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We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging - but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.\nWhat you'll build\nAt SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our culture is built on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. SAP offers a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for individual contributions, and flexible benefit options.\nSAP is looking for an AI Engineer who can turn business problems into practical AI solutions and help ensure the data behind those solutions is accurate, relevant, and ready for use. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys building AI applications while also stepping in as an ad-hoc data scientist to assess source quality, validate assumptions, and improve data readiness across the delivery lifecycle.\nYou will work with cross-functional teams to move high-value AI use cases from discovery to production, balancing speed, technical quality, and real business impact.\nAs an AI Engineer, you will design, build, validate, and operationalize AI solutions that support business and operational teams. You will work across the full delivery lifecycle, from early requirements and prototyping through production readiness and post-launch improvement.\nKey responsibilities include:\nBuild AI and agent-based solutions that solve real business problems and can be deployed in production environments.\nTranslate business needs into technical designs, data requirements, evaluation approaches, and delivery plans.\nAct as an ad-hoc data scientist to assess whether data sources are relevant, complete, trustworthy, and fit for the intended use case.\nExplore, clean, profile, and validate data from enterprise systems to improve model quality and reduce delivery risk.\nDesign and implement prototypes, pipelines, model workflows, orchestration logic, and integration components.\nPartner with business stakeholders, product owners, engineers, and data owners to define success metrics and align on outcomes.\nSupport discovery workshops and early solution design by bringing a strong perspective on technical feasibility and data readiness.\nDefine and execute testing and evaluation approaches for AI solutions, including data validation, output quality, and operational performance.\nPrepare solutions for production by contributing documentation, monitoring requirements, release evidence, and handover materials.\nAnalyze usage, feedback, and impact after launch, then turn those insights into recommendations for improvement, scaling, or redesign.\nShare reusable patterns, lessons learned, and engineering best practices to strengthen overall AI delivery capability across teams.\nWhat you bring\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field.\nStrong hands-on experience in AI engineering, machine learning, data science, software engineering, or a similar role.\nProven ability to take AI or ML solutions from idea to implementation, including data validation, prototyping, testing, deployment, and operational support.\nStrong programming skills in Python and solid SQL experience.\nExperience working with enterprise data, including profiling, quality assessment, transformation, and validation.\nGood understanding of machine learning methods, statistical analysis, model evaluation, and modern AI application patterns.\nExperience building or supporting AI applications, intelligent workflows, copilots, or agent-based solutions is a strong advantage.\nAbility to work in ambiguous environments, structure problems quickly, and make sound technical decisions with incomplete information.\nStrong communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts, trade-offs, and data limitations to non-technical audiences.\nExperience working in cross-functional teams that include business stakeholders, engineers, and governance or compliance partners.\nFamiliarity with human-centered design, discovery workshops, or design-thinking approaches is a plus.\nExperience with production readiness topics such as monitoring, documentation, runbooks, security alignment, and lifecycle support is a plus.\nWhere you belong\nYou will join a team focused on identifying, building, and scaling practical AI use cases that deliver measurable value. The team works closely with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, and operations partners to bring AI solutions into production quickly and responsibly.\nThis environment is ideal for someone who enjoys combining technical depth with business impact, moving from experimentation to deployment, and working across both AI engineering and data validation responsibilities.\nBring out your best\nSAP 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.\nWe win with inclusion\nSAP’s 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 world.\nSAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides 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: .\nFor SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. 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