SAP
Principal AI Application Engineer - FDE Intelligent Operations
New York – Hudson Yards, New York, United States · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
About the job
Build and lead SAP’s post-go-live operations for customer-facing AI solutions, establishing the standards and systems that keep them secure, reliable, and scalable.
What you'll do
- Define handover criteria for transitioning AI engagements into production operations; build monitoring, alerting, and incident response capabilities to meet contractual SLAs.
- Establish production quality assurance, security, data-boundary, compliance, and governance practices for AI systems, including drift detection and self-healing capabilities.
- Design scalable operational tooling and processes; mentor engineers and capture operational learnings to improve future delivery.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience with LLM-based systems, agentic workflows, and distributed architectures.
- Deep experience in observability, incident management, and production reliability across cloud environments.
- Experience operating in regulated or enterprise-grade settings involving compliance, security, and operational governance.
- Ability to establish standards and processes and work across delivery squads, platform teams, customers, and external partners.
Tools
LLMs, agentic workflows, distributed architectures, cloud environments, CI/CD
AI focus
Operate and assure the production quality of AI solutions using LLMs and agents, including drift detection, benchmarking, guardrail validation, retraining triggers, and self-healing.
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