Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.
Dentsply Sirona is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in AI product development. The candidate will join the Machine Learning Engineering (MLE) team, which builds and maintains infrastructure around the AI models used in our cloud-based solutions.
This role offers the opportunity to deliver products to customers on Dentsply Sirona’s platform and contribute to our mission: to transform dentistry and improve oral health globally.
This role will be based in Zurich, with the option of hybrid working.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead AI/ML projects, ensuring robust and scalable deployment of machine learning solutions
• Design and implement advanced AI/ML architectures and pipelines
• Optimize model performance and manage large-scale data processing
• Collaborate with AI/ML scientists to translate research into production-ready systems
• Automate model training, evaluation, and deployment workflows
• Manage high-impact AI projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical feasibility
• Partner with leadership and product teams to drive AI adoption and innovation
• Mentor junior AI/ML engineers, promote technical excellence and serve as a source of expertise in machine learning engineering
• Support product owners in refining user stories and defining acceptance criteria
• Work with software architects and other teams to integrate ML models into production systems
• Conduct thorough code reviews and ensure high-quality standards
• Participate in interview processes and contribute to hiring decisions
• Stay current with state-of-the-art technology and best practices in software engineering
Qualifications
Education
Master’s in AI, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience
Years and Type of Experience:
• 4 to 6 years of software engineering experience
• Experience with complex technical projects across teams and cross-funcational collaboration
• Experience with AI system design and architecture
• Experience with scalable machine learning deployment
• Experience with MLOps and automation
• Experience mentoring engineers
• Experience in medical device development is a plus
• Experience building end-to-end systems as a software engineer (or equivalent)
• Experience in one of the ML model development libraries: TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, etc.
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Dentsply Sirona is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or protected Veteran status. We appreciate your interest in Dentsply Sirona.
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Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, empowering dental professionals to provide better, safer and faster dental care. Our products and solutions include leading positions and platforms across consumables, equipment, technology, and specialty products. Dentsply Sirona is one global team that brings out the best in our people, lives and breathes high performance and personal accountability, acts with uncompromising integrity, improves the practice of dentistry with an unrelenting commitment to our customers and demonstrates a passion for innovation that shapes the dental industry.
As The Dental Solutions Company™ Dentsply Sirona’s comprehensive solutions offering includes leading product brands across consumables, equipment, technology and specialty products. With the broadest clinical education platform and an unparalleled commitment to R&D in dentistry, our mission and vision guide us to continuously aim higher, support our customers and advance patient care around the world.
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