Senior AI Engineer: Agentic Systems & MLOps

SAP SE; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 198,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

The SAP SE Office of the CTO for IndustryAI seeks a Principal AI Developer in Palo Alto for end-to-end AI-native systems. You will own design, implementation, and evaluation of complex AI-powered workloads, guiding engineers and collaborating with architects, data scientists, and product managers.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive production-grade solutions, and focus on observable, scalable AI systems within a cloud-native, enterprise SaaS context.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of professional software-engineering experience, preferably in cloud or enterprise SaaS.
• Hands-on experience shipping AI-native, agentic systems — you write the code and set the bar.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-native and agentic systems end-to-end.
• Own the hardest engineering problems in your capability area.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on implementation and design tradeoffs.
• Partner with architects, data scientists, and product management to translate objectives into working systems.

Skills

Software engineering

AI/ML systems

Distributed systems

Technical communication

Python

Go

Education

CS degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The SAP SE Office of the CTO for IndustryAI seeks a Principal AI Developer in Palo Alto for end-to-end AI-native systems. You will own design, implementation, and evaluation of complex AI-powered workloads, guiding engineers and collaborating with architects, data scientists, and product managers.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive production-grade solutions, and focus on observable, scalable AI systems within a cloud-native, enterprise SaaS context.