Embedded AI Architect for Enterprise Production

EPAM Systems Inc; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Forward-Deployed AI Architect to embed with client business owners and engineering leaders, driving AI-native solutions from pilot to production. You will design end-to-end architectures, manage trade-offs, and own artifacts proving value and safety.

The role emphasizes operating at the client table, with ownership, ambiguity tolerance, and a track record of delivering production-ready AI systems at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• Experience taking AI-native systems to production at a client or customer.
• Proven solution architect with consulting or client-facing background.
• Ability to frame problems for non-technologists and present options with costs and risks.
• Delivery of systems that shipped and ran.
• Depth in integration, distributed systems, cloud, and data-flow architecture.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and conflicting stakeholders.
• Willingness to be on-site with clients and travel.
• Hands-on coding ability to prototype.

Responsibilities

• Embed with a client account, working directly with business owners, product leaders, engineering teams, security, risk, and operations to take AI solutions from pilot to production
• Design end-to-end AI-native architectures: orchestration, retrieval, integration with systems of record, agent autonomy and guardrails, identity and authorization, evaluation, observability, and cost model
• Own three artifacts that make your impact measurable: a capability economics model, trust-rung evidence for every agent, and a knowledge-graph slice of the client domain
• Turn contradictory or incomplete requirements into explicit business decisions with named owners
• Decide, per component and per risk, how much can be delegated to AI and where a human must stay in the loop
• Define how each system is evaluated: how the client will know an assistant or agent fits the business scope
• Build proofs of concept and reference implementations when a decision needs evidence or a team needs an example of good
• Feed what you learn at the client back into EPAM's AI architecture practice: patterns and reference architectures

Skills

AI-native systems

Client-facing

Solutions architecture

Cloud architecture

Data-flow architecture

ADRs and design docs

Hands-on coding

Willing to travel

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Forward-Deployed AI Architect to embed with client business owners and engineering leaders, driving AI-native solutions from pilot to production. You will design end-to-end architectures, manage trade-offs, and own artifacts proving value and safety.

The role emphasizes operating at the client table, with ownership, ambiguity tolerance, and a track record of delivering production-ready AI systems at enterprise scale.