--- title: 'Senior SAP Engineer at Nova Intelligence' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-sap-engineer-nova-intelligence-new-york-v3bfsh1cwq79' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Senior SAP Engineer at Nova Intelligence - **Company:** Nova Intelligence - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-04-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence/cef5ff6e-fc29-40c6-8794-5db3461d2eb6 ## Job description Nova Intelligence is building the most powerful 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%3A%2F%2Fimage.mux.com%2FJi004bNMQjBGUJvK5R4Yet6VTE9yASS6qQVLBwuB9ETI%2Fthumbnail.jpg%3Ftime%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 SAP engineers to build the platform that powers Nova. You'll work across the foundational SAP infrastructure the agent runs on, the agent layer itself, and Nova's own ABAP code that runs inside customer SAP environments. Expect to spend time writing and debugging Nova's code in production SAP systems, untangling gnarly transport and installation issues at customers, and improving agent skills and prompts based on what you see. Think platform engineering, focused through the lens of SAP. This is a deeply technical role: it requires real SAP expertise, strong engineering instincts, and informed opinions about how to make AI agents reliable on enterprise systems. ## WHAT YOU'LL DO Build the foundational infrastructure. You'll work on the systems and primitives the agent uses every day — off-stack code editing via abapGit, search across customer systems, identity and authorization, sandboxes, GUI automation and the integrations that connect Nova to a customer's landscape. Improve the agent's SAP knowledge. You'll write skills, refine prompts, and tune how the agent reasons about SAP systems. The goal: make Nova perform like a senior SAP developer with deep context across modernization, debugging, business process redesign, and code review. Build the evaluation loop. You'll create repeatable test cases and benchmarks that catch regressions and let us measure improvement systematically. Every meaningful customer scenario should become a reproducible eval. Debug across the full stack. When something breaks, you'll reproduce the problem, isolate the cause (skill, prompt, ABAP code, infrastructure, or model), fix it and prevent the issue from occurring again. ## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - You bring deep SAP technical expertise: ABAP, S/4HANA internals, transport systems, BAdIs, enhancements — the actual mechanics of how SAP systems work. Familiarity with BTP, RAP, CAP, or Integration Suite is a strong plus. - You're a polyglot engineer. You've shipped meaningful code in Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar, and you reach for the right tool for each problem. - You have informed opinions on agent design and frontier models — what they do well today and what they'll do well in six months. - You have open-source contributions in or adjacent to the SAP ecosystem. (Strong plus, not required.) ## A NOTE ON SCOPE Most people in this role focus primarily on platform engineering. Some split time with direct customer engagement. We welcome candidates interested in either path (see "Customer Facing Engineer" role for more information). ## BACKGROUND WE'D LOVE TO SEE - 5+ years in deep SAP technical work - Production experience with S/4HANA, Clean Core, or large-scale ABAP modernization - Time at an early-stage startup, infrastructure company, or developer-tools company ## 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. 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