Principal Applied Scientist — Industrial AI & Production

Siemens; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the science on a major capability area and deliver production-ready models. You will work closely with engineers and product managers to translate research into product.

This senior individual contributor role demands ownership of end-to-end research pipelines, collaboration across teams, and rigorous evaluation in industrial environments. Join a team solving hard AI problems at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in applied ML, AI research, or data science with production impact.
• Strong foundation in ML theory and practice across training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks.
• Experience taking research to production.

Responsibilities

• Own one or more scientific capability areas end to end, e.g., perception, language and agents, time series, control, planning, or evaluation.
• Translate ambiguous requirements into research questions, hypotheses, and success metrics.
• Lead applied research projects: literature review, method selection, experimentation, ablation, error analysis, productization.
• Build and run evaluation pipelines: offline metrics, online experiments, robustness in industrial conditions.
• Collaborate with engineers to productionize models: data readiness, training infra, inference, observability.
• Make scientific tradeoffs with evidence for team decisions.
• Identify scaling challenges: data quality, drift, latency, throughput, cost, safety.
• Raise the bar on experimentation rigor, reproducibility, and documentation.
• Apply responsible AI practices: bias detection, model risk, human-in-the-loop controls.

Skills

Applied ML production

Python programming

ML frameworks

Cross-functional collab

Communication

System-level thinking

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

Job description

Siemens in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the science on a major capability area and deliver production-ready models. You will work closely with engineers and product managers to translate research into product.

This senior individual contributor role demands ownership of end-to-end research pipelines, collaboration across teams, and rigorous evaluation in industrial environments. Join a team solving hard AI problems at scale.