Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Joule Platform Services, SAP Labs Singapore

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.

*SAP will be prioritizing candidates with full working rights in Singapore*

Role
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will work together with a team of dedicated experts including data scientists, dev-ops engineers, and product owners with a single goal of building the best-in-class products for SAP. You will work against fixed timelines and your success will be measured by the ability to deliver solutions matching the performance of top-notch autonomous enterprise systems.

What you'll do

Your tasks include:

• Design and build production-grade services for Joule Platform capabilities in Java, Typescript and Python.
• Explore, understand, and implement innovative technologies and approaches for cloud platform and data pipelines.
• Design and define ADR, ACD for the solution on new features or integrations.
• Drive engineering across Architecture, Implementation, Testing, and Delivery of the Product.
• Producing high-quality, maintainable code with an emphasis on modularity, testing, and performance
• Build strong interpersonal relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Mentor junior engineers, performing code reviews, and contributing to a high-performance team culture.
• Represent architecture decisions and technical trade-offs to senior leadership, customers, partners, and the SAP developer community, and drive alignment across teams to ensure Joule Studio, AI Agent Runtime, SAP Business AI Platform
• Solving complex integration and performance challenges across systems, often working across time zones in a global team set

Right attitude:

• Team first attitude. Ensure we win together as a team, closely collaborate with scrum team and other stakeholders.
• Be serious about the Agile methodologies and live with them.
• Challenge the status quo. Always unlearn, relearn. Remember, you will be working on cutting-edge technologies every day, you see a revolution.

What you bring
Educational and experience requirements
Required

• Exceptional degree in computer science, software engineering, or related.
• 7+ years of related professional experience in software development, cloud solution and microservices.
• Strong experience as a software architect, cloud architect, senior technical lead, with a hands-on engineering background.
• Ability to translate product strategy, customer needs, and technical constraints into pragmatic architecture and guide teams through execution.
• Hands-on experience with the agentic stack: harness frameworks such as LangChain, skills, evaluations, observability, protocols such as MCP, A2A, ACP, and RAG.
• Cloud-native delivery experience in Python, TypeScript, or Java on SAP BTP or a hyperscaler, including Kubernetes and CI/CD.
• Deep understanding of API design, platform governance, security, observability, and enterprise integration patterns. Experience in event-driven solution, and container patterns. Familiar to Kafka, Karate and Jmeter, Dynatrace.
• Experience in agile development/Scrum processes and cloud deliveries.
• A team-oriented and collaborative mindset and the ability to thrive in team environments, contributing positively to shared goals and fostering a culture of cooperation and innovation.
• Excellent written and communication skills in the English language

Preferred

• Experience with SAP Business Technology Platform
• Experience with Agents, Knowledge Graph, RAG, Large Language Models

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.

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