Senior ML Engineer – AI Prototyping & Research (Hybrid)

SAP SE; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP SE is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for its Research & Innovation team in the Silicon Valley region. You will work with MLE leads on AI prototypes, research projects, and startup evaluations, shaping cutting-edge ML methods and scalable deployments.

You'll contribute to model training, evaluation, and lifecycle processes while collaborating across frontend, backend, and AI engineering teams in a fast-paced, research-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Master of Science degree in Software Engineering or related field.
• Strong expertise in agentic engineering, latest AI tooling, terminal agents, agentic harnesses, context engineering.
• Experience in developing data-driven microservices, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, Data pipelines, TDD, hands-on experience with docker containers and Kubernetes, familiar with one of the cloud providers.
• At least 5+ years of professional experience as an MLE or developer.
• Experience working with SAP BTP & SAP AI Core.
• At least 2+ years of professional experience optimizing and serving Machine Learning models.
• Experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Ability to work in an agile environment using SCRUM methodology.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills and fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with lead MLEs contributing to research, prototype development, and startup evaluations.
• Work on model training, continued pretraining, RL, fine-tuning, LoRA and novel approaches.
• Create high level requirements and designs.
• Contribute to research papers and publication.
• Follow and help define architectural / coding best practices and participate in software design and code reviews with a diverse team.
• Contribute to all processes of the ML lifecycle: data collection, annotation, modeling, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.

Education

Master of Science in Software Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PyTorch

TensorFlow

CI/CD

Data pipelines

Job description

SAP SE is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for its Research & Innovation team in the Silicon Valley region. You will work with MLE leads on AI prototypes, research projects, and startup evaluations, shaping cutting-edge ML methods and scalable deployments.

You'll contribute to model training, evaluation, and lifecycle processes while collaborating across frontend, backend, and AI engineering teams in a fast-paced, research-driven environment.