Senior Applied Scientist - Industrial AI & Production Systems

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

Job summary

Siemens Mobility is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to lead science on a major capability area, collaborating with engineers and product managers to translate research into production-ready models. This is a senior IC role requiring hands-on modeling, rigorous evaluation, and strong communication within cross-functional teams.

You will own end-to-end capability areas, drive research projects, and ensure robust deployment pipelines with attention to data readiness, latency, and safety in

Qualifications

• 8+ years in applied machine learning, AI research, or data science with models shipped to production.
• Strong foundation in machine learning theory and practice across training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks and toolchains.

Responsibilities

• Own one or more scientific capability areas end to end, for example perception, computer vision, language and agents, time series, control, planning, or evaluation.
• Lead applied research projects: literature review, method selection, experimentation, ablation, error analysis, and productization.
• Build and run evaluation pipelines: offline metrics, online experiments, robustness testing in industrial conditions.
• Work with engineers to take models into production-grade pipelines: data readiness, training infrastructure, inference, observability.
• Raise the bar on experimentation rigor, reproducibility, and documentation across the team.
• Apply responsible AI practices in your work: bias detection, model risk management, human-in-the-loop controls.
• Demonstrated experience taking research from a paper or prototype into a production model.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineers, product managers, and senior leaders.

Skills

ML experience

Python

Production models

Collaboration

Written communication

Job description

Siemens Mobility is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to lead science on a major capability area, collaborating with engineers and product managers to translate research into production-ready models. This is a senior IC role requiring hands-on modeling, rigorous evaluation, and strong communication within cross-functional teams.

You will own end-to-end capability areas, drive research projects, and ensure robust deployment pipelines with attention to data readiness, latency, and safety in