Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer

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.

· 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 plus

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. 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., 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., 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 world.