Senior Data Scientist (f/m/d)

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

What you'll do

Summary: The Cross Cloud & Data Engineering (CCDE) Unit within the Global Cloud Infrastructure & Delivery (GCID) organization is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to optimize SAP’s cloud infrastructure. A successful candidate will adopt, design, and develop innovative and efficient artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and data-driven algorithms with a focus on delivering results. This role also encompasses extracting concepts and actionable insights from the cloud infrastructure and cost data, providing cutting-edge AI/GenAI solutions that ensure quality for our business purposes and ongoing projects, while considering delivery timelines. Your work will closely align with the production and core AI development team to provide strong and dependable solutions for SAP’s cloud infrastructure and cost efficiency.

The Role: This team is responsible for AI-based initiatives and developing AI solutions for our cloud infrastructure management, especially in the area of cost optimization. The main focus is to expand our toolset functionalities using AI capabilities. This role is for a senior data scientist who will undertake innovations towards crafting novel AI/GenAI solutions for individual problems and at scale for complex interrelated problems, and execute their implementations in cooperation with the engineering team. Successful candidates are creative, highly skilled, and motivated persons who work well in a team setting and take a practical approach from conception to deployment while ensuring the quality of results. You will work directly with our AI developers and architects to build and lead the technical solutions, methods, and algorithms that should be adopted for our business goals in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment. Continuous learning and growth in new technical areas will be crucial, as well as working in agile, cross-functional teams.

What you bring

Required:

• Master’s or PhD’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field
• Proven extensive industry experience in driving, designing, and developing AI/GenAI and ML solutions for challenging and complex problems (digital assistant, time series prediction, anomaly detection, etc.), particularly in the area of cloud infrastructure optimization
• Proven track record of experience in transformer-based models, particularly LLMs, finetuning techniques, RAG, and prompt engineering
• Experience with building data pipelines for LLMs, object stores, and vector databases
• Proficiency in Python programming; R, Java, C/C++, Scala, etc. are plus
• Strong experience with industry-leading AI/ML libraries and frameworks (PyTorch, Hugging Face, TensorFlow, etc.), as well as proficiency in working with streaming data
• Good cloud infrastructure knowledge
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, performance, and quality
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively convey holistic solutions and complex technical concepts, visualizing and presenting results to stakeholders
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Nice to haves:

• Experience in big data management and database systems
• Experience in large-scale and distributed systems development

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

Requisition ID: 408447 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Part Time or Regular Full Time | #LI-Hybrid