Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Associate)

Location: This is a hybrid position based from our New York City office located in the Hudson Yards.

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Associate), you will begin your journey building AI-native enterprise solutions alongside experienced engineers while working 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 who are passionate about software engineering, Generative AI, and solving customer problems through hands-on development.

- 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.

- Debug production issues and improve reliability and performance.

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, IT, or related discipline.

- 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.

You will be part of a global Forward Deployed Engineering team delivering enterprise AI solutions for customers across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. You will work alongside experienced AI engineers while developing expertise in Generative AI, agentic systems, SAP technologies, and enterprise software delivery.

Compensation Range Transparency : 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.

The targeted annual combined range for this position is 55200-127900USD . The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process.

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 .

Requisition ID: 457501 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 70% | Career Status: Graduate | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid