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Lead AI & Deep Learning Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience in traditional machine learning/deep learning
  • Experience building stateful, event-driven microservices and agentic frameworks
  • Hands-on experience with search and vector database infrastructure
  • High proficiency in Python & FastAPI backend development

Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy advanced agentic AI frameworks for autonomous workflows
  • Build and fine-tune traditional ML and deep learning models
  • Architect and optimize high-performance search and retrieval systems
  • Maintain comprehensive evaluation and observability dashboards

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Collaboration
  • Problem Solving
  • Communication

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

We are seeking a Lead AI & Deep Learning Engineer to connect classic ML/deep learning with agentic AI patterns for real-time live-stream workflows. You will deliver production-ready agentic systems for content scanning, tagging, audio/visual classification, and contextual ad insertion, while designing event-driven microservices over WebSockets with vector search/OpenSearch and Weights & Biases evaluation. Responsibilities Design and deploy advanced agentic AI frameworks, including context management, MCP over WebSockets, and event-driven architectures for autonomous enterprise workflows Build and fine-tune traditional ML and deep learning models for classification, OCR (Optical Character Recognition), and audio spectrogram analysis Architect and optimize high-performance search and retrieval systems using OpenSearch / Elasticsearch and vector databases Implement rigorous evaluation pipelines in Weights & Biases (or equivalent ML/LLMOps tools) to validate new model versions against evals before production switching Collaborate in a fast-paced, experimental Kanban setup with daily discussions, technical reviews, and rapid prototyping Deliver robust autonomous agentic workflows over WebSockets that handle content scanning and live streaming tagging without hallucinations Integrate high-accuracy classification, OCR, and audio processing models into production MURAL and MURAL LIVE pipelines Maintain comprehensive evaluation and observability dashboards in Weights & Biases governing model updates and agentic tool calls Requirements Proven track record with 5+ years of software engineering experience spanning traditional machine learning/deep learning (classification, OCR, computer vision/audio) and modern agentic AI workflows Demonstrated experience building stateful, event-driven microservices and agentic frameworks (MCP, WebSockets, tool-call orchestration) Hands-on experience with search and vector database infrastructure (OpenSearch / Elasticsearch) Strong experience with model evaluation, tracking, and experimentation tools (Weights & Biases) High proficiency in Python & FastAPI backend development Deep understanding of agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom agents English proficiency at B2 level or higher Nice to have Experience with fine-tuning, distillation, and quantization of open-source models Domain background in media & entertainment (broadcast video supply chain, Peacock / live streaming architecture) Familiarity with Go / gRPC microservices Knowledge of Terraform & AWS Cloud infrastructure

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