Forward-Deployed AI Delivery - Agentic Systems Architect

EPAM Systems Inc; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Expert to own end-to-end delivery of AI-native solutions embedded within client environments. You will design agentic frameworks and operate them in production, collaborating with client stakeholders to ensure real integration with data and security constraints.

You will lead, mentor, and govern the delivery of complex AI systems, balancing latency, cost, and reliability while shaping future delivery playbooks and best practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with recent hands-on leadership of agentic or LLM-based systems in production
• Deep expertise in agent architecture and orchestration, including goal decomposition, multi-agent coordination, and autonomy-versus-handoff decision frameworks
• Grounding models in live data systems through retrieval, context construction, and maintaining accuracy against changing knowledge sources
• Ability to design guardrails, evaluations, and observability for agentic failure modes including hallucination, tool-call errors, and runaway loops
• Understanding of production trade-offs such as latency, cost per call, rate limits, versioning, and rollback under fixed-fee or managed-output SLAs
• Demonstrated ownership of technical workstream outcomes with accountability for results, including integration into client environments with security and legacy 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

Agentic systems

LLM leadership

Production grounding

Guardrails design

Observability

System integration

Security constraints

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Expert to own end-to-end delivery of AI-native solutions embedded within client environments. You will design agentic frameworks and operate them in production, collaborating with client stakeholders to ensure real integration with data and security constraints.

You will lead, mentor, and govern the delivery of complex AI systems, balancing latency, cost, and reliability while shaping future delivery playbooks and best practices.