Forward Deployed AI Engineer - Agentic Systems Lead

EPAM Systems is hiring a Forward Deployed AI Engineer - Agentic Systems Lead to deliver AI-native solutions within client environments. The role designs, builds, and operates production agentic systems while owning technical workstreams and collaborating with client stakeholders and delivery managers.

Responsibilities:

• Own technical outcomes end-to-end as the AI-Native Delivery Manager's direct counterpart, driving workstream completion beyond task execution
• Design, build, and operate agentic frameworks, tools, evaluations, and infrastructure that power production AI-native solutions
• Work embedded with client business and technical stakeholders, adapting agentic systems to real integration, data, and security constraints
• Partner with delivery managers on scope and SLA definition, providing technical grounding for realistic commitments and timelines
• Contribute engagement learnings to the delivery playbook, documenting staffing patterns, tooling choices, and integration insights for future teams
• Mentor less experienced engineers on the FDE pillar spectrum, helping them grow from build-focused roles to full delivery ownership

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with recent hands-on leadership of agentic or LLM-based systems in production environments
• Deep expertise in agent architecture and orchestration, including goal decomposition, multi-agent coordination, and autonomy-versus-handoff decision frameworks
• Proven experience grounding models in live data systems through retrieval, context construction, and maintaining accuracy against changing knowledge sources
• Ability to design guardrails, evaluations, and observability for agentic failure modes including hallucination, tool-call errors, and runaway loops
• Understanding of production trade-offs such as latency, cost per call, rate limits, versioning, and rollback under fixed-fee or managed-output SLAs
• Demonstrated ownership of technical workstream outcomes with accountability for results, including integration into client environments with security and legacy constraints
• Candidates with existing transferable H-1B status may be considered