Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer

Company: SAP SE
Location: Newport Beach
Posted on: May 3, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Machine Learning Software EngineerAt 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. How? 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.Summary:We are searching for a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in ML application development to join our newly formed team working on Generative AI and Foundation Models development for ABAP in Newport Beach. This dynamic team is at the forefront of SAP's cloud transformation efforts, leveraging large language models to accelerate our customers' data and code transformation. The team collaborates closely with established teams in Europe and India, various SAP stakeholders, UC Irvine, and early adopter customers. You will play a key role working with data scientists of ABAP Foundation Model teams globally to build ML based solutions for our customers.What you'll do: - Contribute to the development of internal tools and libraries for LLM development and deployment - Develop data pipelines for preprocessing, training, and evaluating language models - Build, optimize and maintain software solutions for automation and data management for training AI/ML models especially large language models (LLMs). - Collaboration: Work closely with data scientists and stakeholders and manage cross-functional relationships to align infrastructure among teams.What you bring: - Educational Background: PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related field. - Experience: 5+ years of experience in software development for ML applications - Technical Proficiency: Expertise in LLM model training and data pipeline construction, optimization, and automation. - Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.Key Skills and Competencies - Strong programming skills in Python, with experience in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow - Experience data processing automation for LLM training and evaluation - Experience with distributed deep learning training on multi-GPU systems is a plusMeet your team:The ABAP Foundation Model team is pioneering AI innovations within the SAP ABAP ecosystem. It is an integral part of the Generative AI foundation within Business AI at SAP. We focus on creating and refining our own Foundation Models using SAP Business Data, pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI in business applications. By joining our team, you'll be an integral part of shaping the future of AI at SAP and driving significant advancements in the field.

#LI-CD1We win with inclusionSAP'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 world.SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides 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.For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.Compensation Range Transparency: SAPbelieves the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP's commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 120800 - 253800(USD)USD.The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidatewill be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills,experience, scope ofthe role, location, etc. as determinedthrough theselection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements:SAP North America Benefits .Requisition ID: 424584- Work Area:Software-Design and Development - Expected Travel: 0 - 10%- Career Status: Professional- Employment Type: Regular Full Time- Additional Locations:#LI-Hybrid
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Nearest Secondary Market: Los Angeles
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