Lead AI Engineer: Scale LLM Apps & AI Systems

EPAM Systems; Colombia; On-site; COP 120,000,000 - 180,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning culture

Health coverage

Visual health budget

Life insurance

Medical leave coverage

Professional growth

Stock options

Additional income

Global community

Job summary

EPAM Systems in Colombia is seeking a Senior/Lead AI Engineer to design, build, and scale end-to-end AI applications, including chatbots and LLM-driven solutions, delivering production-grade systems with business impact.

You will work with clients, drive technical decisions, and lead initiatives across AI/ML, vector databases, and MLOps, ensuring security, performance, and cost-efficiency while staying current with emerging AI protocols.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in AI/ML engineering with production-grade delivery experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python/Java/Scala.
• Hands-on with LLM platforms and agentic frameworks.
• Experience with vector databases and retrieval systems.
• Knowledge of MLOps/AIOps, monitoring and security.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy AI/LLM applications at scale (RAG, agentic systems).
• Architect solutions using agentic frameworks and vector DBs.
• Build APIs, data pipelines, and enterprise integrations.
• Evaluate AI performance with LLM-based metrics and A/B testing.
• Ensure performance, security, observability, and cost-efficiency.
• Conduct rapid prototyping to validate feasibility and business value.
• Stay current with AI protocols (MCP, A2A, ACP).

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

LLM platforms

Agentic frameworks

Vector databases

MLOps/AIOps

Communication

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

LlamaIndex

Strands Agents

Qdrant

FAISS

Chroma

Pinecone

Weaviate

FastAPI

Flask

Spring Boot

ASP.NET

Azure OpenAI

Bedrock

Vertex AI

vLLM

Job description

EPAM Systems in Colombia is seeking a Senior/Lead AI Engineer to design, build, and scale end-to-end AI applications, including chatbots and LLM-driven solutions, delivering production-grade systems with business impact.

You will work with clients, drive technical decisions, and lead initiatives across AI/ML, vector databases, and MLOps, ensuring security, performance, and cost-efficiency while staying current with emerging AI protocols.