Senior Software Engineer (AI and Machine Learning)
- Dentsply Sirona
- 8047 Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
- 20/03/2026
Job Description
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.
If you need assistance with completing the online application due to a disability, please send an accommodation request to careers@dentsplysirona.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Request” in the subject.
Dentsply and Sirona joined forces in 2016, to become the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental solutions. Our trusted brands have empowered dental professionals, in both practices and laboratories, to provide better, safer, and faster care in all dental disciplines for over 100 years. Now, working together under one brand globally, we are dedicated to continuing this journey for many years to come. Together we have unmatched scale and resources and are committed to using them to continue driving innovation and helping dental professionals achieve more than ever before.