Development Expert - Industry AI Energy & Natural Resources

About the role

SAP is hiring a Development Expert for its Applied AI Builders pod, a small, hands-on team working closely with the CTO for Industry AI ENR. The pod turns ambiguous problems and half-formed ideas into prototypes, proofs and production-ready outcomes, sometimes embedded with a product team and other times stress-testing raw ideas. It suits someone who thrives in ambiguity and wants to supervise AI rather than trust it.

Key responsibilities

• Build and own the architectures, guardrails and evaluation strategies for key missions, including ontology-driven agents and their comparison to prompt-based systems
• Decide, with evidence, which initiatives to scale, adapt, hand back to product teams or retire
• Mentor other builders in the pod and partner with the CTO on hard investment calls
• Act as the technical anchor of the pod, setting the standard for AI-native engineering

Required profile

• Deep experience architecting AI-native systems (LLMs, advanced RAG, multi-agent, ontology-grounded agents) and running them on SAP BTP at scale
• Strong on eval strategy, benchmarking and guardrails
• Able to supervise Claude-style generators for architecture, code and ideas, and to challenge their choices
• End-to-end ownership, bias for action and critical thinking

Required skills

• Stack varies by mission: Python, TypeScript, Terraform, BTP, Joule Studio, CAP, Fiori
• Ability to supervise AI code generators and make sound architectural judgments