Enterprise AI Architect: Systems, Guardrails, & Strategy

EPAM Systems Inc; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks an AI Architect to design target architectures for AI-native applications and enterprise AI solutions across industries, from assistants and RAG systems to agents and autonomous components. You will decide what the system should do and what it should not, define evaluations, guardrails, and constraints that shape what gets built.

You will frame problems, resolve conflicting requirements, and ensure stakeholders own decisions by turning requirements into explicit business

Qualifications

• Architected AI-native systems in production with real users and business processes.
• Held architect-level responsibility for the system around the model.
• Built with AI initiatives and demonstrated production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Design end‑to‑end architectures for AI‑native solutions: orchestration, retrieval, tool and system integration, agent autonomy and guardrails, identity and authorization, evaluation, observability, and cost model
• Fit each solution exactly to the business scope AI no more, no less
• AI and be able to explain what you deliberately left out and why
• Turn incoherent or contradictory requirements into explicit business decisions: surface them, reframe them in business terms, price the options, and get a named owner to decide
• Make and document architectural trade‑offs (build vs. buy, model selection, retrieval strategy, autonomy level, cost vs. quality)
• Define the evaluation strategy for each system: how we will know that an assistant or agent fits the business scope, not just that it produces fluent output
• Author the constraints, guidelines, and architectural fitness functions that engineering teams and coding agents build within
• Decide where humans must stay in the loop AI regulated decisions, data of record, security boundaries
• Work within EPAM delivery teams and in presales: shape proposals, present options and costs to client executives, and review designs across teams
• Build proofs of concept and reference implementations when, and only when, a decision needs evidence or a team needs an example of "good"
• Contribute to EPAM's AI architecture practice: reference architectures, reusable patterns, and mentoring architects

Skills

AI architecture

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder communication

Prototyping

Tools

OAuth 2.1

SPIFFE

DPoP

Agent frameworks

LLM observability

Job description

EPAM Systems seeks an AI Architect to design target architectures for AI-native applications and enterprise AI solutions across industries, from assistants and RAG systems to agents and autonomous components. You will decide what the system should do and what it should not, define evaluations, guardrails, and constraints that shape what gets built.

You will frame problems, resolve conflicting requirements, and ensure stakeholders own decisions by turning requirements into explicit business