Principal AgenticAI Engineer / Architect at AI CoE (f/m/d)
We win with inclusionSAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.
Responsibilities / Core Tasks:
- Lead develop AI services from PoC to Production
- Lead the development of a best practice framework for AI development (both narrow and GenAI) for all dev streams and teams
- Lead the definition, evolution and drive the setup of infrastructure architecture for the AI applications we are building
- Setup and develop new Big Data pipelines, to productize data ETL workloads for different AI services
- Develop AI/ML models to solve real life business problems (this includes Data Science exploration phase as well as model productization)
- Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions
- Productionize AI PoCs with good software engineering by incorporating CI/CD pipelines, deployment and MLOps
- Take ownership over AI services in development and production
- Lead, guide and mentor junior colleagues and evolve their AI engineering skillset
The candidate will have proven and industry-leading skills in Data Science and Data Engineering as well as Software Engineering and Solution Architecture, with an entrepreneurial spirit to join our diverse team and work on innovation projects as well as exceptional leadership and people skills.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in machine learning, computer science, engineering, or related technical fields
- Vast coding knowledge of at least one programming language such as Python or Java
- Deep knowledge of Distributed Computing Systems for Big Data Engineering such as Databricks (PySpark/Scala)
- Exceptional understanding of AI/ML concepts
- Good understanding and hands on experience in agentic AI communication technologies such as MCP and A2A
- Exceptional understanding of AIOps and LLMOps/AgentOps concepts (e.g. MLflow 3.0)
- Deep Infrastructure knowledge around AI solution design on Hyperscalar clouds such as Azure/AWS/GCP
- Extensive coding experience in applying ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Langchain, OpenAI, Huggingface, Crew
- Very deep experience in applying AgenticAI frameworks such as Langgraph, CrewAI, Microsoft agent framework or google-adk
- Industry leading general software engineering best-practices (e.g. Object-Oriented Programming) and experience working in a scrum-like software engineering unit
- Productization technologies and tools such as Docker, K8s, GitHub, VSCode, Linux etc.
- CI/CD and ML Ops frameworks such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, MLFlow, etc.
- Cloud-deployment offerings such as Azure ML, Databricks, AKS, Event Hubs, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions or similar in AWS / GCP
- Exceptional understanding and proven track record of AI-native development with spec driven frameworks like openspec using coding agents like Claude, Cline, Copilot etc.
- Some form of code ownership and scrum team leadership experience
- Curiosity to learn about different AI applications and new technologies in general
- Excellent spoken and written knowledge of English as well as collaborative mindset ; good German language skills
- Experience with SAP AI offerings e.g. AI Core, AI Business Services, Joule etc. is a plus
- Understanding of Agile / Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodologies is a plus
- Python backend development, e.g. Flask, Django, FastAPI, Quart
We offer
What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.
What you`ll build
AI Usage in the Recruitment Process For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process. Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process. Requisition ID: 456815 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Part Time or Regular Full Time
