AI-First Forward-Deployed Engineer — Hybrid, Lucerne

EPAM Systems, Inc.; Luzern; Hybrid; CHF 130.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

5 weeks of vacation

ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)

Enhanced parental leave

Extended pension plan

Training and certifications

Zusammenfassung

EPAM Systems, Inc. in Luzern, Switzerland, seeks a Senior AI-Native Forward Deployed Engineer to join our hybrid team.

You will partner with clients and engineering teams to design AI-first solutions, orchestrate agents, and deliver AI-enabled software in a forward-deployed model. The role blends product mindset, architecture and hands-on delivery, requiring strong communication across business and technical stakeholders, fluency in German and English, and experience with LLMs, cloud platforms,

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering and system design.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering or AI tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot).
• Strong background with cloud platforms, modern APIs and DevOps practices.
• Product-oriented mindset and experience in customer-facing engagements.
• Ability to operate across business, architecture and technical layers.
• Proven experience building AI agents or multi-agent systems.
• Familiarity with AI governance, evaluation and safety frameworks.
• Experience in client-facing or forward-deployed roles.
• Strong written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Professional fluency in German and English.
• Certifications in AI, Machine Learning or major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) - nice to have.

Aufgaben

• Own business problems from discovery through delivery, converting requirements into AI-driven specifications, workflows and architectures.
• Design and implement AI-first and agent-based solutions to enable development driven by prompts, context and orchestration.
• Serve as a bridge between business, product and engineering teams to promote AI-native practices across the lifecycle.
• Build, optimize and manage prompts, context pipelines and instruction sets, including versioning and evaluation processes.
• Orchestrate AI agents across SDLC workflows and integrate capabilities into IDEs, CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments.
• Develop reusable patterns and frameworks for AI-enabled delivery.
• Ensure quality, reliability, safety and cost-efficiency of AI-generated outputs with defined validation criteria, reviews and rework cycles.
• Deliver solutions in an embedded forward-deployed model, working closely with clients on-site or virtually.
• Coach client teams through AI-driven transformations and mentor engineers to adopt modern AI-first delivery practices.

Kenntnisse

LLMs

Prompt engineering

DevOps

Cloud platforms

Client-facing

Multi-agent systems

Tools

Claude

GitHub Copilot

Jobbeschreibung

EPAM Systems, Inc. in Luzern, Switzerland, seeks a Senior AI-Native Forward Deployed Engineer to join our hybrid team.

You will partner with clients and engineering teams to design AI-first solutions, orchestrate agents, and deliver AI-enabled software in a forward-deployed model. The role blends product mindset, architecture and hands-on delivery, requiring strong communication across business and technical stakeholders, fluency in German and English, and experience with LLMs, cloud platforms,