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Senior Application Engineer — Buying Agents

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São Leopoldo, BrazilSenior

Responsibilities

  • Define architecture and technical direction for intelligent, agent-driven procurement systems.
  • Design agent patterns for planning, tool calling, failure recovery, human handoff, and framework selection.
  • Own shared services for policy grounding, routing, orchestration, memory, and governed handoff.
  • Set AI engineering guardrails, safety measures, evaluation methods, regression monitoring, and token-economics practices.
  • Define procurement integration architecture, APIs, event contracts, and cross-team technical standards.
  • Frame ambiguous problems, challenge requirements, drive decisions to closure, and identify systemic risks.
  • Mentor senior developers and develop technical onboarding and capability curricula for agentic and AI-assisted development.
  • Remain hands-on by implementing the most technically challenging parts of the architecture.

Requirements

  • Deep hands-on experience creating and managing production AI agents capable of planning, tool use, and failure recovery.
  • Experience designing RAG pipelines using embeddings, hybrid search, re-ranking, vector stores, and agent/tool interaction protocols such as MCP.
  • Experience with enterprise AI reliability and safety practices, including guardrails, prompt-injection defense, PII handling, audit trails, human-in-the-loop workflows, golden-set evaluations, LLM-as-a-judge, regression harnesses, prompt/model drift monitoring, model routing, caching, and cost-per-task budgeting.
  • Strong architectural expertise in Java, Spring Boot 3.x, reactive programming, WebFlux, Project Reactor, and Domain-Driven Design.
  • Experience owning platform and integration architecture with Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, and RabbitMQ.
  • Ability to decompose ambiguous problems, define standards, drive decisions, mentor engineers, and establish architecture through ADRs and OpenAPI specifications.
  • Preferred experience with SAP BTP, CAP, AI Core, HANA Cloud Vector Engine, Integration Suite, S/4HANA Clean Core, procurement, ERP, or another enterprise domain.

Benefits

  • Flexible working models, health and well-being support, and an inclusive global work environment.
  • International collaboration with engineers and architects across Brazil, Germany, and India.
  • Permanent SAP roles may be eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program subject to policy and eligibility rules.
  • Accessibility accommodations and recruiting support are available for applicants with disabilities.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaJavaRabbitMQSAP Cloud PlatformSpring BootTerraform
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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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