Lead AI-Driven DevEx Architect

EPAM Systems; Mexico; On-site; PHP 5,545,286 - 9,242,143; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems is looking for a Lead AI Solution Engineer to boost productivity across Front-End and Back-End teams. You will analyze workflows and systematically integrate AI into development processes, tooling and pipelines to reduce friction and accelerate time-to-market.

Responsibilities include evaluating AI-assistant tools, automating lifecycle tasks and collaborating with DevOps to embed AI-driven analysis into CI/CD. Strong coaching and English skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Full-Stack Software Engineer, Technical Lead or DevEx Engineer.
• Familiarity with React, TypeScript, Next.js, APIs, databases and microservices.
• Experience with IDEs (VS Code, JetBrains) and Git/CI/CD.
• Strong interpersonal and coaching skills to guide engineering culture through change.
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher.
• Nice to have: LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Ollama.
• Experience in fine-tuning and RAG setups.
• Experience in engineering custom AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Research, evaluate and deploy state-of-the-art AI-assistant tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, specialized code LLMs and internal AI utilities to both front-end and back-end developers
• Design and automate software lifecycle processes using AI, including automated unit test generation, documentation generation, schema translations, pull-request summaries and code-review assistance
• Collaborate with DevOps to integrate AI-driven analysis and automated bug detection and linting tools directly into CI/CD pipelines to catch vulnerabilities and structural flaws early
• Act as an internal consultant and evangelist to host workshops, create prompt-engineering guidelines for software developers and establish best practices for safe, ethical and effective AI usage
• Track, measure and report on developer velocity and efficiency gains resulting from AI initiatives, including changes in lead time, coding speed and team sentiment
• Guide engineering culture through change by introducing disruptive technologies and coaching teams on adoption

Skills

Full-Stack development

AI/ML tooling

React

TypeScript

Next.js

CI/CD

Git workflows

Coaching

Tools

Git

VS Code

JetBrains IDEs

CI/CD tools

Job description

EPAM Systems is looking for a Lead AI Solution Engineer to boost productivity across Front-End and Back-End teams. You will analyze workflows and systematically integrate AI into development processes, tooling and pipelines to reduce friction and accelerate time-to-market.

Responsibilities include evaluating AI-assistant tools, automating lifecycle tasks and collaborating with DevOps to embed AI-driven analysis into CI/CD. Strong coaching and English skills are essential.