Staff Software Engineer - AI

Summary

Join SAP LeanIX as a Staff Software Engineer - AI and play a pivotal role in fostering an AI-first culture within the Product & Engineering departments. Collaborate with a fast-paced team to explore cutting-edge AI advancements, apply them to product development, and integrate solutions into production features. Lead the evolution of AI architecture, build internal GenAI tools, and validate new approaches. The ideal candidate possesses strong software engineering expertise, understands Generative AI concepts, and promotes a test-driven development approach. This role requires experience building AI evaluation pipelines, expertise in prompt engineering and RAG, and a proven ability to solve customer problems. Bonus points for deep machine learning experience and full-stack capabilities.

Requirements

• Has a strong software engineering experience and can build end end solutions
• Is used to working and communicating across multiple teams and across the engineering org
• Understands machine learning concepts behind Generative AI
• Promotes a test-driven approach to building AI features
• Is interested in latest developments in the field of Generative AI, and has used it in business scenarios. Experiments and uses the latest technology hands on
• Is customer oriented, wants to understand and build the right thing for the customers
• Is proactive, curious and eager to learn
• Likes to work on prototypes and explores new approaches, but knows how to build rock solid final solutions
• Knowledge of the concepts behind AI systems
• Experience building evaluation pipelines for AI and managing experiments
• Expertise in prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and AI Agents
• Hands-on experience with building, extending and improving Generative AI systems
• Staff level software engineering experience to build a working end-to-end solution with high quality
• Shared knowledge broadly or mentored people/teams within your previous company
• Proven focus on solving customer problems and delivering value
• Hands-on mentality paired with strong curiosity
• Excellent communication skills in English

Responsibilities

• Collaborate within a small fast moving team to stay on top of latest advancements in AI
• Work on discovery projects to learn and apply latest AI advancements to our product
• Help teams integrate solutions from discovery into real features in production
• Lead the evolution of our AI architecture and supporting technology
• Build new internal tools to help the company leverage GenAI better
• Validate new approaches and spread learnings through all teams at LeanIX

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep machine learning and statistics experience
• Can cover the full stack
• Prior knowledge in the domain of Enterprise Architecture Management

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Remote work, flexible hours