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Senior AI Agent Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Substantial production software engineering experience, typically five or more years, including at least one year delivering LLM-based agents to production
  • Strong programming skills and production experience in at least one general-purpose language, together with hands-on agent development using SDKs, frameworks, or direct model APIs
  • Depth in at least one technical area and the ability to evaluate language, runtime, and framework trade-offs against the system's requirements
  • Experience designing systems or substantial components, evaluating alternatives, and independently making technical decisions within an agreed scope

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and operate agent systems across execution, memory, identity, tool integration, and observability
  • Work directly with customers and stakeholders to turn needs into functional requirements and measurable acceptance criteria
  • Personally build working prototypes and production-grade slices of the solution, from design through implementation, testing, and deployment
  • Develop agent workflows and production deployments using cloud managed services for AI hosting

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Teamwork

About the company

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EPAM Systems

  • IT Services & Consulting
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has used its software engineering expertise to become a leading global provider of digital engineering, cloud and AI-enabled transformation services, and a leading business and experience consulting partner for global enterprises and ambitious startups. We address our clients’ transformation challenges by fusing EPAM Continuum’s integrated strategy, experience and technology consulting with our 30+ years of engineering execution to speed our clients’ time to market and drive greater value from their innovations and digital investments. We make GenAI real with our AI LLM orchestration, testing and engineering solutions, EPAM DIAL, EPAM EliteA™ and EPAM AI/RUN™, respectively. We deliver globally, but engage locally with our expert teams of consultants, architects, designers and engineers, making the future real for our clients, our partners and our people around the world. We believe the right solutions are the ones that improve people’s lives and fuel competitive advantage for our clients across diverse industries. Our thinking comes to life in the experiences, products and platforms we design and bring to market. Added to the S&P 500 and the Forbes Global 2000 in 2021 and recognized by Glassdoor and Newsweek as a Top 100 Best Workplace, our multidisciplinary teams serve customers across six continents. We are proud to be among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services in the Fortune 1000 and to be recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScapes for Worldwide Experience Build Services, Worldwide Experience Design Services and Worldwide Software Engineering Services. Learn more at www.epam.com.

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Job description

Design and deliver AI agent systems that remain reliable beyond a successful demonstration. In this role, you will own technical decisions and delivery for a defined system or substantial component, from requirements and design through production operation. You will combine strong software engineering with practical agent development, make trade-offs explicit, and help other engineers deliver high-quality work. We welcome engineers from different programming backgrounds. We value depth in your existing language and the ability to learn the languages and tools needed for the role. Responsibilities Design, build, deploy, and operate agent systems across execution, memory, identity, tool integration, and observability within your area of responsibility Work directly with customers and stakeholders to turn needs into functional requirements and measurable acceptance criteria. Personally build working prototypes and production-grade slices of the solution, from design through implementation, testing, and deployment Develop agent workflows and production deployments using cloud managed services for AI hosting (e.g., Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI), selecting services and development tools against the system's requirements Implement and operate an LLM gateway & routing layer covering model tiering, quota/cost control, and observability (e.g., LiteLLM, APIM AI Gateway) Design memory and context-management approaches for multi-step workflows, including state persistence, retrieval quality, retention, and isolation between users or engagements Build and maintain MCP servers and tool integrations for authorized security workflows, including reconnaissance, scanners, controlled exploit tooling, and internal services. Define contracts, permissions, approval boundaries, and recovery behavior Establish automated tests and agent evaluations for your components. Distinguish model-quality issues from software defects, and cover tool failures, interrupted execution, and unintended repeated actions Diagnose production issues using logs, metrics, and traces. Improve reliability, latency, and cost, and verify that mitigation and recovery work as intended Contribute to CI/CD, release checks, rollback plans, code review, and technical documentation. Mentor less experienced engineers and communicate decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders Requirements Substantial production software engineering experience, typically five or more years, including at least one year delivering LLM-based agents to production. You can explain your contribution, the trade-offs you made, and the operational results Strong programming skills and production experience in at least one general-purpose language, together with hands-on agent development using SDKs, frameworks, or direct model APIs. You can independently learn an unfamiliar language or runtime and validate your implementation through tests and diagnostics Depth in at least one technical area and the ability to evaluate language, runtime, and framework trade-offs against the system's requirements, including concurrency, performance, maintainability, and integration needs Experience designing systems or substantial components, evaluating alternatives, and independently making technical decisions within an agreed scope Practical experience with MCP, tool use, prompt and context engineering, memory, and agent evaluation, including testing behavior across multiple steps and failure conditions Practical experience with cloud managed services for AI hosting (e.g., Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI), including runtime, state, identity, integration, and observability concerns, and the ability to adopt an unfamiliar platform through working implementations Production engineering skills in API design, asynchronous processing, persistence, authentication and authorization, observability, retries, and security boundaries. You can investigate issues that span multiple components Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, code review, and AI-assisted development, together with a disciplined approach to validating generated output. You can clarify requirements, communicate designs, and support the growth of other engineers Proficiency in English at a B2+ level Nice to have Experience in application security, web penetration testing, or red-teaming within an authorized scope Experience with sandboxed code execution, browser agents, or autonomous tool orchestration Experience improving evaluation coverage, deployment safety, or operating costs for agent systems Experience conducting technical interviews or contributing to engineering standards and knowledge sharing

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