About the Role
As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Associate), you will build AI-native enterprise solutions alongside experienced engineers and work directly with customers. You will contribute to real-world AI implementations, rapidly learn enterprise technologies, and help deliver production-grade AI applications across SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP AI Core, and cloud-native environments. This role is ideal for engineers passionate about software engineering, Generative AI, and solving customer problems through hands-on development.
Responsibilities
- Develop application features and AI-powered capabilities under the guidance of senior engineers.
- Build backend services, REST APIs, and frontend components for enterprise AI applications.
- Develop AI agents using LLMs, RAG, MCP, tool calling, and agent orchestration frameworks.
- Integrate SAP systems, enterprise APIs, databases, and external services into AI solutions.
- Support deployment on SAP BTP, SAP AI Core, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.
- Participate in customer workshops, discovery sessions, demos, and implementations.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
- Debug production issues and improve reliability and performance.
- Contribute reusable components and documentation.
- Continuously learn emerging AI technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, IT, or related discipline.
- Strong Python programming fundamentals.
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering.
- Basic understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, and RAG.
- Exposure to LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, or similar.
- Knowledge of REST APIs, Git, Docker, SQL/NoSQL.
- Basic Kubernetes, cloud, and CI/CD understanding.
- Exposure to SAP BTP, SAP AI Core, or Joule is a plus.
- Strong analytical thinking, curiosity, and communication.
- AI/ML internship or academic projects.
- Exposure to vector databases and knowledge graphs.
- Experience with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code.
- Open-source or hackathon participation.
Skills
- Generative AI
- LLMs
- RAG
- Prompt Engineering
- Embeddings
- LangGraph
- LangChain
- CrewAI
- Semantic Kernel
- AutoGen
- REST APIs
- Git
- Docker
- SQL
- NoSQL
- Kubernetes
- Cloud
- CI/CD
- SAP BTP
- SAP AI Core
- Joule
- Vector Databases
- Knowledge Graphs
- GitHub Copilot
- Cursor
- Claude Code
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Regular Full Time
Experience Level
- Associate
- Graduate
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, IT, or related discipline
- Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, IT, or related discipline
Salary/Compensations
- 55200-127900 USD
Benefits
- Constant learning
- Skill growth
- Great benefits
- Team that wants you to grow and succeed
- SAP North America Benefits
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
