Senior Developer, AI Incubation – fixed-term contract

At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we’ll bring out the best in you. We’re builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what’s next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You’ll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What’s in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

Location: Sofia, Bulgaria (3 times a week office attendance is mandatory)

Start date: asap

This is 1 year fixed-term paid contract.

Three Reasons to Join Our Team

1. Build at the Forefront of AI: Work on the most challenging and exciting problems in technology. You won’t just be a coder; you’ll be a critical builder, turning ambitious ideas from our research team into tangible, working prototypes.
2. Accelerate Delivery and Impact: Join a fast-paced, agile team where your primary focus is to ship high-quality code and deliver results. Your work will directly contribute to turning cutting-edge concepts into functional, incremental solutions.
3. Deepen Your Technical Expertise: As a senior member, your influence will come from your exceptional coding skills and delivery speed. Contribute to a culture of technical excellence through high-quality implementation and collaborative problem-solving.

About the Team

We’re the AI Incubation team, a global group that thrives on a mix of on-site collaboration and virtual teamwork. Our culture is open, fast-paced, and innovative, with a strong focus on learning, experimentation, and rapid delivery. To accelerate our mission, we are looking for a seasoned and pragmatic Senior Developer to significantly increase our engineering horsepower and deliver a continuous stream of AI solutions.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Developer, you will be a core engine of our technical delivery. Your primary mission is to write excellent code and build robust, incremental AI solutions. You will be a hands-on practitioner, responsible for turning our team’s innovative designs and research into functional, high-quality software at a rapid pace.

In this role, you’ll:

• Develop and Implement AI Solutions: Focus on hands-on development to build, test, and refine high-impact AI prototypes, with a strong emphasis on Generative AI, LLMs, and multimodal systems.
• Write Exceptional Code: Consistently deliver clean, efficient, and scalable code, primarily in Python, that serves as a benchmark for quality on the team.
• Deliver End-to-End Functionality: Take well-defined features and requirements and implement them from the data pipeline through to the backend service, ensuring a fully functional result.
• Rapidly Iterate and Deliver: Work in fast-paced sprints to build and release incremental improvements and features, transforming research findings into tangible application updates.
• Collaborate on Technical Solutions: Work closely with architects and researchers to understand requirements and provide expert input on implementation details, ensuring our solutions are robust and well-crafted.
• Contribute to Code Quality: Participate actively in code reviews, offering constructive feedback and embracing opportunities to improve the team’s collective codebase.
• Deploy and Maintain Applications: Utilize your expertise in cloud platforms and containerization to deploy, monitor, and maintain our applications and experiments.

Who You Are

We are looking for a hands-on, pragmatic, and experienced developer who is passionate about building with AI. You are a natural problem-solver who thrives on writing code and seeing it come to life in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment.

• An Experienced Coder: You have significant professional experience in software development, with proven expertise in Python and its ecosystem.
• A Hands-on AI Practitioner: You have demonstrable experience building and working with Machine Learning models and systems. Direct experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and frameworks like LangChain, TensorFlow, or PyTorch is a major plus.
• A Cloud Native: You possess strong experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and are proficient with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• A Pragmatic Builder: You are a ‘doer’ at heart. You thrive on turning complex requirements into simple, elegant, and working code. You have a strong “get it done” attitude.
• A Collaborative Teammate: You have excellent communication skills in English and are a strong individual contributor who also excels in a team environment. You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping the team succeed through your work.
• Pragmatic and Adaptable: You are comfortable with ambiguity and can navigate a rapidly evolving technology landscape, making smart implementation decisions to move projects forward.

What You’ll Gain in This Role

• Deep, Hands-on Experience: The opportunity to focus purely on building with the latest advancements in AI before they become mainstream.
• Tangible Impact: A key role where your direct contribution of code translates immediately into progress and functional prototypes.
• A Culture of Speed: A collaborative, low-bureaucracy environment where you are empowered to build, ship, and iterate quickly without being bogged down.
• Continuous Learning: Stay at the peak of your technical craft by working alongside top researchers and engineers on novel challenges.

Ready to Apply?

If you are a talented developer who loves to code and wants to apply your skills to some of the most exciting challenges in technology today, we want to hear from you. Join us and build the future.

Please submit your CV to apply. We look forward to learning more about you and what you’ve built

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand 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 two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand 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, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

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AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

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Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

Requisition ID: 436816 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 – 10% | Career Status: Graduate | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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