AI Platform Engineering Lead - Python & FastAPI

EPAM Systems Inc; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking an AI Platform Software Engineering Manager to build a next-generation AI-powered financial assistant platform and to lead a hands-on senior engineer in end-to-end production systems development.

You will design and implement end-to-end AI systems, build FastAPI-powered services, and push towards reliable, secure, and scalable deployment with strong collaboration across business users.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with Python.
• Strong FastAPI experience building production APIs.
• Experience leading technical direction with business users.
• Ability to design architecture from high-level problem statements.
• Experience with AI evaluation, automated tests, and regression suites.
• Knowledge of data privacy and prompt-injection defenses.
• Excellent English communication.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end AI-powered assistant systems from loosely defined goals.
• Build Python services and APIs using FastAPI for production workloads.
• Deliver production implementations balancing quality, latency, and cost.
• Define evaluation approaches for AI features with tests and datasets.
• Implement monitoring and failure analysis workflows for AI in production.
• Apply security controls for guardrails and data handling.
• Collaborate with business users to gather requirements and refine solutions.
• Review AI-generated code to ensure correctness and safety.
• Drive technical decisions in a low-formality environment and maintain delivery momentum.
• Maintain reliability and maintainability across the codebase.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

System design

AI evaluation

AI security

Leadership

English fluency

Autonomy

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

ReactJS

Anthropic Claude

Job description

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking an AI Platform Software Engineering Manager to build a next-generation AI-powered financial assistant platform and to lead a hands-on senior engineer in end-to-end production systems development.

You will design and implement end-to-end AI systems, build FastAPI-powered services, and push towards reliable, secure, and scalable deployment with strong collaboration across business users.