Lead AI Engineer

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to help design and deliver next-generation AI-powered financial assistance experiences for an AI-powered financial assistant platform. This remote role focuses on building workflows and custom chat and reporting interfaces, partnering with institutional clients to integrate, evaluate, and deploy AI capabilities with strong quality, security, reliability, and privacy practices.

In this position, you will lead end-to-end technical execution, turning high-level problem statements into production-ready designs and implementations while continuously improving AI performance, safety, and monitoring. You will also work with AI-assisted development tools and coding agents, paired with rigorous review, testing, and validation.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build next-generation AI-powered financial assistance workflows and bespoke chat/reporting interfaces
• Own system design from high-level problem definitions through low-level requirements, edge-case anticipation, and independent production implementation
• Integrate and optimize AI applications across quality, latency, reliability, and cost
• Maintain high standards for software quality, reliability, security, maintainability, and data privacy
• Use AI-assisted programming methods and coding agents while critically reviewing, testing, and validating AI-generated code
• Perform AI evaluation and quality engineering, including automated evaluations, test datasets, regression testing, failure analysis, and production monitoring
• Address AI security and production controls such as access control, prompt-injection risks, guardrails, and auditability
• Rapidly learn and adopt new technologies as the AI ecosystem evolves

Requirements

• 7+ years of overall software engineering experience, with a proven track record of senior or lead autonomy
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or React (TypeScript)
• If Python is not your primary background, readiness to learn and master it quickly is required
• Experience with FastAPI (strongly desired), AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform
• Frontend development experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Next.js, or Node
• Proficiency with AI-assisted software development tools and coding agents
• Experience with AI evaluation, automated testing, regression testing, failure analysis, and production monitoring
• Strong understanding of AI security, data privacy, guardrails, and safe handling of sensitive information
• Ability to optimize applications for quality, latency, reliability, and cost
• High autonomy, strong product judgment, and a low-formality, startup-ready attitude

Technologies

• Python
• React
• TypeScript
• FastAPI
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Next.js
• Node
• JavaScript

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)
• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off: employee eligible to accrue 15-25 paid days depending on level and tenure with EPAM (accrual eligibility may change over time)
• Paid Holidays: nine (9) total per year
• Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection
• Accident Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program
• If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program

Location: Remote (remote). Compensation: USD 150,000 - 200,000 per yearly.