Senior/Lead/Chief AI Engineer

You still get a kick out of understanding a tricky system, tracking down a stubborn bug, or shipping something people actually use. AI has made you more ambitious about what you can build.
At EPAM, we’re looking for engineers who love the craft and know how to use AI to move faster. You’ll solve real client problems, make architectural decisions, and help your team find better ways to build software.
Experience the freedom of remote work from anywhere in Uzbekistan, whether it's the comfort of your home or our modern office in Tashkent.
Responsibilities
Take a goal and make it happen. Understand the problem, challenge assumptions, choose an approach, and follow through. The result might be a production feature, a validated architecture, or an AI workflow that makes the team more effective
Put coding agents to work. Use them to explore codebases, implement features, test, debug, and review changes. Decide what to delegate, where to intervene, and how to verify the result
Make agents more useful. Configure and extend their harnesses: context, skills, specialized agents, hooks, tools, execution environments, and feedback loops. Connect them to real repositories and engineering workflows
Help good ideas spread. Try things on real problems, measure what improves, and help teammates adopt approaches that work
Requirements
Engineering depth. You've shipped and maintained production software. You can write code, reason about architecture, debug unfamiliar systems, and explain your technical decisions
Daily experience with coding agents. You're fluent with tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or equivalents. You understand their capabilities, limitations, and failure modes
Hands-on harness experience. You've configured and adapted the systems around an agent, using building blocks such as skills, specialized agents, hooks, and tool integrations. You understand context, execution loops, state, failure recovery, and how to verify completion
A focus on outcomes. You turn an open-ended goal into practical steps, work through blockers, and bring others along. You take responsibility for the result, including code an agent wrote
Building a coding-agent harness from scratch is a big plus. So are custom tools or MCP integrations, agent evaluations, and experience coordinating multiple agents
We offer
We connect like-minded people:
Delivering innovative solutions to industry leaders, making a global impact
Enjoyable working environment, whether it is the vibrant office or the comfort of your own home
Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
Relocation opportunities within our offices in 55+ countries
Corporate and social events
We invest in your growth:
Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
Free English classes with certified teachers
Discounts in local language schools, including offline courses for the Uzbek language
We cover it all:
Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
Medical & family care package
Four trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
Discounts for fitness clubs, dance schools and sports programs
Benefits package (sports activities, a variety of stores and services)
EPAM is global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, we empower our clients to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.

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