Senior AI Engineer, Agentic and RAG Systems

EPAM Systems Inc

  • Atlanta, GA
  • 30+ days ago
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    Senior AI Engineer, Agentic and RAG Systems

    Remote in Georgia, & 4 others

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    We are seeking a hands-on Senior AI Engineer who designs, builds, and operates production GenAI systems - agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and LLM-backed services with real users and real SLAs. This is an engineering role, not a research role. The bar is reliability, latency, cost, observability, and safe deployment at scale, with end-to-end ownership from architecture through on-call. Typical workloads include enterprise knowledge platforms, conversational analytics, agentic automation, and LLM-augmented data products.

    Responsibilities

    • Design agent orchestration (graph/state, conditional routing, tool calling, memory, checkpointing) in LangGraph / LangChain or equivalent

    • Build production RAG end-to-end: chunking, embeddings, vector stores, hybrid retrieval, reranking, caching, and grounded synthesis

    • Own Python / FastAPI services - async, SSE streaming, session handling, and structured error contracts

    • Instrument with tracing and evaluation harnesses (MLflow, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent) for accuracy, cost, and regression

    • Ship on Docker + Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) via CI/CD with test, eval, and canary gates

    • Drive LLM cost engineering - model routing, prompt optimization, caching, token accounting, and build-vs-buy decisions

    • Apply GenAI safety & governance: hallucination control, prompt-injection defense, PII handling, and HITL where required

    • Partner with data engineering on semantic layers and pipelines (PySpark / SQL where applicable)

    Requirements

    • 5+ years in software engineering, with 2+ years shipping production LLM / agentic systems (not POCs or research)

    • Proficiency in Python and FastAPI (async, REST, SSE)

    • Production expertise in LangChain and LangGraph (or equivalent serious production experience with LlamaIndex, AutoGen, or MCP stacks)

    • Background in production RAG: embeddings, chunking, and hybrid retrieval with reranking and caching

    • Skills in vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, OpenSearch, or Databricks Vector Search

    • Knowledge of at least one major LLM provider in production - AWS Bedrock (preferred), OpenAI / Azure OpenAI, or Anthropic - with model selection and routing trade-offs

    • Competency in Kubernetes and Docker in real production environments (EKS/AKS/GKE)

    • Expertise in cloud engineering on AWS

    • Familiarity with observability and tracing tools (MLflow, LangSmith, OpenTelemetry), evaluation harnesses, and latency/cost ownership

    • Capability to build CI/CD for AI systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent) with test/eval gates

    • Strong written and spoken English (B2 level); able to own design discussions with engineering and business stakeholders independently

    Nice to have

    • Databricks depth - MLflow (tracking & serving), Vector Search, Unity Catalog / Metric Views, PySpark / SQL

    • Experience with LLM fine-tuning - PEFT, LoRA, QLoRA

    • Understanding of MCP servers and tool integration

    • Qualifications in GenAI governance & FinOps - auditability, prompt-injection hardening, PII, and token cost in regulated environments

    • Background in classical ML / DL - NLP, BERT-family, time-series, and CV

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    LocationAtlanta, GA

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