Senior AI Agent Engineer

Location: Remote or hybrid; remote work is available from anywhere in Belarus. Listed locations: Grodno and Minsk.

Company

EPAM Systems delivers software engineering and AI solutions for customers and stakeholders.

What you will do

• Design, build, deploy, and operate AI agent systems covering execution, memory, identity, tool integration, and observability.
• Convert customer and stakeholder needs into functional requirements and measurable acceptance criteria; build prototypes and production-grade components.
• Develop agent workflows and production deployments with managed AI hosting services such as Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, and Vertex AI.
• Implement and operate LLM gateway and routing layers for model tiering, quota and cost control, and observability.
• Design memory and context management for multi-step workflows and build MCP servers and authorized security tool integrations.
• Establish testing and agent evaluations, diagnose production issues, improve reliability, latency, and cost, and contribute to CI/CD, releases, documentation, and mentoring.

Requirements

• At least five years of substantial production software engineering experience, including at least one year delivering LLM-based agents to production.
• Strong production programming experience in at least one general-purpose language and hands-on agent development with SDKs, frameworks, or direct model APIs.
• Depth in at least one technical area and the ability to assess language, runtime, and framework trade-offs involving concurrency, performance, maintainability, and integrations.
• Experience designing systems or substantial components, evaluating alternatives, and making technical decisions independently within an agreed scope.
• Practical experience with MCP, tool use, prompt and context engineering, memory, and agent evaluation across multi-step and failure scenarios.
• Experience with managed AI hosting services, including runtime, state, identity, integration, and observability concerns.
• Production engineering skills in API design, asynchronous processing, persistence, authentication and authorization, observability, retries, and security boundaries.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, code review, and AI-assisted development, with disciplined validation of generated output.
• Ability to clarify requirements, communicate designs, support other engineers, and learn unfamiliar languages, runtimes, and platforms.
• English proficiency at B2+ level.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote or hybrid work format, with remote work available from anywhere in Belarus.
• Work directly with customers, stakeholders, technical teams, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Opportunity to make technical decisions, mentor less experienced engineers, and contribute to high-quality delivery.