Forward Deployed Engineer/Chief Role

EPAM Systems Inc
  • Atlanta, GA
    19 days ago

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    Forward Deployed Engineer/Chief Role

    Remote in Georgia, & 4 others

    AI Solution Engineering

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    We are building AI-native solutions for our clients - products where LLM and its harness are the core of the value.

    This is a builders role: you and your team are responsible for building agentic systems, writing the production code, and standing up the evals and observability.

    You will work closely with SMEs and end-users to understand where the real value lies, and you design the feedback loops.

    Responsibilities

    • Design, build and ship AI-native systems E2E - agents, workflows, RAG and the harness: custom tool calling, sandboxing, context engineering and sub-agents, caching, compaction

    • Build the evaluation pipelines and use them to prove the system is genuinely useful

    • Design for failure in the agent loop: retries, model fallbacks, cost limits and human-in-the-loop on consequential actions

    • Capture domain expertise and repeatable workflows so what works on one engagement carries to the next

    • Engage early to help shape the use case and check technical feasibility

    • Write production-grade Python: integrations, APIs, data access, deployment

    • Work directly with SMEs and end-users through interviews, UAT and observing the real workflow, and validate that the system fits how people actually work

    Requirements

    • 7+ years of engineering experience, with a strong recent track record building production AI / LLM applications (not prototypes or research only)

    • Strong agent-design judgment - task-harness fit, matching the harness to the context, failures and policies of the actual task rather than calling a model in a loop

    • Capability to operate close to the client: lead discovery and feasibility conversations, work directly with SMEs and end-users, and explain technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences

    • Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel) and major LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini)

    • Expert-level Python and solid software engineering fundamentals

    • Strong RAG and retrieval skills: vector databases, embeddings, hybrid search, re-ranking, chunking and context management

    • Proven experience evaluating generative AI quality - LLM-based evaluation, heuristics, custom eval frameworks - and using observability/tracing tools (LangSmith, Arize Phoenix, Langfuse)

    • Production deployment experience on at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) with containerization, CI/CD

    • Sound judgment under ambiguity - scoping, sequencing and making the call on speed vs. quality vs. scope

    • English at C1 level

    Nice to have

    • Experience designing experiments, A/B testing and iterating on AI products against real user behavior and business metrics

    • Background in NLP, Data Science or applied ML, with experience moving models into production

    • Familiarity with MCP, A2A and Agent Skills, and emerging agent standards

    • Experience with enterprise AI platforms (AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Databricks Genie, Microsoft Foundry)

    • Exposure to AI governance, security and compliance (guardrails, prompt-injection prevention)

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationAtlanta, GA

    Skills

    • A/B Testingunmatched
    • Acceptance Testingunmatched
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Cachingunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
    • Continuous Integrationunmatched
    • Cost Modelingunmatched
    • Customer/Consumer Behaviorunmatched
    • Data Scienceunmatched
    • English Languageunmatched
    • Experiment Designunmatched
    • GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
    • Kernel Programmingunmatched
    • MCP - Microsoft Certified Professionalunmatched
    • Metricsunmatched
    • Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
    • Natural Language Processing (NLP)unmatched
    • Shallow Parsingunmatched
    • System Validationunmatched
    • Use Casesunmatched

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