Step into a high-impact role where you'll own end-to-end delivery of AI-native solutions embedded directly within client environments.

As a
**Forward Deployed Expert** , you'll design and operate agentic frameworks that solve real business problems, not just build prototypes.

Join EPAM to engineer solutions that matter.

From AI to cloud transformation, you'll collaborate with top-tier innovators, gain autonomy to explore your ideas, and grow your skills in a culture built for tech excellence.

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**Responsibilities**
Own technical outcomes end-to-end as the AI-Native Delivery Manager's direct counterpart, driving workstream completion beyond task execution
Design, build, and operate agentic frameworks, tools, evaluations, and infrastructure that power production AI-native solutions
Work embedded with client business and technical stakeholders, adapting agentic systems to real integration, data, and security constraints
Partner with delivery managers on scope and SLA definition, providing technical grounding for realistic commitments and timelines
Contribute engagement learnings to the delivery playbook, documenting staffing patterns, tooling choices, and integration insights for future teams
Mentor less experienced engineers on the FDE pillar spectrum, helping them grow from build-focused roles to full delivery ownership
**Requirements**
8+ years of software engineering experience with recent hands-on leadership of agentic or LLM-based systems in production environments
Deep expertise in agent architecture and orchestration, including goal decomposition, multi-agent coordination, and autonomy-versus-handoff decision frameworks




Proven experience grounding models in live data systems through retrieval, context construction, and maintaining accuracy against changing knowledge sources
Ability to design guardrails, evaluations, and observability for agentic failure modes including hallucination, tool-call errors, and runaway loops
Understanding of production trade-offs such as latency, cost per call, rate limits, versioning, and rollback under fixed-fee or managed-output SLAs
Demonstrated ownership of technical workstream outcomes with accountability for results, including integration into client environments with security and legacy constraints
EPAM Systems, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

We recognize the value of diversity and inclusion in creating success for our customers, business partners, shareholders, employees and communities.

We are committed to recruiting, hiring, developing and promoting employees without discrimination.

As a global employer, this commitment includes complying with all laws in the countries in which we operate.

Nevertheless, we believe equal employment practices should not be limited to what the law requires.

Equal prospect and inclusion are essential to motivate, empower and recognize the best in everyone.

At EPAM, employment actions are based on individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital or familial status, national origin, ancestry, genetics, age, disability status, veteran status, citizenship status when otherwise legally able to work, or any other characteristic protected by law.

📌 Forward Deployed AI Engineer - Agentic Systems Lead (Canada)
🏢 EPAM Systems
📍 Canada