Principal Data Scientist, AI & Enterprise Knowledge

SAP SE; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP Research & Innovation North America in Palo Alto is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to define and lead research toward AI-enabled business data understanding. You will partner with product teams to ship results, pilots, and benchmarks, mentoring scientists and coordinating university collaborations.

You will drive research on graph-based knowledge, ontologies, and LLM systems over structured data, contributing to SAP Knowledge Graph and related platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in applied research or a PhD with impactful research leading to product or platform changes.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead SAP Research toward AI-enabled business data understanding.
• Collaborate with product teams to ship results and pilots.
• Track emerging research topics and test on SAP data.
• Mentor scientists and co-operate with universities.

Skills

Knowledge graphs

Ontologies

Relational/graph ML

LLM systems over structured data

Python

SQL

Graph foundation models

Research leadership

Education

PhD in CS/ML or related field

MS/PhD with product-impact research

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

SPARQL

SQL tooling

Job description

SAP Research & Innovation North America in Palo Alto is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to define and lead research toward AI-enabled business data understanding. You will partner with product teams to ship results, pilots, and benchmarks, mentoring scientists and coordinating university collaborations.

You will drive research on graph-based knowledge, ontologies, and LLM systems over structured data, contributing to SAP Knowledge Graph and related platforms.