AI Forward Deployed Engineer – SAP Ariba

Zip

AI Engineer embedding with enterprise customers to enhance procurement processes using AI solutions. Managing customer relationships and developing integrations within complex procurement environments.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $130,000 - $170,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Embed with enterprise customers to understand their procurement and adjacent workflows at the process level: how work actually moves, where decisions break down, and where the highest-ROI problems sit.
Build and deploy AI agent solutions using Zip's AppStudio and AI infrastructure, configured to the customer's specific environment and data, not off-the-shelf.
Own the customer relationship and manage parallel workstreams across a small portfolio of accounts, keeping delivery on track and stakeholder trust high.
Surface the next problem worth solving before the customer can articulate it, with the commercial instinct to understand how that expands contract value.
Produce architecture documentation that captures what was built, why, and what it would take to generalize across other accounts.
Feed structured learnings back to product and engineering so the solutions you build make the platform more repeatable over time.
Represent Zip on-site at customer locations when required, running live testing and stakeholder sessions against real data and real workflows.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years working directly with SAP Ariba
Direct experience building with AI: AI agents or automated workflows using Claude, N8N, Make, Zapier, or similar. You can show something you built to the team.
A track record of owning complex customer engagements independently, from scoping through delivery, with accountability for outcomes rather than just outputs.
Enough technical fluency to build integrations, read API documentation, and diagnose workflow failures without needing an engineer on call.

Benefits

Comp & perks

📈 Start-up equity
🦷 Health, vision & dental coverage
🍽️ Catered lunches & dinners for hybrid employees
🚍 Commuter benefit for hybrid employees
🚠 Team building events & happy hours
🌴 Flexible PTO
💻 Apple equipment plus home office budget

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI Agent SolutionsAutomated WorkflowsIntegration DevelopmentAPI Documentation ReadingArchitecture Documentation

Soft Skills

Stakeholder ManagementCommercial InstinctProblem-Solving