Senior Research Scientist - AI Agent Evaluation

SERVICENOW SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking a Senior Research Scientist in India to build and scale the evaluation layer for AI agents, scoring agent traces, and turning outputs into actionable insights for customers.

You will own end-to-end features from research questions to shipped pipelines, including data curation, benchmarking, and integration with customer-facing evaluation. Strong Python, ML/AI, and LLM API experience are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in ML, applied AI, prompt engineering, or agentic AI with real user impact.
• Strong Python skills and production experience.
• Design evaluation methodologies and benchmarks for agents.
• Experience shipping features to users.
• Hands-on with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, cost and latency tradeoffs.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Claude code, Windsurf, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Design evaluation methodologies and benchmarks for agent reasoning, planning, tool use, reliability, and safety across LLM-as-a-Judge, trajectory-based, and human evaluation.
• Take problems from research question to prototype to shipped feature, owning them end to end.
• Build and harden the pipelines and scoring logic behind customer-facing evaluation.
• Curate synthetic and real-world datasets; measure the evaluator for consistency and agreement with human labels.

Skills

ML experience

Python

LLM APIs

Prompt engineering

Agentic AI

Context engineering

Evaluation design

Communication

AI tools

Tools

Claude code

Windsurf

Job description

Senior Research Scientist, Agent Evaluation Company Description

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started. Join us to put AI to work for people.

Job Description

We build the evaluation layer that validates AI agents before they reach customers — an automated system that scores across large volumes of agent traces. You'll own core parts of that platform: the pipeline that runs traces through model-based judges at scale, and the scoring logic that turns raw output into results teams can act on.

What you'll do

• Design evaluation methodologies and benchmarks for agent reasoning, planning, tool use, reliability, and safety — across LLM-as-a-Judge, trajectory-based, and human evaluation.
• Take problems from research question to prototype to shipped feature, owning them end to end.
• Build and harden the pipelines and scoring logic behind customer-facing evaluation.
• Curate synthetic and real-world datasets; measure the evaluator itself for consistency and agreement with human labels.

Qualifications

• What we're looking for
• 5+ years in ML, applied AI, prompt engineering, agentic AI, including shipping something real to users.
• Strong Python skills.
• Practical depth in agentic AI and context engineering: planning, reasoning, memory, tool use, retrieval, long-context.
• Experience designing evaluation methodologies, not just running evaluations.
• Hands-on production work with LLM APIs — prompt engineering, structured output, cost and latency tradeoffs.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Good to have Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Claude code, Windsurf, or similar).

Additional Information

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Experience Level Senior Level