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 transitioning FDE engagements into Intelligent Operations.
  • Build monitoring, alerting, incident response, and SLA-management capabilities for deployed AI solutions.
  • Establish AI production-quality practices including drift detection, performance benchmarking, guardrail validation, and retraining triggers.
  • Create operational governance standards for security, data boundaries, compliance, and self-healing capabilities.
  • Design scalable tooling, automation, and partner integrations for operations across multiple customer engagements.
  • Capture operational learnings with the Knowledge & IP team and feed them back into the delivery lifecycle.
  • Mentor engineers, set operational standards, and collaborate with delivery squads, platform teams, customers, and external partners.
  • Travel up to 20%.

Requirements

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

Benefits

  • SAP offers flexible working models and emphasizes inclusion, health, and well-being.
  • The role includes up to 20% travel.
  • Variable incentive opportunities and additional benefits may be available subject to applicable plans and eligibility requirements.

Categories

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About SAP

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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