Associate AI Developer​/AI Developer; Full stack - SAP Labs East Asia

What you'll build

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.

Applicants with relevant experience may be considered for AI Developer role.

• Push the frontiers of what is possible in artificial intelligence to create new solutions.
• Explore, understand, and implement most recent technologies and approaches for cloud applications and data pipelines.
• 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.
• Supports machine learning research / project teams with all aspects around data.
• Build scalable and reusable data processing pipelines.
• Create excellence both in terms of results quality and system scalability through continuous evaluation, analysis, and refinement of the system implementation.
• Work closely with the team, customers, and partners to holistically understand business and user requirements and derive adequate application development concepts.
• Perform quality assurance tasks and solve complex integration issues.
• Be able to work in global teams with different time zones.
• Immerse yourself quickly into new topics, terminology, and development tasks.

• Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 0 to 3 years of working experience as software developer, preferably in AI focused cloud application development.
• A solid foundation in computer science with strong competencies in algorithms, data structures, object‑oriented programming, design patterns, multi‑threaded programming, and software design principles.
• Hands‑on knowledge in at least two of the server / client‑side programming languages such as Java, Scala, Go, Python, Node.js, C++.
• Exposure to Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark and Kafka.
• Hands‑on knowledge of frameworks such as Spring, Play, Angular
  
  JS, Flask etc.
• Fundamental knowledge of container & orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Experience with cloud‑based application development using platforms such as SAP’s business technology platform, AWS, Azure & Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
• 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.

• Hands‑on experience in Shell Scripting, Power Shell.
• Knowledge of UI Design Patterns and Interactions.
• Operational knowledge of Linux distributions such as Redhat, Ubuntu, CentOS, CoreOS.
• Exposure to deployment and container orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, Chef, Ansible.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning fundamentals.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

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Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.