Senior AIML Engineer Agentic AI
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Irvine, 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.
Foundation Model Team Newport Beach CA
Summary
Werebuilding specialized foundation models and AI agents that accelerate SAP customers data transformation journeys.
The agents you build will directly power SAPs Autonomous Enterprisewhere AI runs core business processes end-to-end across finance supply chain HR and procurement atglobalscale.
Youllset technical direction define how we architect and scale multi-agent systems and raise the engineering bar across a global directly with pretraining and fine-tuning team leads in Europe India and early-adopter customers.
We want someone who has shipped agentic systems in production and knows where they break.
Whatyoulldo
Architect and lead multi-agent systems: design orchestration patterns failure modes memory planning and human-in-the-loop
Own the path from prototype to production: containerization guardrails cost and latency optimization scalable serving
Define the teams evaluation strategy: offline/online harnesses trajectory quality tool-call accuracy regression testing CI/CD eval gates
Lead instrumentation and observability: tracing span capture automated scoring closing the trace eval fix loop
Drive tool integration architecture via MCP across multiple product teams
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code and architecture reviews; set engineering standards
What you bring
Education:BS MS or PhD in Computer Science ML or a related field.
Experience:6 years building and shipping ML systems with 3 years hands-on with LLMs and agents in production.
Core technical skills
Expert Python; strong fundamentals: system design testing modularity async API design
PyTorch; working knowledge of fine-tuning and PEFT methods (LoRAQLoRA)
LLM application development: prompting structured outputs tool calling context management
Inference optimization:vLLMTensorRT-LLM quantization (int8 int4 GPTQ AWQ)
Human-in-the-loop annotation workflows at scale
Agent frameworks and orchestration(production experience with at least three)
LangGraph/LangChain
CrewAIAutoGen/AG2 or equivalent
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Coding agents: Claude CodeOpenCode or similar
Evaluation and observability(production experience with at least two)
LangfuseLangSmithArize or equivalent
LLM-as-judge evaluators CI/CD eval gates
Leadership
Demonstratedtrack recordmentoring engineers and raising team technical quality
Drives decisions in ambiguous fast-moving environments
Writes design docs that earn buy-in acrossteams
Nice to have
Continued pretraining or fine-tuning pipelines (SFT DPO RLHF)
Meet your team
The Foundation Model team is part of the Generative AI foundation within Business AI at SAP. We build domain-specialized foundation models on SAP business data through continued pretraining and fine-tuning and we build the agentic layer that brings them into SAP products.
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
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 world.
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Requisition ID: 457862 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
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
