Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is a leader in the lawn and garden industry, and they are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to support their migration to SAP S/4HANA. This role involves building AI workflows and automating various business processes while ensuring the integration of AI into core ERP functions.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Joule assistants and Joule agents that automate finance, supply chain, R&D, procurement, manufacturing, and HR workflows in S/4HANA
- Build agentic experiences on top of SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) data products — turning curated data into RAG, decision-support, and action-taking agents
- Architect and deploy AI workflows on SAP BTP using AI Core, AI Launchpad, Generative AI Hub, HANA Cloud Vector Engine, and Build Process Automation
- Champion a fit-to-standard approach: extend SAP cleanly via BTP side-by-side extensibility, key-user tools, and standard APIs rather than core modification
- Partner with functional and data leads to translate business processes into agent capabilities, tool calls, prompts, and guardrails grounded in SAP master and transactional data
- Define the reference architecture for prompt engineering, model selection, evaluation, observability, and human-in-the-loop review across the SAP landscape
- Implement responsible-AI controls: data classification, PII handling, role-based access, audit trails, and alignment with SAP's AI ethics and our enterprise policies
- Lead the AI workstream of the S/4HANA migration — including sandbox experimentation, MVPs, hypercare, and the operating model for ongoing AI delivery
- Mentor analysts, developers, and functional teams on responsible use of Joule, GenAI, and agent patterns inside SAP
Skills
- 8+ years of overall engineering experience, with at least 3 years building production AI / ML / GenAI solutions in an enterprise setting
- Hands-on experience with SAP — S/4HANA (public or private cloud preferred), including a working understanding of fit-to-standard ERP delivery and clean-core principles
- Production experience on SAP BTP, specifically AI Core, AI Launchpad, and Generative AI Hub; comfortable deploying, versioning, and monitoring models and prompts there
- Working knowledge of SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) — data products, intelligent data lineage, and how to expose BDC data to AI agents safely
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python and/or Node/TypeScript; experience with REST/OData/GraphQL, event-driven patterns, and CI/CD
- Practical experience with LLM application patterns: RAG, function/tool calling, agentic orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, and cost/latency optimization
- Experience integrating SAP with non-SAP systems via SAP Integration Suite (CPI), Event Mesh, or equivalent middleware
- Demonstrated ability to work directly with business stakeholders and translate ambiguous requirements into shippable AI workflows
- Experience with SAP Datasphere, HANA Cloud (including Vector Engine), and SAP Analytics Cloud
- Hands-on with SAP Build (Apps, Code, Process Automation) and CAP / RAP extensibility
- ABAP / ABAP Cloud, CDS views, and Fiori UX familiarity for embedded AI scenarios
- Experience deploying agentic frameworks (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI) and evaluating them against SAP-native agent tooling
- Exposure to MLOps tooling (MLflow, Kubeflow, Vertex AI, Azure ML, AWS Bedrock/SageMaker) and how to bridge them with SAP AI Core
- SAP certifications (S/4HANA, BTP, AI) or comparable demonstrable expertise
Benefits
- Live Total Health program provides you with options to align to your personal needs. Selections range from medical, dental and vision coverage for you, your spouse/domestic partner and dependents to an outstanding wellness reimbursement program to an unbelievable 401K match (up to 7.5%) as well as a 15% discount on company stock and much more
- Career growth at our company is not always a ladder. It’s much more like a rock climbing adventure. Grow through exploration and experiences rather than a predictable linear path.
- We provide access to Maven Family Planning and up to $30,000 to accommodate for adoption, fertility and surrogacy.
- Employee Resource Groups focusing on diversity and inclusion, family, education and sustainability: Scotts Women’s Network, Scotts Black Employees’ Network, Scotts Veterans Network, Scotts Young Professionals, Scotts Pride Network (GroPride), Scotts Associates for a Greener Earth (SAGE), Scotts Family TREE and our Associate Boards.
- We have a shared passion for service and volunteerism and believe participating in community service benefits our communities and strengthens our team.
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