Senior Applied Research Scientist

About the Team

The Agentic Engineering org at ServiceNow is the customer-obsessed engineering group that builds a conversational AI experience that turns enterprise intent into completed work. We advance how enterprise AI reasons remembers and executes.

The Agent Orchestration team the team youll join owns the execution core: the agent harness orchestration runtime multi-agent coordination memory management and the evaluation frameworks that ensure agents behave correctly in production. Every autonomous action Otto promises depends on what this team ships.

By joining our team youll be at the forefront of our AI transformation journey backed by the global scale of ServiceNow and the agility of a high-growth environment. We are looking for world-class talent to help us extend agentic AI to every employee across every corner of the business.

What Youll Do

As a Senior Applied Research Scientist you will own significant parts of the agent harness the infrastructure layer that enables AI agents to reason over real enterprise data take action across workflows and run safely at Fortune 500 scale.

• Harness engineering: Design and build the agent execution harness the orchestration layer that routes inputs manages context invokes tools handles retries and surfaces execution state across multi-step agentic workflows
• Reliability at scale: Own the runtimes fault tolerance latency and throughput; design for enterprise workflows that cannot fail silently or non-deterministically
• Observability: Instrument the harness with tracing cost attribution and latency visibility so the team can reason about agent behavior in production and catch failures before customers do
• Prompt infrastructure: Build prompt management systems versioning templating and systematic evaluation that keep agent behavior stable across model updates and configuration changes
• Eval engineering: Design and own evaluation frameworks (unit evals integration evals production monitors) that measure agent quality catch regressions and drive data-informed decisions
• LLM integration: Integrate with and abstract over frontier LLMs managing model routing fallback strategies cost and latency tradeoffs in production
• Technical leadership: Raise the technical bar through architecture decisions code reviews and coaching particularly on agentic design patterns and production AI discipline.
• System boundary design: Define where agent logic lives whats a tool call a sub-agent a hardcoded path or a human escalation and establish those design standards across the team

Qualifications :

To be successful in this role you have:

• 4 years building production software systems with a strong track record on reliability performance and scalability
• Hands-on experience shipping generative AI products not just integrating LLM APIs or building prototypes but owning AI-powered features that production users depend on
• Solid depth in how large language models work: failure modes context constraints and how prompt design shapes model behavior at scale
• Practical prompt engineering experience: systematically designing versioning and evaluating prompts across model updates or A/B evaluation cycles
• A real track record in eval engineering not just familiarity but a portfolio of evaluation suites designed shipped and used to drive quality decisions in production AI systems
• Cost and efficiency awareness at the system level: experience reasoning about model routing inference cost and latency tradeoffs in production
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: distributed systems API design and testing discipline
• Comfort operating in fast-moving ambiguous startup-like AI product environments

Nice to Have

• Experience with multi-agent coordination patterns (A2A MCP)
• Familiarity with agent frameworks (LangChain LlamaIndex or similar)
• Prior experience shipping AI systems in enterprise software
• Experience with AI observability tooling (tracing cost tracking LLM-specific monitoring)
• Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure service observability logging monitoring reliability engineering and production troubleshooting

Additional Information :

Work Personas

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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 addition all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements. 

Accommodations

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time