Drimva

SAP

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Palo Alto, CA, United States · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026

Experience
10+ years of software engineering experience.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.

About the job

Architects and leads the deployment of large-scale machine-learning systems, shaping technical standards and AI direction across products and teams.

What you'll do

  • Design and optimize large-scale ML systems and infrastructure, ensuring production readiness and business, performance, scalability, and governance requirements.
  • Lead deployment and define architectural and operational standards, including performance, security, and model governance practices.
  • Mentor engineers, advise stakeholders, and influence technical direction and adoption of modern ML techniques across teams.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience delivering complex systems.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
  • Production AI/ML experience with LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, vector search, agent workflows, and model evaluation.
  • Expertise in distributed systems and large-scale enterprise architecture; strong programming skills, ML frameworks, and MLOps practices.

Tools

large language models (LLM), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, vector search, agent workflows, MLOps

AI focus

Architect and scale production ML systems and LLM infrastructure; apply modern AI techniques, including RAG and agent workflows, and ensure model evaluation, governance, explainability, and safe experimentation.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)