SAP

Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Agent Engineering)

SAP$106K — $229K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5+ years in software engineering (full-stack or backend)
  • Experience building API-driven systems and integrations
  • Familiarity with LLMs or AI-based systems
  • Preferred: Experience with agent systems, orchestration frameworks, or AI tooling

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy agentic systems for enterprise workflows
  • Collaborate directly with customers and cross-functional teams
  • Develop agentic harnesses to accelerate development
  • Own full-stack implementation and integrations
  • Design orchestration, reasoning, and workflows
  • Ensure reliability, safety, and production readiness

Benefits

  • Work in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment
  • Direct collaboration with customers
  • Opportunity to design and build complete systems
  • Involvement in the rapidly evolving field of AI
  • Focus on practical implementations that deliver business value
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are building a new model for enterprise software: working directly with customers to design, build, and deploy AI agents that automate real workflows and decision-making in production within weeks-not quarters.

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you will partner directly with customers and product managers to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI agent systems that operate at scale-handling real business processes and high-volume interactions. You will own the end-to-end implementation of these systems, from architecture and integrations to deployment and iteration in live environments.

This is a high-ownership, fast-paced role at the intersection of engineering and customer delivery. You are expected to move quickly from concept to production, building full-stack solutions and agentic systems that are reliable, scalable, and continuously improving.

This is a deeply hands-on role. You are expected to design and build complete systems, create tooling and harnesses to accelerate development, and use modern AI tools to prototype, debug, and iterate rapidly-not just contribute isolated components.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy agentic systems for enterprise workflows
    Design and implement AI agents (and multi-agent systems) that reason and retrieve data across complex business processes and take action in enterprise systems.
  • Collaborate directly with customers and cross-functional teams
    Work closely with customer stakeholders to refine solutions, test prototypes, and ensure they meet real-world needs.
  • Develop agentic harnesses to accelerate development
    Create evaluation frameworks, toolchains, and workflows that enable rapid iteration and improve system reliability.
  • Own full-stack implementation and integrations
    Build across LLMs, APIs, backend systems, and lightweight UIs to deliver complete, working solutions.
  • Design orchestration, reasoning, and workflows
    Architect how agents plan, use tools, and coordinate across complex, multi-step processes.
  • Ensure reliability, safety, and production readiness
    Implement guardrails, validation logic, and fallback mechanisms to ensure consistent and trustworthy behavior in production.


Qualifications

  • 3-5+ years in software engineering (full-stack or backend)
  • Experience building API-driven systems and integrations
  • Familiarity with LLMs or AI-based systems
  • Preferred: Experience with agent systems, orchestration frameworks, or AI tooling


What Success Looks Like

  • Ship production-ready agent systems rapidly
  • Build tooling that increases team velocity
  • Deliver reliable systems in complex enterprise environments

Requisition ID: 454803 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

Requisition ID: 454803

Posted Date: Jun 5, 2026

Work Area: Software-Design and Development

Career Status: Professional

Employment Type: Regular Full Time

Expected Travel: 0 - 10%

Location:

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