Principal Research Engineer/Scientist
ServiceNow
Tout a commencé sous le soleil de San Diego, en Californie, en 2004, lorsqu’un ingénieur visionnaire, Fred Luddy, a vu le potentiel de transformer notre façon de travailler. Aujourd’hui, ServiceNow se présente comme un leader mondial du marché, apportant une technologie innovante améliorée par l’IA à plus de 8 100 clients, dont 85% des entreprises du Fortune 500®. Notre plateforme intelligente basée sur le nuage connecte de manière transparente les personnes, les systèmes et les processus pour permettre aux organisations de trouver des méthodes de travail plus intelligentes, plus rapides et meilleures. Mais ce n’est que le début de notre voyage. Joignez-vous à nous dans la poursuite de notre objectif de rendre le monde meilleur pour tous.
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It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.
Join us to put AI to work for people.
Description du poste
En tant que chercheuse ou chercheur principal, vous travaillerez sur des questions de recherche auxquelles la plupart des laboratoires d'IA n'ont tout simplement pas accès. ServiceNow AI Research a pour mandat de construire le futur de l'agentique en entreprise, avec une position d'observation rare: nous voyons comment les agents se comportent réellement, dans des environnements d'entreprise complexes et à grande échelle.
Vous dirigerez des initiatives de recherche sur la capacité des agents à accumuler et à réutiliser le savoir tacite, à apprendre et à s'améliorer en continu, ainsi que sur leur résilience, leur sûreté et la confidentialité des données qu'ils manipulent. Ces questions sont aujourd'hui les vrais obstacles au déploiement de l'agentique en entreprise, et elles se révèlent dans la réalité opérationnelle avant d'apparaître dans la littérature.
Alors qu'une grande partie de la communauté en IA et en TAL se concentre sur les capacités de base des agents, notre équipe explore les dimensions qui déterminent l'adoption réelle: mécanismes de sûreté, détection de menaces, garanties de confidentialité et pratiques d'IA responsable. Vous aurez la liberté de publier et de faire avancer l'état de l'art, avec l'avantage rare de valider vos hypothèses contre des déploiements réels plutôt que contre des bancs d'essai.
As a Principal Researcher, you will work on research questions that most AI labs simply do not have access to. ServiceNow AI Research is chartered to build the future of enterprise agentic AI, from a rare vantage point: we see how agents actually behave, inside complex enterprise environments, at scale.
You will lead research initiatives on how agents accumulate and reuse tacit knowledge, learn and improve continuously, and on their resilience, their safety, and the privacy of the data they handle. These are the real obstacles to enterprise agentic deployment today, and they surface in operational reality well before they appear in the literature.
While much of the AI and NLP community concentrates on core agent capabilities, our team explores the dimensions that determine real adoption: safety mechanisms, threat detection, privacy guarantees, and responsible AI practices. You will have the freedom to publish and advance the state of the art, with the rare advantage of testing your hypotheses against real deployments rather than against benchmarks.
Qualifications
- Doctorat en informatique, en apprentissage automatique ou dans un domaine connexe, ou expérience de recherche équivalente
- Huit années ou plus d'expérience en recherche après le doctorat, dont une part significative dans un contexte industriel ou en lien direct avec des systèmes déployés
- Dossier de publications établi dans des lieux de premier plan (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP ou équivalents), avec des contributions reconnues comme influentes dans votre domaine
- Antécédents démontrés de définition d'un agenda de recherche, et non seulement d'exécution: vous avez choisi des problèmes avant que la communauté ne s'y intéresse et vous pouvez expliquer pourquoi
- Expérience de direction scientifique d'équipes ou de projets pluridisciplinaires réunissant chercheurs et ingénieurs
- Solides compétences en développement logiciel: vous écrivez, maintenez et optimisez du code de recherche de qualité, et vous savez ce qu'il faut pour qu'un résultat survive au passage en production
- Usage avancé des outils agentiques dans votre propre pratique de recherche, et volonté de faire progresser les pratiques de l'équipe sur ce plan
- Capacité démontrée à influencer des décisions techniques en dehors de votre propre équipe, notamment auprès d'équipes produit et ingénierie
- Excellentes aptitudes de communication, incluant la capacité à expliquer des travaux techniques complexes à un public non spécialisé et à des dirigeants
Atouts
- Expertise dans un ou plusieurs des axes suivants: mémoire et savoir tacite des agents, apprentissage continu, sûreté et alignement, sécurité et détection de menaces, confidentialité, évaluation d'agents
- Expérience de travail sur des systèmes d'IA opérant dans des environnements d'entreprise réels, avec les contraintes de conformité, de gouvernance et d'échelle que cela implique
- Contributions à des logiciels ouverts, à des jeux de données ou à des bancs d'évaluation utilisés par la communauté
- Rôles de service scientifique: comité de programme, édition, organisation d'ateliers
- Collaborations académiques ou supervision de doctorants
- Maîtrise du français ou intérêt à l'apprendre, dans un environnement de travail montréalais bilingue
Requirements
- PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field, or equivalent research experience
- Eight or more years of research experience post-PhD, a significant portion of it in an industrial setting or in direct contact with deployed systems
- Established publication record at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, or equivalents), with contributions recognized as influential in your field
- Demonstrated track record of setting a research agenda, not only executing one: you have chosen problems before the community turned to them, and you can explain why
- Experience providing scientific leadership to cross-disciplinary teams or projects bringing together researchers and engineers
- Strong software development skills: you write, maintain, and optimize high-quality research code, and you know what it takes for a result to survive the move into production
- Advanced use of agentic tools in your own research practice, and a willingness to advance the team's practices in this area
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions beyond your own team, particularly with product and engineering teams
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical work to non-specialist audiences and to executives
Nice to have
- Expertise in one or more of the following areas: agent memory and tacit knowledge, continual learning, safety and alignment, security and threat detection, privacy, agent evaluation
- Experience with AI systems operating in real enterprise environments, with the compliance, governance, and scale constraints that entails
- Contributions to open source software, datasets, or evaluation benchmarks used by the community
- Scientific service roles: program committees, editorial work, workshop organization
- Academic collaborations or supervision of doctoral students
- Fluency in French, or interest in learning it, in a bilingual Montreal work environment
Work Personas
Nous abordons notre monde du travail distribué avec flexibilité et confiance. Les profils de travail (flexible, à distance ou requis au bureau) sont des catégories attribuées aux employés de ServiceNow en fonction de la nature de leur travail et de leur lieu de travail assigné. Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ici. Pour déterminer l'éligibilité à un profil de travail, ServiceNow peut confirmer la distance entre votre résidence principale et le bureau ServiceNow le plus proche à l'aide d'un service tiers.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow est un employeur qui souscrit au principe de l'égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Tous les candidats qualifiés recevront une considération pour l’emploi sans égard à la race, la couleur, la croyance, la religion, le sexe, l’orientation sexuelle, l’origine nationale ou la nationalité, l’ascendance, l’âge, le handicap, l’identité ou l’expression de genre, l’état matrimonial, le statut d’ancien combattant ou toute autre catégorie protégée par la loi. De plus, tous les candidats qualifiés ayant des antécédents d’arrestation ou de condamnation seront pris en considération pour un emploi conformément aux exigences légales.
Accommodations
Nous mettons tout en œuvre offrir une expérience accessible et inclusive pour tous les candidats. Si vous avez besoin d’une mesure d’adaptation raisonnable pour compléter une partie du processus de candidature ou si vous n’êtes pas en mesure d’utiliser cette candidature en ligne et que vous avez besoin d’une autre méthode pour postuler, veuillez communiquer avec View email address on jobs.smartrecruiters.com pour obtenir de l’aide.
Export Control Regulations
Pour les postes nécessitant l’accès à une technologie contrôlée assujettie aux règlements sur les contrôles à l’exportation, y compris les U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow peut être tenu d’obtenir l’approbation des autorités gouvernementales en matière de contrôle des exportations pour certaines personnes. Tout emploi est subordonné à l’obtention par ServiceNow d’une licence d’exportation ou d’une autre approbation qui pourrait être requise par les autorités de contrôle des exportations compétentes.
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Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here . To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
Accommodations
We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact View email address on jobs.smartrecruiters.com for assistance.
Export Control Regulations
For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.
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