Senior Data & AI Scientist, Finance & Spend

SAP SE; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits

Flexible working models

Health and well‑being

Job summary

SAP seeks a Senior Data and Applied Scientist for Finance and Spend in Palo Alto. You will design semantic models, build AI capabilities, and integrate with SAP data platforms to support SAP's AI agents and business processes.

Required: 5+ years in knowledge engineering or applied AI, advanced degree, strong Python/SQL, and GenAI/RAG experience. Hybrid work with global teams in a scaling enterprise.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in knowledge engineering, semantic data systems, applied AI, or data science.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise ontologies and semantic models for AI agents.
• Build AI capabilities including embeddings and vector databases for production use.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deploy AI solutions in finance and spend processes.

Skills

Python

SQL

GenAI

RAG

Knowledge graphs

Education

Master's or PhD in CS

Tools

Databricks

SAP Datasphere

SAP HANA Cloud

GCP

AWS

Job description

SAP seeks a Senior Data and Applied Scientist for Finance and Spend in Palo Alto. You will design semantic models, build AI capabilities, and integrate with SAP data platforms to support SAP's AI agents and business processes.

Required: 5+ years in knowledge engineering or applied AI, advanced degree, strong Python/SQL, and GenAI/RAG experience. Hybrid work with global teams in a scaling enterprise.