--- title: 'Customer Facing SAP Engineer at Nova Intelligence' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/customer-facing-sap-engineer-nova-intelligence-new-york-8y7dq18j2gcq' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Customer Facing SAP Engineer at Nova Intelligence - **Company:** Nova Intelligence - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-04-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence/df12f53e-d3af-4af7-a23b-dc019f379740 ## Job description Nova Intelligence is building the frontier AI platform for SAP teams. SAP is the heart of the enterprise: almost every critical business process at the world's largest companies — finance, supply chain, manufacturing, sales — runs on SAP. Our customers use Nova to 3x the productivity of their SAP teams: modernizing legacy code, redesigning business processes, resolving production issues, and more. Nova Intelligence was founded by AI researchers, repeat entrepreneurs, and the co-inventor of SAP HANA, and has raised $40M from SAP.io http://SAP.io, Accel, Conviction, and Chemistry. [Check out the Launch Video] https://player.mux.com/Ji004bNMQjBGUJvK5R4Yet6VTE9yASS6qQVLBwuB9ETI?poster=https://image.mux.com/Ji004bNMQjBGUJvK5R4Yet6VTE9yASS6qQVLBwuB9ETI/thumbnail.jpg?time%3D26%26width%3D1280%26height%3D720%26fit_mode%3Dcrop&metadata-video-title=Nova+-+AI+Platform+for+SAP+Custom+Code&video-title=Nova+-+AI+Platform+for+SAP+Custom+Code&primary-color=%23ffffff ## ABOUT THIS ROLE We're hiring customer-facing engineers to drive the adoption and success of Nova for our customers. You'll own POCs and enterprise deployments, prove the platform's value in complex customer environments, and guide enterprise SAP teams from initial deployment through long-term, expanding usage. You'll also serve as the highest-bandwidth channel between our customers and our product team. This is a technical role: it requires real SAP expertise, fluency in the Nova platform, hands-on debugging skill and the ability to communicate clearly with both developers and executives. ## WHAT YOU'LL DO Drive adoption and prove value. You'll own POCs and enterprise deployments at our most important customers — picking the right use cases, configuring Nova against their systems, training customers on using Nova, demonstrating concrete wins, and guiding them from first usage to durable, expanding adoption. You'll work closely with our engineers, product leaders, salespeople and directly with our CTO and co-founder. Own the long-term technical relationship. You'll be the technical voice in the room with each customer's SAP architects, development leads, and product owners. You'll align with their executives on long-term priorities and pair with their developers on the code itself. Debug real problems in real systems. You'll read code, read traces, form hypotheses, and resolve issues directly or route them precisely. This requires depth in both SAP and Nova. Translate customer reality into product. Every meaningful insight, friction point, and emergent use case should flow through you and shape what we build next. ## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - You bring deep SAP technical experience, whether from senior consulting, in-house development, or independent work. You read ABAP fluently and you're polyglot beyond it. - You have informed opinions on AI tooling and frontier models. You've used modern coding agents enough to know what they can and can't do today, and where they're heading. - You communicate clearly and directly with both technical and executive stakeholders. - You have a track record of public technical output — writing, talks, open-source contributions, community presence. (Strong plus, not required.) ## A NOTE ON SCOPE Most people in this role focus primarily on customer engagements and the product feedback loop. Some split time with core platform engineering. We welcome candidates interested in either path (see "Senior SAP Engineer" role for more details). ## BACKGROUND WE'D LIKE TO SEE - 5+ years of serious SAP technical work - Hands-on experience with S/4HANA migrations or Clean Core programs - Side projects, experiments, or contributions outside the SAP ecosystem, especially with AI or Agentic AI tooling - Time at an early-stage startup or small consulting firm where you owned customer outcomes end-to-end ## WHY JOIN You'll use Nova every day, becoming one of the most fluent users of frontier AI tooling for SAP. It's a rare vantage point: years ahead of the rest of the industry on AI for enterprise software, while shipping real value to customers. We're a small, highly talent-dense team building the infrastructure to make AI fluent in SAP. We offer competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and full health, dental, and vision coverage. If you read this and recognize the role you want, apply — even if you don't match every line. ## About Nova Intelligence ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Nova Intelligence provides an agentic AI platform for SAP teams to document, simplify, build, and test custom code, enabling faster S/4HANA transformation and a clean core. - **Entity Type**: Private (raised $40M; backed by SAP.iO, Accel, and Chemistry) - **Headquarters**: New York, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Emma Qian (CEO), Samuel Yang (CTO), Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier (Chief Scientist) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / SAP modernization - **Target customers**: Global 2000 companies running SAP (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose**: “Revolutionizing how the world’s largest companies operate – in SAP and beyond” by merging deep SAP expertise with cutting-edge AI. ## Products & Services - **Nova Platform (Agentic AI for SAP)**: An AI agent platform that accelerates SAP development, documentation, testing, and fit-to-standard analysis. Key capabilities: - **AI Coding & Debugging**: Generate and modernize ABAP Cloud and BTP CAP code, debug production issues, and perform unit testing. - **Fit-to-Standard Analysis**: Map custom code to SAP standard to reduce complexity and TCO. - **Documentation**: Automatically generate and maintain functional and technical documentation. - **Security Testing**: Zero-trust security model, automated security checks in CI/CD, dependency scanning, and penetration testing. - **Impact Analysis**: Understand how changes affect the entire SAP landscape. - **Clean Core Transformation**: Ensure upgrade-safe, standard-first customizations. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: $40M total funding (announced in 2025/2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel, Chemistry, SAP.iO (SAP’s venture arm) - **Growth Signals**: - 110% year-over-year headcount growth (now ~15 employees per LinkedIn) - Teams using Nova report 3x productivity boosts and 5x average gains across tasks - SOC 2 and GDPR compliant; zero-trust security infrastructure ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep SAP Expertise**: Co-founded by the co-inventor of SAP HANA (Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier) and a former Google DeepMind AI researcher (Emma Qian). - **Silicon Valley + SAP Heartland Blend**: Combines best practices from top VCs with decades of SAP domain knowledge. - **Security by Design**: Enterprise-grade encryption (TLS 1.3, AES-256), HSM-backed keys, role-based access, and audit logging. - **Platform Lock-In with Clean Core**: Agents natively enforce SAP’s Clean Core strategy, making upgrades safer and reducing long-term TCO. - **Speed as a Moat**: Claim to compress weeks of work into hours or days. ## Strategic Focus - **Accelerating S/4HANA transformation** and reducing custom code complexity for large enterprises. - **Expanding beyond SAP** into adjacent enterprise systems, as hinted by “in SAP and beyond.” - **Building a category-defining company** in the $100B+/year SAP ecosystem, with plans to scale engineering, sales, and customer engineering teams. ## Why Work Here - **Engineering Culture**: Flat, fast, AI-first – every engineer gets unlimited access to Codex/Claude Code. “Every line of code you ship powers systems that move billions of dollars.” - **Compensation**: Top-of-market cash, meaningful early-stage equity, quarterly performance bonuses. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid with offices in San Francisco and New York; global travel to meet customers and teammates (Zurich, Munich, Madrid, Mexico City). - **Perks**: Medical, dental, vision, commuter benefits, annual company offsites. - **Values**: “Debate fast, commit fully,” “customer obsessed,” “no task is beneath anyone,” and “speed is a moat.” - **Team Composition**: Small but mighty – work alongside ex-founders, top AI researchers, and SAP veterans. ## Sources 1. [novaintelligence.com](https://www.novaintelligence.com/) 2. [novaintelligence.com/about](https://www.novaintelligence.com/about) 3. [novaintelligence.com/careers](https://www.novaintelligence.com/careers) 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence) 5. [linkedin.com/company/novaintelligence](https://www.linkedin.com/company/novaintelligence) ## Other roles at Nova Intelligence - [Senior Infrastructure Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-infrastructure-engineer-nova-intelligence-new-york-07abex6ervx0) — New York, NY - [Partnership Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/partnership-lead-nova-intelligence-new-york-jy9bx4qvnhxf) — New York, NY - [General Application](https://feeny.ai/job/general-application-nova-intelligence-new-york-gmcyet7qjfcv) — New York, NY - [Enterprise Account Executive](https://feeny.ai/job/enterprise-account-executive-nova-intelligence-new-york-btsrvthk8qwt) — New York, NY - [Founding Recruiter](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-recruiter-nova-intelligence-new-york-ww4r1nech35e) — New York, NY - [Senior Security Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-security-engineer-nova-intelligence-new-york-rydtw72a8zd3) — New York, NY - [Senior SAP Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-sap-engineer-nova-intelligence-new-york-v3bfsh1cwq79) — New York, NY - [Senior Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-nova-intelligence-new-york-rpnd9246yzjk) — New York, NY