Senior Data Scientist - Knowledge Graphs & AI Research

SAP IT Business Systeme; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 148.000 - 306.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

SAP Research & Innovation North America in Palo Alto seeks a Senior Data & Applied Scientist to own end-to-end research on ontologies and knowledge graphs. You will develop methods and benchmarks, prototype products with engineering teams, and contribute to publications or open-source releases.

The role emphasizes strong ML foundations, Python/SQL, and experience with graphs, LLMs, and enterprise data. Hybrid work with travel up to 10% is expected.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years hands-on data science or a PhD plus 2+ years
• Knowledge graphs, ontologies or semantic layers: RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL, or property graphs with Cypher
• Entity resolution, schema matching or data integration
• Machine learning on relational, graph or tabular data, including GNNs
• LLM systems over structured data: text-to-SQL, schema linking and API discovery, GraphRAG, agents, evaluation
• Solid foundations in ML and statistics, with disciplined experimentation
• Strong Python and SQL, and PyTorch or a similar framework; at ease with large, messy, multi-table data

Aufgaben

• Own research thread end to end from open question to reproducible result and prototype
• Reproduce promising papers on SAP data within weeks and recommend bigger bets
• Develop methods to learn and maintain ontologies of business objects, processes, rules and actions
• Graph-augmented retrieval and text-to-query agents over large schemas with business-rule checks
• Models that learn from relational data using graph neural networks and knowledge graphs
• Create datasets, benchmarks and evaluation harnesses on enterprise data
• Publish research or open-source releases and build prototypes with product and engineering teams

Kenntnisse

Knowledge graphs/ontologies/semantic

Entity resolution/schema matching

ML on relational/graph/tabular data (G

LLM systems over structured data

Ausbildung

MS/PhD in CS/ML/stats/math or equivalent

Tools

Python

SQL

PyTorch

Jobbeschreibung

SAP Research & Innovation North America in Palo Alto seeks a Senior Data & Applied Scientist to own end-to-end research on ontologies and knowledge graphs. You will develop methods and benchmarks, prototype products with engineering teams, and contribute to publications or open-source releases.

The role emphasizes strong ML foundations, Python/SQL, and experience with graphs, LLMs, and enterprise data. Hybrid work with travel up to 10% is expected.