Associate AI Developer (Backend) - Artificial Intelligence, SAP Labs

Key Skills

AWS, Azure, C# Programming, C++, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Python Programming

Job Description

We help the world run better

Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.Apply now! 

About SAP

A market leader in end-to-end business application software, SAP helps more than 425,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift societies, and sustain our environment. Because it’s the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people’s lives. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together.

About SAP Labs Singapore

SAP Labs Singapore is the 20th engineering hub in the SAP Labs Network and is the newest innovation hub at SAP that drives product leadership, fosters the best talent, and aims to boost ecosystem and community engagement with a variety of initiatives.

SAP Labs Singapore has the ambition to expand significantly and become the Embedded Artificial Intelligence Hub for SAP, leveraging on core competencies in the current teams.

Your future team

Artificial Intelligence team as part of SAP Labs Singapore has experienced professionals taking on challenges posed by the SAP customers. Based in Singapore, you will have the opportunity to work on breakthrough projects addressing real-world problems, challenging norms with some of the SAP’s key customers. As part of the global product engineering team, you will participate in rich and engaging conversations with experts around the globe.

SAP Labs Singapore provides an open, modern working environment and the opportunity to become part of the global SAP engineering community.

Purpose and objectives

As an Associate AI Developer / AI Developer, you will work together with a team of dedicated experts including AI scientists, data engineers, dev-ops engineers, and architects with a single goal of building the best-in-class AI products. You will work against fixed timelines and your success will be measured by the ability to deliver solutions matching the performance of top-notch artificial intelligence systems.

Expectations and tasks

Your tasks include:

• Push the frontiers of what is possible in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning so as to create new solutions
• Explore, understand, and implement most recent technologies and approaches for cloud applications
• Comfortably handle multi-terabyte data sets in scale-up and scale-out environments
• Strive for automation and cloud operation readiness
• Understand business processes which create and consume data to be able to select best approaches, evaluate their performance and assess business relevance
• Create excellence both in terms of results quality and system scalability through continuous evaluation, analysis, and refinement of the system implementation
• Communicate the relevance of implemented systems and achieved results in a visual and consistent way
• Work closely with the team, customers and partners to holistically understand business and user requirements and derive adequate application development concepts
• Performing quality assurance tasks
• Solve complex integration issues
• Ability to work in global teams with different time zones
• Immerse yourself quickly into new topics, terminology, and development tasks

Educational and experience requirements

Required

• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 0 to 3 years of working experience as software developer or data engineer in AI focused application development
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in algorithms, data structures, objects-oriented programming, design patterns, multi-threaded programming, and software design principles
• Hands-on knowledge in at least one of the server-side programming languages such as Java, Scala, Go, Python, C#, C++
• Basic knowledge on cloud platforms and their configurations (AWS, Azure & GCP)
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Strong desire to overcome obstacles and make your work benefit SAP's customers
• Excellent written and communication skills in English language
• Willing to start January 2024

Optional

• Operational knowledge of Linux distributions such as Redhat, Ubuntu, SUSE
• Knowledge of container technologies like docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Machine Learning fundamentals

We build breakthroughs together

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 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 200 million users and more than 100,000 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, we build breakthroughs, together.