models, health and well-being support, inclusion programs, professional development, and personal growth opportunities.
  • Regular full-time employment with 0–10% expected travel.
  • Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the posting.
  • SAP North America benefits are available subject to eligibility requirements.

Categories

AI ResearchML Engineering
SAP

About SAP

10,000+ employees

SAP builds enterprise application software and cloud services for finance, procurement, supply chain, human resources, and analytics, sold through subscriptions, licenses, and support. Its portfolio includes SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Ariba, and SAP SuccessFactors. Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is a public company listed on the NYSE and Frankfurt (ETR) and serves enterprises and public-sector organizations worldwide.

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