Forward Deployed AI Engineer

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

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you will independently build AI-native enterprise applications and work directly with customers to solve complex business problems. You will own technical workstreams, design production-grade AI solutions, and collaborate with architects to deliver scalable, secure, enterprise-ready AI applications.

This role is designed for engineers with 3-7 years of experience who are passionate about Generative AI, cloud-native engineering, and customer success.

- Design and implement production-grade AI applications using modern software engineering practices.

- Develop AI agents using LLMs, RAG, MCP, tool calling, structured outputs, and multi-agent orchestration.

- Build integrations with SAP products, enterprise applications, APIs, databases, and external services.

- Deploy and operate AI applications on SAP AI Core, SAP BTP, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms.

- Own customer-facing technical workstreams and translate business requirements into working AI solutions.

- Develop reusable frameworks, accelerators, and reference implementations.

- Optimize AI systems for performance, reliability, observability, and cost.

- Collaborate with architects, product engineering, and customer stakeholders.

- Drive innovation through prototypes and emerging AI technologies.

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

- 3-7 years of professional software engineering experience.

- Strong Python programming skills with experience in Java, TypeScript, or JavaScript.

- Hands-on experience with LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, or similar frameworks.

- Strong understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, RAG, MCP, and agentic AI.

- Experience building REST APIs, microservices, and cloud-native applications.

- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, and AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Experience integrating enterprise applications and databases.

- Exposure to SAP BTP, SAP AI Core, Joule, or SAP Business AI services is highly desirable.

- Excellent communication, analytical thinking, ownership, and customer engagement skills.

- Experience with Knowledge Graphs, GraphRAG, AI evaluation, and AI observability.

- Experience delivering enterprise AI projects in customer-facing roles.

- Open-source contributions, hackathons, or technical community involvement.

- Experience using GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar AI-assisted engineering tools.

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 90000-198500USD . 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: 457465 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 70% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid