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Chief Forward Deployed Engineer

Job in Town of Poland, Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, 14701, USA
Listing for: EPAM Systems
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-14
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Machine Learning/ ML Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 180000 - 320000 USD Yearly USD 180000.00 320000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Town of Poland

We are looking for a Chief Forward Deployed Engineer to build AI-native solutions where LLM and its harness are the core of the value. This is a builder's role: you and your team are responsible for building agentic systems, writing the production code, and standing up the evals and observability. You will work closely with SMEs and end-users to understand where the real value lies, and you will design the feedback loops.

Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and ship AI-native systems E2E — agents, workflows, RAG, and the harness: custom tool calling, sandboxing, context engineering and sub-agents, caching, compaction
  • Build the evaluation pipelines and use them to prove the system is genuinely useful
  • Design for failure in the agent loop: retries, model fallbacks, cost limits, and human-in-the-loop on consequential actions
  • Capture domain expertise and repeatable workflows — so what works on one engagement carries to the next
  • Engage early, to help shape the use case and check technical feasibility
  • Work directly with SMEs and end-users — interviews, UAT, observing the real workflow — and validate that the system fits how people actually work
Requirements
  • 7+ years of engineering experience, with a strong recent track record building production AI / LLM applications (not prototypes or research only)
  • Strong agent-design judgment — task-harness fit, matching the harness to the context, failures, and policies of the actual task rather than calling a model in a loop
  • The ability to operate close to the client: lead discovery and feasibility conversations, work directly with SMEs and end-users, and explain technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks (Lang Chain, Lang Graph, Semantic Kernel, or similar) and major LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini)
  • Expert-level Python and solid software engineering fundamentals
  • Strong RAG and retrieval skills: vector databases, embeddings, hybrid search, re-ranking, chunking, and context management
  • Proven experience evaluating generative AI quality — LLM-based evaluation, heuristics, custom eval frameworks — and using observability/tracing tools (Lang Smith, Arize Phoenix, Langfuse, or similar)
  • Production deployment experience on at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with containerization, CI/CD
  • Sound judgment under ambiguity — scoping, sequencing, and making the call on speed vs. quality vs. scope
  • English at C1 level
Nice to have
  • Experience designing experiments, A/B testing, and iterating on AI products against real user behavior and business metrics
  • Background in NLP, Data Science, or applied ML, with experience moving models into production
  • Familiarity with MCP, A2A, Agent Skills, and emerging agent standards
  • Experience with enterprise AI platforms (AWS Bedrock Agent Core, Databricks Genie, Microsoft Foundry, Gemini Enterprise)
  • Exposure to AI governance, security, and compliance (guardrails, prompt-injection prevention)
    Prior client-facing or pre-sales exposure in a consulting or services context
We offer
  • We gather like-minded people:
    • Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud and digital platform modernization
    • Supportive team and agile, startup-like culture
    • Hybrid by design mode and opportunity to work remotely within Poland
    • Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually
    • Business-driven relocation opportunities
  • Thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programs
  • We cover it all:
    • Stable pay
    • Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
    • Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
    • Referral bonuses up to $2,000
    • Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks, coffee and more
    • Corporate, social and well-being events
  • Please, note:
    • Benefits listed above are available to employees only
    • We are open for working with Contractors. Terms of B2B cooperation agreements are agreed individually
    • We will reach out to selected candidates exclusively
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