Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead AI Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of a next-generation AI Gateway platform. This role involves owning the architecture for secure, scalable access to Large Language Models and agentic workflows, ensuring integration and governance across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Develop the AI Gateway platform, including MCP, agents, LLM routing, governance and observability
- Translate business and product requirements into clear problem statements, architectural designs and scalable technical solutions
- Design extensible frameworks for MCP server capabilities and integrations as well as agent orchestration and reusable agent skills
- Architect gateway capabilities such as semantic caching for LLM responses, rate limiting, quotas and traffic governance and guardrails and validation layers for safe LLM/MCP usage
- Design and review authentication and authorization models, including multiple OIDC-based flows, identity propagation and token-based access control for MCP and LLM traffic
- Build prototypes and reference implementations to validate architectural decisions and guide engineering teams
- Partner with multiple product teams integrating with the AI Gateway, providing architecture guidance, best practices and integration patterns
- Review designs and code, providing actionable feedback to ensure quality, performance, scalability and security
- Define and review CI/CD best practices using modern GitHub-based pipelines
- Architect and review Kubernetes-based deployment models, ensuring scalability, resiliency and production readiness
Skills
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems or platform products
- Proficiency in Golang and Python
- Familiarity with AI-centric development with a strong emphasis on quality gates and architecture patterns to enforce agentic behavior in producing quality code
- Deep understanding of AI gateways, AI/LLM platforms or middleware systems, including routing, governance and scalability
- Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures for multi-tenant SAAS environments, PostgreSQL for transactional data and Redis for caching and distributed coordination
- Strong background in authentication and authorization systems, particularly OAuth-based approaches
- Demonstrated ability to independently drive problem definition, architecture, prototype and execution guidance
- Experience designing platforms and frameworks used by multiple product teams
- English proficiency at B2 level or higher
- Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), agentic platforms or AI orchestration frameworks
- Knowledge or know-how in working with EDA software
- Prior work on LLM gateways, API gateways or AI middleware platforms
- Experience building generic developer frameworks or SDKs adopted across teams
- Familiarity with guardrails, semantic caching, prompt/response optimization and LLM cost control techniques
Benefits
- Delivering innovative solutions to industry leaders, making a global impact
- Enjoyable working environment, whether it is the vibrant office or the comfort of your home
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Relocation opportunities within our offices in 55+ countries
- Corporate and social events
- Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning and Udemy
- Free English classes with certified teachers
- Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Comprehensive medical & family care package
- Four trust days per year for personal needs
- Discounts for fitness clubs
- Benefits package (hotels, restaurants, stores and services)
Company Overview
EPAM leverages its core engineering expertise as a leading global product development and digital platform engineering services company. It was founded in 1993, and is headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.epam.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
EPAM Systems has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 11 in 2026, 120 in 2025, 172 in 2024, 232 in 2023, 373 in 2022, 359 in 2021, 502 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.