# Development Architect (f/m/d) - AI Foundation Model Training and Serving

Hiring organization: [SAP](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/sap)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/eb152b73-1590-4f96-90a9-ce1aee4f7b33

Listed on SAP's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Potsdam, DE, 14469

## Summary

Design and lead the AI infrastructure for a distributed platform enabling foundation model training and deployment across enterprises. This role suits architects with deep expertise in large-scale ML systems who can bridge research, product, and engineering teams while navigating complex federated environments.

_Our summary, not SAP's wording._

## Skills named

Federated Learning, Fine-tuning, Model Compression & Quantization, Python

## Required

- 8+ years architecting AI and foundation model solutions
- Hands-on experience designing distributed training systems with cluster orchestration and parallelism strategies
- Knowledge of foundation model fine-tuning including RLHF, DPO, and distillation
- Proficiency in Python and at least one other programming language
- Ability to translate business and research requirements into scalable technical designs
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with technical stakeholders

## Nice to have

- Experience with federated training across organizational boundaries
- Working knowledge of inference serving systems like vLLM
- Understanding of serving trade-offs including batching, KV cache, quantization, and latency versus cost
- Hands-on experience with evaluation pipelines and serving at scale

Apply on SAP's site: https://jobs.sap.com/job/Potsdam-Development-Architect-%28fmd%29-AI-Foundation-Model-Training-and-Serving-14469/1406411233/