Senior Applied Research Scientist

Montreal, CanadaFull-timePosted Jul 14, 2026
Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Senior Applied Research ScientistFull-timeEmployee Type: RegularRegion: AMS - North America and CanadaWork Persona: FlexibleCompany DescriptionIt 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. Job DescriptionAbout the TeamThe 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 you'll 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, you’ll 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.L'équipeL'organisation Agentic Engineering chez ServiceNow est le groupe d'ingénierie obsédé par le client qui conçoit une expérience d'IA conversationnelle transformant l'intention d'entreprise en travail accompli. Nous faisons progresser la façon dont l'IA d'entreprise raisonne, se souvient et exécute.L'équipe Agent Orchestration — celle que vous rejoindrez — possède le cœur d'exécution : le harnais d'agent, le moteur d'orchestration, la coordination multi-agents, la gestion de la mémoire, ainsi que les cadres d'évaluation qui garantissent que les agents se comportent correctement en production. Chaque action autonome promise par Otto dépend de ce que cette équipe livre.En rejoignant notre équipe, vous serez à l'avant-garde de notre transformation IA, soutenu(e) par l'envergure mondiale de ServiceNow et l'agilité d'un environnement à forte croissance. Nous recherchons des talents de classe mondiale pour nous aider à étendre l'IA agentique à chaque employé, dans tous les secteurs de l'entreprise.What You'll DoAs 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 workflowsReliability at scale: Own the runtime's fault tolerance, latency, and throughput; design for enterprise workflows that cannot fail silently or non-deterministicallyObservability: 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 doPrompt infrastructure: Build prompt management systems — versioning, templating, and systematic evaluation — that keep agent behavior stable across model updates and configuration changesEval engineering: Design and own evaluation frameworks (unit evals, integration evals, production monitors) that measure agent quality, catch regressions, and drive data-informed decisionsLLM integration: Integrate...

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