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Principal Applied Scientist

UiPath · Bellevue · On-site

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About UiPath

Transform enterprise operations with the UiPath Platform™ for business orchestration and automation, enabling AI agents, robots, and people to deliver secure, compliant outcomes at scale. Backed by Accel, Sequoia and IVP.

About the role

As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will lead the architecture, research, and productization of these next-generation ML systems, bridging deep research with deployment at scale and shaping the future of enterprise automation. • Serve as a technical leader and mentor across ML engineering, data science, and software engineering, fostering a culture of experimentation, reproducibility, versioning, and rigorous evaluation.

More about this role

The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. We’re committed to creating category-leading enterprise software that unleashes that power.

To make that happen, we need people who are curious, self-propelled, generous, and genuine. People who love being part of a fast-moving, fast-thinking growth company. And people who care—about each other, about UiPath, and about our larger purpose.

Could that be you?

As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will lead the architecture, research, and productization of these next-generation ML systems, bridging deep research with deployment at scale and shaping the future of enterprise automation.

What You Will Do

• 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...

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