Senior Principal Applied Scientist

UiPath UiPath · Enterprise · Bucharest, Romania · Engineering

Senior Principal Applied Scientist role at UiPath focusing on building, optimizing, and deploying machine learning models. The role involves implementing models from academic papers, running benchmarks, performing statistical analysis, and presenting findings. It requires strong knowledge of Python, ML libraries, and foundational computer science/math concepts, with a focus on applying ML to solve real-world problems in an enterprise context.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and improve modern machine learning models to solve complex ML problems.
  2. Read papers, propose model improvements, implement and test the new models.
  3. Think about the best human-computer interfaces to make machine learning models accessible to everyone.
  4. Run regular benchmarks and perform statistical analysis, draw conclusions on the impact of your research-based optimizations and present your findings to the team.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • PyTorch, Tensorflow, or JAX
  • implement models from academic papers
  • linear algebra, probability and statistics
  • basic data structures
  • basic algorithms

Nice to have

  • human-computer interfaces

What the JD emphasized

  • implement models from academic papers

Other signals

  • build, optimize and deploy machine learning models
  • implement models from academic papers
  • solve real world problems with techniques that are scalable, efficient, and reliable in production