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The SAP Innovation Center Network is a strategic innovation entity within SAP, combining software engineering excellence with thought leadership and entrepreneurial spirit. Across various focus clusters and by building on strong teams, we pioneer game-changing solutions in close collaboration with startups, customers & partners in industry and research as well as with other SAP units. To ensure a successful go-to-market, we follow an end-to-end responsibility approach. By exploring unconventional ideas and developing inspiring proofs of concept, we push the state of the art in computer science and its applied fields to provide SAP with foresight into future trends.

As part of the SAP Innovation Center Network Machine Learning team, you will work together with a team of dedicated experts including researchers, developers, dev-ops engineers, and architects with a single goal of building best machine learning pipelines for a variety of use cases spanning commerce, financial markets, and procurement. You will work against fixed timelines and your success will be measured by the ability to deliver solutions matching the performance of top notch research prototypes.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

• Ability to capture business requirements and translate them into software specifications
• Closely work with customers, partners and production teams to enhance the solution and systems, troubleshooting data issues etc.
• Implement most recent algorithms and approaches for machine learning in collaboration with our data scientists and researchers
• Initiates and participates in projects in the area of prediction, optimization, and processes using advanced statistical / mathematical approaches, in the enterprise environment.
• Design best architecture and select the most appropriate modeling techniques and data visualization for big data analysis.
• Experience in hands-on software development
• Iteratively test, refine and improve the models

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Math or ML/AI related topics,
• Strong background in Machine Learning (Deep Learning, Computer Vision, NLP),
• Research or work experience in Deep Learning, Computer Vision techniques and frameworks,
• Experience in statistical modeling, machine learning, or data mining practice.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, JavaScript
• Familiar with one or more machine learning or statistical modeling tools
• Strong Industry domain knowledge and experience preferred
• Knowledge in Natural Language Processing preferred

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