Principal Agentic AI Engineer
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Palo Alto, CA - USA
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Job Summary
We help the world run better
At SAP we keep it simple: you bring your best to us and well bring out the best in you. Were builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce and we need your unique talents to help shape whats next. The work is challenging but it matters. Youll find a place where you can be yourself prioritize your wellbeing and truly belong. Whats in it for you Constant learning skill growth great benefits and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.
Drive AI-enabled innovation and production-ready solutions on SAP Business Techology Platform (BTP)!
We are seeking a Principal Agentic AI Engineerto join theBTP Product Management Regional Implementation Group (RIG) a hands-on team that brings the latest SAP technologies to life with early adopter customers across the Americas.
In this role you will combine deep engineering expertise AI knowledge and practical problem-solving skills to implement production-intentusingSAP Business AI Platform specifically Joule Studio 2.0and related services. You will work closely with customers product managers and architects to turn emerging SAP capabilities into real-worldapplications andhelp shape the evolution of SAP technologies through actionable product feedback.
If you are energized by solving complex technical challenges experimenting with cutting-edge AI and building solutions that make a tangible impact for customers this role provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of innovation architecture and implementation excellence.
What youll build:
Work with customers across the Americas to architect and deliver production-intent solutions onSAP Business AI Platformwith a focus on AI-enabled scenarios including custom agents intelligent applications and intelligent workflows such as n8n.
Partner with your product manager development architect and customer teams to deliver high-quality solutions translating business requirements into scalable architectures functional designs and maintainable implementations.
Stay on top of the latest SAP product releases and emerging technologies evaluating their suitability for customer scenarios identifying trade-offs and proposing optimal implementation approaches.
Collaborate on structured product feedback for each engagement engaging with SAP Product Management and Architecture teams to ensure real-world insights inform product direction.
Contribute to sample implementations reference architectures configuration examples and developer enablement materials accelerating adoption of new SAP technologies both internally and with customers.
Serve as a technical mentor and subject-matter expert helping teams apply best practices experiment safely with new AI approaches and deliver production-ready solutions with confidence.
What you bring:
University degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field; 8 years of softwaredevelopment experiencebuilding and shipping production systems.
Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals. You are equally comfortable building frontend experiencesbackend services APIs and data integrations and you know how to make them work together in complex customerlandscapes.
Proficient in backend languages (Python Java or Go) and modern frontend frameworks (React Angular Vue or UI5).Comfortable with Docker cloud-native development (AWS Azure GCP or SAP BTP) APIdesign DevOps & CI/CD pipelines.
Practical AI expertise: generative AI LLM orchestration prompt engineering RAG patterns have moved beyond prototyping and built and maintained AI-powered solutions in production.
Developmentexperience building agents using modern frameworks and protocols (MCP A2A LangGraph CrewAIor similar);you haveshipped working agents not justexperimentedwith them.
Understanding LLM production concerns: grounding guardrails latency cost optimization andobservability.
Experience implementing human-in-the-loop (HITL) workflows for safety-critical or compliance-sensitiveautomated operations.
Familiarity with knowledge graphs vector storesrelational databasesand embedding pipelines the retrieval and groundinginfrastructure that agents depend on.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills capable of working directly with customers developers architects and technical teams to translate business problems into working software.
A natural networker with a cloud-first mindset able to thrive in a globally distributed cross-culturalenvironment.
Passionate about lifelong learning experimentation and turning ambitious AI ideas into workingproduction-grade solutions.
SAP Ecosystem (a strong plus):
Experience developing on SAP BTP / SAP Build/JouleStudioor working with SAP AI Core.
Internal candidateswithdeep SAP technology expertise who are eager to apply it to AI-enabled scenarios are strongly encouragedto apply.
We knowthatno single person checks every box. If you bring strong engineering depth and a genuine drive to build AI-powered solutions whether your background is in SAP technologies open-source AIagenticsystems or amix of all three wed love to hear from you.
Where you belong:
As part of theBTP Product Management Regional Implementation Group (RIG) you will help bring early-stage SAP innovations into real customer environments.
RIG is a hands-on unit within SAP BTP Product Management focused on accelerating customer adoption of emerging SAP technologies. You will work with early adopter customers to define implement and scale AI-centric scenarios creating production-ready reference cases and providing tangible product feedback that shapes SAPs product roadmap from the earliest stages.
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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 SAP you can bring out your best.
We win with inclusion
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Requisition ID: 448945 Work Area: Software-Design and Development Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid
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About Company
SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. That’s why we engineer soluti ... View more
