Chief Forward Deployed Engineer
EPAM Systems (Poland) sp. z o.o.
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B2B
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Kraków
Expires Oct 4, 2026
15 days ago
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Chief Forward Deployed Engineer role requiring 7+ years of experience in AI/LLM production applications. Responsibilities include designing AI-native systems, evaluation pipelines, and Python development. Requires strong agent-design, RAG, and cloud deployment skills.
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- Design, build, and ship AI-native systems E2E — agents, workflows, RAG, and the harness: custom tool calling, sandboxing, context engineering and sub-agents, caching, compaction
- Build the evaluation pipelines and use them to prove the system is genuinely useful
- Design for failure in the agent loop: retries, model fallbacks, cost limits, and human-in-the-loop on consequential actions
- Capture domain expertise and repeatable workflows — so what works on one engagement carries to the next
- Engage early, to help shape the use case and check technical feasibility
- Write production-grade Python: integrations, APIs, data access, deployment
- Work directly with SMEs and end-users — interviews, UAT, observing the real workflow — and validate that the system fits how people actually work
Our requirements
- 7+ years of engineering experience, with a strong recent track record building production AI / LLM applications (not prototypes or research only)
- Strong agent-design judgment — task-harness fit, matching the harness to the context, failures, and policies of the actual task rather than calling a model in a loop
- The ability to operate close to the client: lead discovery and feasibility conversations, work directly with SMEs and end-users, and explain technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or similar) and major LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini)
- Expert-level Python and solid software engineering fundamentals
- Strong RAG and retrieval skills: vector databases, embeddings, hybrid search, re-ranking, chunking, and context management
- Proven experience evaluating generative AI quality — LLM-based evaluation, heuristics, custom eval frameworks — and using observability/tracing tools (LangSmith, Arize Phoenix, Langfuse, or similar)
- Production deployment experience on at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with containerization, CI/CD
- Sound judgment under ambiguity — scoping, sequencing, and making the call on speed vs. quality vs. scope
- English at C1 level
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- Experience designing experiments, A/B testing, and iterating on AI products against real user behavior and business metrics
- Background in NLP, Data Science, or applied ML, with experience moving models into production
- Familiarity with MCP, A2A, Agent Skills, and emerging agent standards
- Experience with enterprise AI platforms (AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Databricks Genie, Microsoft Foundry, Gemini Enterprise)
- Exposure to AI governance, security, and compliance (guardrails, prompt-injection prevention)
- Prior client-facing or pre-sales exposure in a consulting or services context
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