Senior AI Engineer - Agentic AI
Role Overview
EPAM Systems is seeking a Senior AI Engineer specializing in Agentic AI.
The role is based in the UAE with work from either the Dubai or Abu Dhabi office in a hybrid working mode.
The engineer will build scalable agentic AI platforms for secure, efficient, production-grade enterprise solutions.
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Role Overview
EPAM Systems is seeking a Senior AI Engineer specializing in Agentic AI.
The role is based in the UAE with work from either the Dubai or Abu Dhabi office in a hybrid working mode.
The engineer will build scalable agentic AI platforms for secure, efficient, production-grade enterprise solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions from prototype to production.
- Implement multi-agent orchestration using frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, or OpenAI Agents SDK.
- Develop orchestration for planning, checkpointing, retries, fallback handling, and resumable long-running processes.
- Build and optimize RAG pipelines using chunking, embeddings, vector or hybrid search, retrieval evaluation, grounded responses, and citations.
- Develop memory and context-management solutions with short-term and long-term stores and compaction strategies.
- Write Python APIs and services with asynchronous execution, background jobs, and containerized deployments.
- Integrate enterprise systems through MCP, A2A, OpenAPI, REST, and gRPC with graceful degradation and retries.
- Apply security and governance practices including RBAC, prompt safety, traceability, and secrets management.
- Implement evaluation and observability frameworks using tools such as Langfuse, Arize, or OpenTelemetry.
- Contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, and engineering standards.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Production experience delivering Generative AI or Agentic AI systems.
- Expertise in Python engineering for APIs, microservices, testing, and CI/CD.
- Strong knowledge of LLM capabilities, prompt design, structured outputs, tool calling, and retrieval strategies.
- Hands-on experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel.
- Experience with RAG, embeddings, and vector database integrations.
- Familiarity with stateful or long-running systems, checkpointing, and resumable workflows.
- Cloud deployment experience, preferably Azure, with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Understanding of schema validation and MLOps tools such as JSON Schema, Pydantic, MLflow, or Airflow.
- Ability to explain cost, latency, and accuracy trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Azure AI Foundry or Microsoft Agent Framework.
- Knowledge of MCP and A2A protocols for agent and tool interoperability.
- Hands-on experience with Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, or pgvector.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, workflow engines, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with open-source or small language models, AI safety, governance, or foundation-model adaptation.
Benefits
- End-of-service gratuity, private healthcare, life insurance, and an employee assistance program.
- Wellness program, annual air travel allowance for expatriates, and global travel medical and accident insurance.
- Referral bonuses and learning opportunities including training, coaching, professional certifications, and courses.
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