Remote Python AI Platform Engineer

EPAM Systems Inc; Newtown (PA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

401(k) Matching

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. is hiring a Python AI Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure behind an enterprise knowledge platform. You will develop backend services using Python, FastAPI, and modern retrieval pipelines to support a hybrid, agent-enabled knowledge surface.

The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and cost-conscious design, with overlaps across ingestion, model serving, and tool sandboxing. Remote work with US-wide scope and a strong engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Python in platform or infra-heavy environments.
• Experience building CLI tools in Python, Go, or Rust.
• Hands-on with LangGraph, LangChain, pgvector, and modern retrieval pipelines.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for LLM-backed systems.
• Familiar with Docker, Helm, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes workflows.
• Understanding embedding pipelines, vector search, and LLM-backed systems.
• Ability to monitor metrics, tracing, dashboards, and logs.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement robust backend services using Python stack.
• Design trade-offs around retrieval quality, latency, and cost.
• Build production-grade agent runtime capabilities, with sandboxing and budgets.
• Improve grounding, failure analysis, and citation enforcement.
• Create observability and feedback loops with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Docker/Helm, GitHub Actions.
• Ingestion infrastructure across current and future content sources.
• Support multiple conversational surfaces through a unified platform.

Skills

Python development

CLI tools

LangGraph

LangChain

pgvector

Retrieval pipelines

Docker & Kubernetes

Tools

FastAPI

Pydantic

SQLAlchemy async

asyncpg

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. is hiring a Python AI Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure behind an enterprise knowledge platform. You will develop backend services using Python, FastAPI, and modern retrieval pipelines to support a hybrid, agent-enabled knowledge surface.

The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and cost-conscious design, with overlaps across ingestion, model serving, and tool sandboxing. Remote work with US-wide scope and a strong engineering culture.