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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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First seen Oct 30, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)