Chief AI Expert

Job Description

We help the world run better
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. 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.

Meet your team

Product, Data & Technology - Tools India is responsible for defining, designing & developing applications that support product development at SAP.

We are the team responsible for several innovative applications including:

• Hyperspace (SAP’s official internal development platform)
• SAP Jira (SAP’s official backlog management tool with over 100,000 end-users)
• Lucid Capacity (simplified capacity management for development)
• SAP Transformation Navigator (provides guidance to SAP customers on charting their path to an intelligent enterprise. Winner of the 2017 Hasso Plattner Award)
• AI Pair Programming with GitHub Copilot

We aim for excellence in our work and prioritize developing strong professional relationships and having fun at work.

With teams in Walldorf, Palo Alto, Sofia, Paris and Bangalore, we offer an open, collaborative and international environment for continuous learning and career development!

What you'll do

• Define and execute our internal AI strategy and roadmap.
• Identify, assess, and prioritize high-impact AI use cases.
• Establish the AI operating model (intake, governance, standards & playbooks).
• Architect and deliver flagship multi-agent platforms and autonomous workflows that improve SAP’s internal productivity tools.
• Lead strategic evaluation, vendor selection, and long-term partnerships for third-party foundation models, cloud AI services, and open-source ecosystem.
• Technically lead and mentor a team of AI Experts and AI Developers while maintaining strong hands-on coding and prototyping.
• Drive SAP’s thought leadership in enterprise Agentic AI through patents, open-source contributions, conference talks, and publications.
• Drive responsible AI governance (policies, risk management, privacy, security and audit readiness).
• Drive AI change management and enablement.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Over 15 years of IT experience in technology, product and data roles.
• Over 5 years of experience in Artificial Intelligence.

Must have skills

• Strong AI foundations incl. GenAI, LLM concepts (transformers, prompting, RAG, function-calling, fine-tuning, adapters).
• Enterprise Architecture for AI: APIs, Microservices, Security & Integration.
• Agentic AI concepts and protocols (Model Context Protocol, Agent-to-Agent protocol, Agent Communication Protocol)
• Distributed Computing Systems for Big Data engineering such as Databricks (PySpark/Scala).
• Strategic planning and portfolio management (including business case development, financial modeling, efficiency gains, total cost of ownership et al).
• Executive communication and influence: Clear and concise writing for stakeholder communication (strategy papers, decision memos et al).
  
  

Nice to have skills:

• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Machine Learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn).
• Advanced prompting, fine-tuning, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and evaluations.
• Expertise in multi-agent systems using state-of-the-art frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, DSPy)
• DevOps and MLOps practices.

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
SAP’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.

SAP 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: Careers@sap.com.

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.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

We are ethical and compliant
Our leadership credo: Do what’s right. Make SAP better for generations to come. We believe that great leadership extends far beyond the mere pursuit of business goals. We value and foster leadership that is driven with purpose and integrity. Our leaders are role models who uphold SAP’s values and shape SAP’s culture of integrity, by demonstrating and championing ethical and compliant behavior towards all stakeholders.

AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process.

Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

Requisition ID: 439724 | Work Area: Software-Development Operations | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid