Senior AI Engineer
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Job Description
We help the world run better
At SAP we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences values flexibility and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development recognition for your individual contributions and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.
The development center of SAP in Bulgaria plays a key role in the defining and developing of the SAP Business Technology Platform. With its more than 2000 professionals SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions toward life-cycle management user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products and business applications. Most recently SAP Labs Bulgaria expanded in the topics of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. For its 25-year history the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria.
What youll do
We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer who can drive (gen)AI development and lead our engineering scrum teams as technical code and architecture owner. The candidate will have profound skills in Data Science Data Engineering and Software Engineering for our IT agile team with an entrepreneurial spirit to join our diverse team and work on innovation projects.
The Role
In this role you will drive internal AI adoption across different Lines of Business (LOBs) within the company. You will collaborate with other engineers to develop AI services taking projects from proof of concept to full production deployment. This position involves close partnership with AI Platform engineers and stakeholders from various departments. You will work with cross-functional teams to contribute to our evolving AI-first tech stack address diverse and rapidly changing challenges and thrive in a fast-paced environment that offers continuous learning. Additionally you will help define and promote best practices for AI engineering excellence throughout the organization.
Responsibilities
Lead anddevelop AI services from PoC to Production
Setup and develop new Big Data pipelines to productize data ETL workloads for different AI services.
Develop GenAI/AgenticAI solution designs
Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.
Productionize AI PoCs with good software engineering by incorporating CI/CD pipelines deployment and MLOps/LLMOps.
Take ownership over AI services in development and production
Guide and mentor junior colleagues and evolve their AI engineering skillset
What you bring
Bachelors or masters degree in machine learning computer science engineering or related technical fields
Vast coding knowledge in Python
Knowledge of Distributed Computing Systems for Big Data Engineering such as Databricks (PySpark/Scala)is beneficial
Exceptional understanding and coding experience of genAI/ agenticAI frameworks such as crewAI / langgraph etc.
Proven hands-on expertise in code-based LLM consumption from platforms such as OpenAI or Huggingface
Track record of using Python backend development frameworks such as e.g. Flask Django Quart or FastAPI
Vast general software engineering best-practices (e.g. Object-Oriented Programming) and experience working in a scrum-like software engineering unit.
Productization technologies and tools such as Docker K8s GitHub VSCode Linux etc.
CI/CD and ML Ops frameworks such as Jenkins GitHub Actions MLFlow etc.
Cloud-deployment offerings such as Azure ML Databricks AKS Event Hubs Azure Data Factory Azure Functions or similar in AWS / GCP
Some form of code ownership and scrum team leadership experience
Curiosity to learn about different AI applications and new technologies in general
Excellent spoken and written knowledge of English as well as collaborative mindset
Experience with SAP AI offerings e.g. AI Core AI Business Services Joule etc. is a plus
Understanding of Agile / Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodologies is a plus
Meet your team
SAP Intelligent Enterprise Solutions (IES) department has the purpose to Deliver and Run the Intelligent Enterprise. IES is SAPs technology backbone and most compelling reference customer and as such we influence product development and strategy with our customer experience at heart.
Within IES our Artificial Intelligence CoE team has the purpose to help SAP to transform into a data-driven intelligent enterprise by empowering SAP employees to simplify processes leveraging AI technologies. Our vision is to be an advocate and enabler of best-in-class AI within SAP. Our mission is to deliver business value through AI in SAPs processes and be recognized as AI Thought Leader in the market.
We implement both standard SAP AI and custom built solutions across all LoBs. We are customer zero of SAP standard AI solutions and provide continuous feedback to standard development for product improvement. We provide an AI Platform and Infrastructure to entire SAP AI practitioners for building their own ML solutions in the entire ML lifecycle following MLOps methodology. Furthermore we build and operate a central chatbot platform based on SAP Conversational AI with the aim to provide capabilities from all lines of business through a single digital assistant. We also build those capabilities (individual chatbots) as well as support other teams in building further ones.
Within our team we practice a trust-based working model with emphasis on great collaboration agility and transparency. We offer a lot of room for creativity and freedom to experiment. Our operating model is based on autonomous/agile team concept (SAFe) and SAP New Work practice where we put people at the center of everything we do.
Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database analytics intelligent technologies and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide we are purpose-driven and future-focused with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries people or platforms we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves.At SAPyou can bring out your best.
We win with inclusion
SAPs culture of inclusion focus on health and well-being and flexible working models help ensure that everyone regardless of background feels included and can run at their best. At SAP we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team:
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.
EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age race religion national origin ethnicity age gender (including pregnancy childbirth et al) sexual orientation gender identity or expression protected veteran status or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.
Requisition ID: 431839 Work Area: Software-Design and Development Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
