Senior AI-Native Engineer: Production LLM Systems & Agents

EPAM Systems; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. seeks a Senior AI-Native Engineer to design and productionize AI-native systems used by engineers and customers. The role emphasizes spec-first, tests-first development and coding agents under review within an AI-native workflow.

You will lead multi-stage LLM pipelines, set output schemas, and establish validation, retries, and failure recovery, while measuring performance and costs in production.

Qualifications

• Experience running AI workflows or systems in production or CI without daily attention.
• Multi-step LLM/agent design with tool restriction & validation.
• Experience building evaluation methods and cost awareness.
• Strong communication to allow others to reproduce work.

Responsibilities

• Design and run production LLM systems with pipelines and agents.
• Build evaluation including golden datasets and telemetry.
• Decide autonomous vs assisted vs human-approval work.
• Deliver spec-first and test-first with coding agents.
• Put AI steps into CI/CD and tune for false positives.
• Estimate cost before and measure after using cost levers.
• Publish reusable prompts, tool schemas, and eval sets.
• Help new teammates adopt AI workflow.

Skills

Production ownership

LLM/agent design

Cost awareness

Clear communication

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

EPAM Systems Inc. seeks a Senior AI-Native Engineer to design and productionize AI-native systems used by engineers and customers. The role emphasizes spec-first, tests-first development and coding agents under review within an AI-native workflow.

You will lead multi-stage LLM pipelines, set output schemas, and establish validation, retries, and failure recovery, while measuring performance and costs in production.