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Lead AI Platform Engineer
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We are seeking a
Lead AI Platform Engineer
to lead the design and evolution of a next-generation AI Gateway platform that enables secure, scalable and governed access to Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic workflows across the enterprise in a SAAS environment. This role owns the end-to-end architecture covering MCP (Model Context Protocol), agents, multi-provider LLM integrations, authentication and authorization, semantic caching, rate limiting, guardrails and reusable frameworks for agent and tool development.
This is a fully remote position that offers you the flexibility to work from any location in Armenia, whether it's your home or well-equipped offices in Yerevan or Gyumri.
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
Requirements
- 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
Nice to have
- 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
We offer
- We connect like-minded people
- 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
- We invest in your growth
- Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
- Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
- Free English classes with certified teachers
- We cover it all
- 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)
EPAM is global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, we empower our clients to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.
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