PhD Data Scientist - F/M

We help the world run better At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

AI and Data Scientist in Embedded Research with Industry AI and SAP E-Mobility (f/m/)

ABOUT THE TEAM       The Academic Partnership organization at SAP is regarded being the bridge connecting SAP and academia. We build collaborative, structured partnerships with academic institutions and encompass a wide range of activities and programs in regards of academic teaching, academic community management, and PhD talent management.

The PhD Graduate Team stands for embedding cutting-edge research into functional teams across SAP, bringing together interdisciplinary PhD talent in a research-like environment.

The Academic Partnerships organization at SAP partners with other SAP teams to provide the best services to foster strategic research collaborations between SAP and academia. The PhD Graduate Team is responsible for building the bridge between cutting-edge research and SAP functional teams. Our mission is to facilitate the application of research across SAP and contribute to SAP research strategy with interdisciplinary research activities.

Working together with the Industry AI E-Mobility team, focusing on trustworthy, data-driven energy forecasting, you will bring the research perspectives and insights from the engineering, mobility, and data science areas to our sustainability and innovation strategy, validating the possible innovation topics and their commercialization potential, and bridging the gap between industry and academia.

The Role:   In your daily work you will be evaluating, benchmarking, developing, and improving AI models from research findings to project and product components, collaborating with data and AI scientists, AI engineers, industry experts, researchers, and business stakeholders. You will deliver innovative AI solutions for the E-Mobility field, leveraging advances from AI research, bringing them to the intersection of highly technical solutions and enterprise business context:

Research and identify latest AI and technology innovations in the E-Mobility, Renewable Energy, Sustainability field

Drive business development activities by identifying growth opportunities and high-potential research topics

Contribute to data science and AI development in e-mobility solutions, incl. agentic development and insights

Explore and apply AI technologies within e-mobility to enhance automation and improve decision-making, as well as investigate the integration potential into SAP systems

Bridge the gap between academic findings and industry: validate the applicability and test cutting-edge research methods in the field for our products.

Participate in interdisciplinary research activities with the PhD graduate team, supporting SAP’s research strategy

Be an active part of research mentoring programs and the research community at SAP

Collaborate with various internal and external stakeholders

Advanced university degree (PhD preferred, industrial PhD in the energy and mobility field preferred) in mathematics, computer science, information technology or a similar field

At least 3 years of work experience at the intersection between industry and academic research, including analytics, research, and data science roles

Academic track record (publications preferred) in the field of applied ML/AI, preferably related to uncertainty quantification in complex e-mobility