Senior AI Engineer – Agentic AI & LLM Systems

EPAM Systems; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 145,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

LinkedIn Learning access

401(k) Matching

Paid Time Off

Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protec

Employee Discounts

Pet Insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job summary

EPAM Systems in Chicago is seeking an experienced Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML to design, build, and deploy production-grade Agentic AI solutions for insurance workflows. You will own end-to-end product lifecycles, leverage LLMs, RAG, and document processing, and collaborate with brokers, underwriters, and operations to translate challenges into scalable AI solutions.

You will mentor engineers, champion best practices, and continuously explore emerging AI technologies to advance the

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in Software Engineering, AI/ML or related domains with a CS/Engineering degree
• Strong Python proficiency with end-to-end AI product delivery to production
• Experience with LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, information extraction, document understanding, and agentic AI workflows
• Cloud platforms, containerization, Docker, CI/CD, monitoring, and secure data handling in production
• API design, system design, full-stack development; knowledge of TypeScript/Angular or .NET/C#

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade Agentic AI solutions for insurance workflows
• Build AI-powered apps using LLMs, RAG, document processing, and classification at scale
• Own end-to-end AI product lifecycle from ideation to deployment and monitoring
• Develop evaluation frameworks for testing, monitoring, performance, and hallucination detection
• Collaborate with brokers, underwriters, and operations to identify AI opportunities
• Mentor engineers and advance AI development practices

Skills

Python

AI/ML

LLMs

RAG

Information extraction

Document understanding

Classification models

API design

System design

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Docker

TypeScript/Angular

.NET/C#

Job description

EPAM Systems in Chicago is seeking an experienced Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML to design, build, and deploy production-grade Agentic AI solutions for insurance workflows. You will own end-to-end product lifecycles, leverage LLMs, RAG, and document processing, and collaborate with brokers, underwriters, and operations to translate challenges into scalable AI solutions.

You will mentor engineers, champion best practices, and continuously explore emerging AI technologies to advance the