Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Position:
Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Associate)

Company:
SAP

Compensation:
55200-127900 USD

Location:
United States, New York City

Employment type:
Regular Full Time

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid

Short Summary:
As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Associate), you will build AI-native enterprise solutions, work directly with customers, and contribute to real-world AI implementations. This role is ideal for engineers passionate about software engineering and Generative AI.

Responsibilities:
- Develop application features and AI-powered capabilities under the guidance of senior engineers.
- Build backend services, REST APIs, and frontend components for enterprise AI applications.
- Develop AI agents using LLMs, RAG, MCP, tool calling, and agent orchestration frameworks.
- Integrate SAP systems, enterprise APIs, databases, and external services into AI solutions.
- Support deployment on SAP BTP, SAP AI Core, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.
- Participate in customer workshops, discovery sessions, demos, and implementations.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
- Debug production issues and improve reliability and performance.
- Contribute reusable components and documentation.
- Continuously learn emerging AI technologies.

Requirement:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, IT, or related discipline.
- Strong Python programming fundamentals.
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering.
- Basic understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, and RAG.
- Exposure to LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, or similar.
- Knowledge of REST APIs, Git, Docker, SQL/NoSQL.
- Basic Kubernetes, cloud, and CI/CD understanding.
- Exposure to SAP BTP, SAP AI Core, or Joule is a plus.
- Strong analytical thinking, curiosity, and communication.
- Nice to have AI/ML internship or academic projects.
- Exposure to vector databases and knowledge graphs.
- Experience with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code.
- Open-source or hackathon participation.

Benefits:
SAP provides a range of benefits, including opportunities for constant learning, skill growth, and a supportive team environment.