Agentic AI Delivery Lead (Forward-Deployed)

EPAM Systems; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking an AI-Native Delivery Manager to own end-to-end delivery of production AI-native solutions embedded in client environments. You will design agentic frameworks, operate tooling and evaluations, and drive delivery with stakeholders across business and tech teams.

You will mentor engineers, define realistic timelines, and ensure security and data constraints are addressed while delivering scalable outcomes for clients.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with leadership of agentic/LLM-based systems in production.
• Expertise in agent architecture, orchestration, goal decomposition, multi-agent coordination.
• Grounding models in live data via retrieval and context construction.
• Design guardrails, evaluations, and observability for agentic failures.
• Understand production trade-offs: latency, cost per call, rate limits, versioning, SLAs.
• Ownership of technical workstreams with client-environment integration and security constraints.

Responsibilities

• Own technical outcomes end-to-end as the AI-Native Delivery Manager's direct counterpart, driving workstream completion beyond task execution
• Design, build, and operate agentic frameworks, tools, evaluations, and infrastructure that power production AI-native solutions
• Work embedded with client business and technical stakeholders, adapting agentic systems to real integration, data, and security constraints
• Partner with delivery managers on scope and SLA definition, providing technical grounding for realistic commitments and timelines
• Contribute engagement learnings to the delivery playbook, documenting staffing patterns, tooling choices, and integration insights for future teams
• Mentor less experienced engineers on the FDE pillar spectrum, helping them grow from build-focused roles to full delivery ownership

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Agentic/LLM systems

Agent architecture & orchestration

Grounding models in live data

Guardrails, evaluations, observability

Production trade-offs (latency, cost)

Delivery ownership & accountability

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking an AI-Native Delivery Manager to own end-to-end delivery of production AI-native solutions embedded in client environments. You will design agentic frameworks, operate tooling and evaluations, and drive delivery with stakeholders across business and tech teams.

You will mentor engineers, define realistic timelines, and ensure security and data constraints are addressed while delivering scalable outcomes for clients.