SAP

Principal AI Application Engineer - FDE Intelligent Operations

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Base Salary

$176k - $374k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define the production-readiness and handover framework for forward-deployed engineering engagements.
  • Build monitoring, alerting, incident response, and reliability capabilities for deployed AI solutions.
  • Establish AI production-quality practices including drift detection, performance benchmarking, guardrail validation, and retraining triggers.
  • Set standards for production security, data boundaries, compliance, operational governance, and self-healing capabilities.
  • Design scalable operational tooling, automation, partner integration, playbooks, and repeatable processes for customer deployments.
  • Collaborate with Knowledge & IP, FDE squads, platform teams, customers, and external delivery partners to improve the delivery lifecycle.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across globally distributed teams.
  • Travel up to 20%.

Requirements

  • Deep hands-on experience operating AI-native solutions in customer production environments.
  • Experience with LLM-based systems, agentic workflows, and distributed architectures.
  • Deep experience in observability, incident management, and production reliability across cloud environments.
  • Experience identifying behavioral drift in agentic applications and maintaining uptime and contractual SLAs.
  • Experience in regulated or enterprise-grade environments involving compliance, security posture, and operational governance.
  • Ability to translate operational experience into standards, playbooks, and repeatable processes.
  • Ability to work across delivery squads, engineering and platform teams, customers, and external partners.
  • Skills used include AI output quality assurance, AI-assisted development, context engineering, agentic orchestration, agentic engineering, application security, cloud architecture, observability, high availability engineering, troubleshooting, evaluations and benchmarking engineering, and CI/CD.

Benefits

  • Flexible working models and a culture focused on inclusion, health, and well-being.
  • Up to 20% travel is required.
  • Variable incentive opportunities and additional benefits may be available subject to applicable plans and policies.

Categories

Forward DeployedSite Reliability
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10,000+ employees

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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