Associate AI Scientist / AI Scientist - SAP Labs Singapore - Grad May / June 2025

SAP SE; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in business applications is looking for an Associate AI Scientist / AI Scientist to join its Singapore team. You will work on cutting-edge projects in artificial intelligence, collaborating with global experts. The ideal candidate has a strong background in AI and machine learning, aiming to deliver innovative AI products.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working models

Caring team environment

Qualifications

• 0 to 3 years of experience as a data scientist, preferable in enterprise software.
• Publication track record in deep learning, machine learning, etc.
• Proficient in modern deep learning concepts and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Push boundaries in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
• Implement recent technologies for data science problems.
• Create accurate and scalable data science models.

Skills

Deep Learning

Machine Learning

Data Science

Programming in Python

Problem Solving

Agile/Scrum

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Undergraduate or Post-Graduate specialization in Artificial Intelligence

Tools

TensorFlow

Scikit-learn

Keras

Job description

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

*SAP will be prioritizing candidates with full working rights in Singapore.*

About SAP

A market leader in end-to-end business application software, SAP helps more than 425,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift societies, and sustain our environment. Because it’s the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people’s lives. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together.

SAP Labs Singapore is the 20th engineering hub in the SAP Labs Network and is the newest innovation hub at SAP that drives product leadership, fosters the best talent, and aims to boost ecosystem and community engagement with a variety of initiatives.

SAP Labs Singapore has the ambition to expand significantly and become the Embedded Artificial Intelligence Hub for SAP, leveraging on core competencies in the current teams.

Your future team

Artificial Intelligence team as part of SAP Labs Singapore has experienced professionals taking on challenges posed by the SAP customers. Based in Singapore, you will have the opportunity to work on breakthrough projects addressing real-world problems, challenging norms with some of the SAP’s key customers. As part of the global product engineering team, you will participate in rich and engaging conversations with experts around the globe.

SAP Labs Singapore provides an open, modern working environment and the opportunity to become part of the global SAP engineering community.

Purpose and objectives

As an Associate AI Scientist / AI Scientist, you will work together with a team of dedicated experts including AI developers, data engineers, dev-ops engineers, and architects with a single goal of building the best-in-class AI products. You will work against fixed timelines and your success will be measured by the ability to deliver solutions matching the performance of top-notch artificial intelligence systems.

Applicants with relevant experience may be considered for AI Scientist role.

Expectations and tasks

Your tasks include:

Push the frontiers of what is possible in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning so as to create new solutions

Explore, understand, and implement most recent technologies and approaches for data science problems

Comfortably handle multi-terabyte data sets in scale-up and scale-out environments

Strive for state-of-the art, highly accurate and scalable data science models

Understand business processes which create and consume data to be able to select best approaches, evaluate their performance and assess business relevance

Create excellence both in terms of results quality and system scalability through continuous evaluation, analysis, and refinement of the system implementation

Communicate the relevance of implemented systems and achieved results in a visual and consistent way

Work closely with the team, customers, and partners to holistically understand business and user requirements and derive adequate application development concepts

Performing quality assurance tasks

Solve complex regression issues

Ability to work in global teams with different time zones

Immerse yourself quickly into new topics, terminology, and development tasks

Educational and experience requirements

Required

Undergraduate or Post-Graduate specialization in Artificial Intelligence or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent fields

0 to 3 years of working experience as data scientist, preferrable with an enterprise software or cloud application companies

Publication track record on deep learning, machine learning, large language, and foundational models

Proficient knowledge and track record of applying modern deep learning concepts

Track record of developing novel learning algorithms or systems

Experience with machine and deep learning software packages & libraries such as Caffe, Torch, Theano, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-learn, DeepLearning4j, GPT;

Hands-on with programming languages such as Python, C++, Java, Scala

Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies

Strong desire to overcome obstacles and make your work benefit SAP's customers

Excellent written and communication skills in English language

Optional

Operational knowledge of Linux distributions such as Redhat, Ubuntu, SUSE

Data Science experience in Large Language Models, Generative Pre-trained Transformer models, foundational models etc.

Job Segment: Data Science, AI Developer, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.

SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: [e-mail] .

For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Requisition ID: 418177| Work Area: Software-Research| Expected Travel: 0 - 10%| Career Status: Graduate| Employment Type: Regular Full Time| Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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