Senior Software Engineer - AI (f/m/d)

The "Senior software engineer - AI” will play a critical role in developing an AI-first mindset within the Product & Engineering departments at SAP LeanIX and push the boundaries of our understanding and usage of the latest technology. The role includes the following responsibilities:

• Define and evolve the LeanIX AI architecture
• 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
• Validate new approaches and spread learnings through all teams at LeanIX

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for an experienced engineer who:

• Has a strong background in machine learning and enough software engineering experience to build end to end solutions if needed
• Is interested in latest developments in the field of Generative AI, and has used it in business scenarios
• 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

You bring in the following experience:

• Machine learning experience and knowledge of the concepts behind AI systems
• Expertise in prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and AI agents
• Hands-on experience with extending and improving Generative AI systems
• Software engineering experience to build a working end to end solution
• Shared knowledge or mentored people/teams within your previous company
• Proven focus on solving customer problems and delivering value
• Hands-on mentality paired with a strong curiosity
• Excellent communication skills in English

You bring in as a bonus:

• Can cover the full stack
• Prior knowledge in the domain of Enterprise Architecture Management

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE? Well, there are a number of reasons:

• We're on a strong growth trajectory in terms of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and team size while scaling in a sustainable and profitable way. Specifically, you’ll participate in the growth and bring in your strategic perspective as well as your personal network to extend our AI tribe to 3-4 team members.
• We value customer-centricity above an “know-it-all” attitude. Our LeanIX product is industry-leading with happy customers and a NPS of 65+. Our culture of empowered product development teams enables engineers to solve customer problems instead of just implementing and shipping well-defined features. You’ll not only shape our engineering organization, you’ll participate in defining our products as well.
• We build it, we run it. We ensure highly-available and easy-to-use products. We stay ahead of trouble through a high degree of automation, alerting, SRE and on-call practices. There is no dedicated operations department in place at LeanIX.
• We prioritize continuous improvement, collaboration and knowledge sharing. We constantly iterate on our engineering practices and skills to build a software architecture that supports fun at work and long term success of the business.
• We value open access to leadership, transparency and personal development. We successfully enabled many software engineers to grow along with the company into engineering manager or technical lead positions. You’ll continue this success story while we offer you opportunities to grow.
• We value a healthy life balance and our employees make room for interests and relations outside of their job. We offer a hybrid working environment, providing a high grade of flexibility while meeting colleagues in one of our offices from time to time.