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Expert Machine Learning Engineer (Agentic AI, SAP BTP)

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2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable LLM-powered applications, intelligent assistants, AI copilots, RAG pipelines, knowledge retrieval systems, and agentic or multi-agent workflows.
  • Write production-quality code across data ingestion, embedding pipelines, orchestration logic, API layers, and AI evaluation systems, primarily in Python and secondarily in Java/CAP.
  • Build agentic workflows on SAP AI Core and integrate LLM-based features into CAP/Fiori applications.
  • Architect and deploy multi-tenant SaaS solutions on SAP BTP using patterns and services including MTX, service-manager, and IAS/AMS.
  • Implement ontology-grounded agents, semantic search, vector databases, prompt orchestration, tool calling, memory, and context-aware reasoning.
  • Contribute to fine-tuning, alignment, prompt optimization, inference optimization, and model evaluation.
  • Establish LLMOps practices for deployment, monitoring, observability, governance, guardrails, and AI cost management.
  • Instrument OTEL tracing, build Cloud Logging dashboards, and optimize latency, throughput, HANA Cloud queries, and AI Core inference costs.
  • Apply SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
  • Build evaluation and benchmarking frameworks with domain-specific test harnesses for validating LLM outputs.
  • Develop proofs of concept, accelerators, reusable AI solutions, technical publications, and patent ideas.
  • Collaborate with platform, data, product, and business teams; mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews.

Requirements

  • 10–12 years of hands-on experience in AI/ML, Generative AI, Data Science, and/or Enterprise Architecture delivering production-grade LLM and AI solutions.
  • Degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Expert-level Python skills for AI pipelines, agent frameworks, orchestration, APIs, and evaluation systems.
  • Experience with Java and SAP CAP microservices, plus strong SQL and HANA Cloud query optimization skills.
  • Experience building and consuming RESTful and event-driven APIs and using asynchronous programming patterns.
  • Experience with unit testing, integration testing, test harness design, Git, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and engineering practices at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, foundation models, agentic AI, deep learning, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, semantic search, fine-tuning, model evaluation, and guardrails.
  • Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, Hugging Face, OpenAI APIs, vector databases, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn.
  • Knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, scalable application design, resiliency, fault tolerance, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud AI platforms.
  • Experience with SAP BTP, SAP AI Core, SAP Generative AI Hub, SAP CAP in Java or Node.js, and SAP BTP multi-tenancy patterns.
  • Experience with Spark/Databricks, data pipeline design, big-data ecosystems, and HANA Cloud query design.
  • Preferred qualifications include open-source contributions, publications, patents, GenAI transformation, enterprise search, copilots, autonomous agent frameworks, Responsible AI, governance, AI security, AI cost management, and production benchmarking.

Benefits

  • Flexible working models and a culture focused on inclusion, health, well-being, and personal development.
  • Regular full-time employment with expected travel of 0–10% and a hybrid work arrangement.
  • Accessibility accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
  • Successful candidates may be required to complete background verification.
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SAP builds enterprise application software and cloud services for finance, procurement, supply chain, human resources, and analytics, sold through subscriptions, licenses, and support. Its portfolio includes SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Ariba, and SAP SuccessFactors. Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is a public company listed on the NYSE and Frankfurt (ETR) and serves enterprises and public-sector organizations worldwide.

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