Hitachi's R D Center, located in Santa Clara, CA, serves as a pivotal technology hub to support Hitachi's global Social Innovation business. Our focus spans original and applied research, technology innovation, intellectual property creation, and solving real-world challenges. We collaborate closely with Hitachi's product and business divisions, contributing to Hitachi's IoT and AI business across a variety of industries, with a special focus on optimized manufacturing. We are looking for a AI Applications Development Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will contribute to our Industrial Digital Transformation solution portfolio by developing and testing ML/AI applications. We are not looking for a specialist in a narrow domain but rather someone who understands a typical ML lifecycle and can move to various levels of stack such as serving side, application integration, data processing or experimenting with various components. You'll get a chance to engage in real-world deployments in manufacturing facilities at scale. This position is a perfect match for a motivated programmer who is passionate about empowering society through the tremendous potential of Industrial IoT and AI.