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Senior AI Engineer/ A2A, Databricks, MCP
EPAM Systems
Remote · ArmeniaSalary not disclosedfull-timeVerified recentlyEPAM Systems Careers
We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join an enterprise AI platform engineering initiative delivering a Databricks-native, MCP-first platform with a Hub & Spoke governance model, enabling independent spoke teams to build and deploy AI agents across GCP and Azure environments. In this role, you will design and implement core AI agents on the platform, from specification through production-ready deployment, ensuring accurate, reliable, and fully integrated solutions within the platform's shared services.
Responsibilities
- Participate in use case deep-dive sessions and translate business requirements into specifications using a 15-characteristic framework covering scope, tools, memory, guardrails, evaluation criteria, and acceptance definition
- Design and implement the RAG pipeline, including document retrieval, chunking strategy, embedding, reranking, and response generation
- Integrate agents with platform MCP servers for tool access and with the LLM Gateway for model routing
- Implement prompt engineering practices such as system prompts, few-shot examples, and chain-of-thought patterns, and iterate based on evaluation results
- Wire guardrails, including prompt injection protection and domain boundary enforcement, for reference agents
- Run evaluation cycles using the platform Evaluation Framework, including LLM-as-judge scoring and RAG faithfulness and relevance metrics, and iterate until quality gate criteria are met
- Collaborate with the Data Engineer on data schema and retrieval interface design, and with the QA Engineer on test coverage and the acceptance test query set
- Support UAT with business stakeholders, address feedback, and prepare agents for production deployment following the platform runbook
Languages
- Work format
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Posted
- 22 Sept 2026 (today)
- Last verified
- 22 Sept 2026
