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.
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
Excellent command of written and spoken English (B2+ level)
Nice to have
Experience building a coding-agent harness from scratch
Background in developing custom tools or MCP integrations
Expertise in agent evaluations
Capability to coordinate multiple agents
We offer
CONTINUOUS UPSKILLING, LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
Diversity of tasks and projects
Assessment center for objective review of competency level
Personal development plan
Mentoring programs and leadership development
Certification and professional development support
Access to learning platforms including more than 2,500 internal courses
English courses taught by certified teachers
CORPORATE BENEFITS
Extra leave days
Referral bonuses
COMPENSATION PACKAGE
Competitive compensation paid in USD
Regular salary and performance reviews
MEDICAL & HEALTHCARE
Private health insurance
Well-being events
WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Recreation areas and kitchens
Tea, coffee and snacks
Sports equipment and game consoles
IT Equipment
Microsoft’s Software Assurance Home Use Program (HUP)
Please note that our Talent Attraction Team reviews applications and CVs submitted in English.
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.

Work arrangement
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