Chief Agentic AI Engineer

We are looking for a Chief Agentic AI Engineer to build autonomous agent systems at scale and steer decisions across runtime, memory, identity, tools, and observability. You will lead production-grade deployments using AWS Bedrock AgentCore and agentic frameworks, shaping guardrails, evals, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture for building, deploying, and operating autonomous agents across runtime, memory, identity, tools, and observability

• Champion the use of AWS Bedrock AgentCore and the Strands Agents SDK across agent harnesses and production deployments

• Architect long-term memory and context-management systems that remain robust across multi-step engagements

• Develop and maintain MCP servers and tool integrations agents call, including recon, scanners, exploit primitives, and custom internal services

• Optimize reliability, cost, and latency of agent reasoning

• Establish standards for evals, tracing, and guardrails

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building production software, including 2+ year shipping LLM-based agents to production

• Expert proficiency in Python and hands-on use of an agentic framework such as Strands, LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, or CrewAI

• Working knowledge of AWS Bedrock AgentCore primitives, including Runtime, Memory, Identity, Gateway, and Observability, or demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly

• Deep understanding of MCP, tool use, prompt/context engineering, memory architectures, and agent evaluation

• Demonstrated capability to design for production, including observability, guardrails, retries, cost control, and security boundaries

• English proficiency at B2 level or higher

Nice to have

• Prior background in application security, web pentesting, or red-teaming

• Exposure to sandboxed code execution, browser agents, or autonomous tool orchestration

We offer

• International projects with top brands

• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers

• Healthcare benefits

• Employee financial programs

• Paid time off and sick leave

• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses

• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses

• Global career opportunities

• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities

• EPAM Employee Groups

• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn