Senior AI Engineer

SAP•Palo Alto, CA

36d•Hybrid

About The Position

At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging - but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed. With over 3.6 million connected companies, the SAP Business Network powers global commerce. We are moving beyond simple automation to build autonomous supply chain agents capable of reasoning, planning, and exception handling. This is a hands-on role for a Senior AI Application Engineer to drive the design and implementation of intelligent agents that bridge unstructured data with structured business logic. You will work with the latest advancements in Generative AI to build production-grade systems that solve real-world supply chain problems.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field
7+ years of professional experience in software development
3+ years of experience building and deploying distributed systems, microservices, or backend APIs (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
3+ years of applied AI experience (e.g. NLP, Machine Learning) including 1+ years of hands-on experience with Generative AI techniques like Large Language Models, RAG, Agentic Workflows

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
Hands-on experience with agentic tools (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph) and Vector Databases
Familiarity with graph databases (e.g. Neo4j) or query languages (Cypher, SPARQL) to support GraphRAG implementations
Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with Supply Chain Management, procurement processes, or logistics data models

Responsibilities

Component Design & Implementation: Own the end-to-end design and implementation of specific AI subsystems. You will translate high-level architectural vision into scalable, efficient, and maintainable code.
Build Agentic Workflows: Develop and optimize autonomous agents using modern frameworks
Production Engineering: Write clean, testable, and efficient code to implement highly available AI services
Data & Integration: Implement data pipelines that feed our reasoning engines. You will integrate vector databases and knowledge graphs with SAP's core business applications to ground AI responses in enterprise reality
Conduct thorough code reviews and mentor junior engineers on best practices in software design and AI engineering

Benefits

Constant learning
Skill growth
Great benefits
A team that wants you to grow and succeed
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively.
Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management.
As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development.
Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves.
At SAP, you can bring out your best.
SAP'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.
SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP's commitment to pay equity.
SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role.
Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance.
Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.