Senior AI Scientist

Requisition

Work Area:
Software-Development Operations

Expected Travel: 0%

Career Status: Professional

Employment Type:

Regular Full Time

Career Level:

T3-2

Additional Locations:

Original Posting Date: 04/20/2026

Job Title:

Senior AI Scientist

Location:

Bellevue, WA

Work Model:
Hybrid Work Model

Purpose and Objective:

SAP Labs, LLC seeks a Senior AI Scientist at our Bellevue, WA location responsible for development of new Machine Learning models and optimization of existing ML models.

Expectations and Tasks:

Understand and responsible for the implementation of the most recent machine learning algorithm and approaches. Ensure performance and system scalability through initiating an fostering continuous collaboration with development teams. Work through business problems from beginning to end. Understand research insights and adequate concepts for SAP's customers. Lead small project teams. Collect requirements and coordinates the machine learning development. Communicate the relevance of implemented systems and achieved results in a visual and consistent way across levels.

Show initiative and explore new use cases and applications of machine learning.

Education and Occupational

Experience:

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field of study and six (6) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, a Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field of study and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Qualifications/Skills and Competencies

Experience:

Experience must include three (3) years involving each of the following:

* Utilizing graphs for large scale machine learning application;

* Developing graph-based ML models including Graph

SAGE, GAT, or Graph Transformers;

* Cloud-based ML development platforms including AWS and Azure;

* Big data processing frameworks and relational data processing tools including Spark, MYSQL, HIVE, and Hadoop;

* Legacy tabular models including development and deployment;

* LLM and Generative AI framework including LLM-fine-tune and RAG; and

* NLP applications.

Travel: N/A.

This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program subject to the eligibility criteria outlined in the