Principal Applied Scientist

UiPath
Bellevue
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 200,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Experience: 10+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Lead architecture, research, and deployment of next-generation ML systems at UiPath, bridging cutting-edge ML research with scalable production capabilities. Define technical strategy for agent-based automation, design ML infrastructure, and mentor ML engineering teams while partnering with product and design to translate research into customer-facing automation features.

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Principal Applied Scientist

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Job Summary

Lead architecture, research, and deployment of next-generation ML systems at UiPath, bridging cutting-edge ML research with scalable production capabilities. Define technical strategy for agent-based automation, design ML infrastructure, and mentor ML engineering teams while partnering with product and design to translate research into customer-facing automation features.
Location: Bellevue
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and drive technical strategy for agent-based automation, including how autonomous agents use LLMs, reinforcement learning, simulation environments, tool use, and multi-step reasoning to integrate with the UiPath platform.
  • •Architect, prototype, and deploy advanced ML and AI systems, covering LLM fine-tuning, multimodal pipelines, computer-use modeling, agent orchestration frameworks, and decision-making systems.
  • •Lead the design and implementation of ML infrastructure and services for model training, fine-tuning, large-scale inference, model serving, monitoring, drift detection, continuous learning loops, and ML operations for agentic systems.
  • •Partner closely with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to translate research advances into customer-facing capabilities.
  • •Represent UiPath in the broader community through publications, open-source contributions, conference participation, and collaboration with academia or ecosystem partners.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 250,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Advanced degree (MS or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • •10+ years of industry experience in machine learning, including substantial experience building and operating ML systems in production.
  • •Deep expertise in modern ML frameworks and libraries, strong proficiency in Python, and experience integrating ML models into large-scale software systems.
  • •Proven experience with large language models or foundation models, including fine-tuning, data preparation, inference optimization, or model evaluation.
  • •Experience with large datasets, distributed training or inference, scalable architecture design, and optimization for latency, throughput, and cost.
Experience:10+ yearsEnterprise softwareAI/MLMachine learningLLMs
Education:Master's
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:PythonLLMsReinforcement learningMultimodalDistributed trainingModel servingML infrastructure

Company Brief

UiPath
Provides robotic process automation (RPA) software and AI-driven automation platform that enables organizations to design, deploy, and manage software robots to automate routine business processes across enterprise systems.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2005
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