At SAP, the business problem is to accelerate enterprise-wide adoption of safe, scalable AI systems, and to shape what's next in the industry, by leveraging AI architecture direction and technical leadership.
Requirements
- Deep engineering expertise in AI architecture
- Strategic influence and ability to work across product, platform, security, data, and business stakeholders
- Experience with LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, semantic data architectures, and model governance frameworks
- Ability to prototype, evaluate emerging AI technologies, and enable engineering teams to adopt modern AI development patterns
- Knowledge of AI platforms, frameworks, and model providers
- Experience with reusable libraries, development environments, and standardized patterns
- Understanding of AI cost efficiency, including inference cost modeling and optimization strategies
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the AI architecture strategy, including reference architectures, platform patterns, reusable components, and integration standards.
- Architect agentic systems, tool orchestration, and LLM-driven workflows to support intelligent and autonomous application behaviors.
- Partner with product engineering leaders to embed AI capabilities into core product experiences and foundational platform services.
- Establish AI governance frameworks, covering data lineage, model monitoring, human-in-the-loop controls, auditability, and responsible AI practices.
- Guide the selection and adoption of AI platforms, frameworks, and model providers, balancing performance, cost, compliance, and security.
- Drive engineering productivity improvements through reusable libraries, development environments, and standardized patterns.
- Measure and improve AI cost efficiency, including inference cost modeling and optimization strategies.
Other
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Travel requirement: 0 - 10%
- Career Status: Professional
- Employment Type: Regular Full Time
- Ability to work in a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development