Chief AI Engineer

About the Position

We are seeking a Chief AI Engineer to lead our AI initiatives, solve complex problems, and enhance software development with AI. Join our team in Belarus for a hybrid role.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of a goal from concept to delivery: understand the problem, challenge assumptions, choose an approach, and follow through to a production feature, validated architecture, or AI workflow.
• Put coding agents to work to explore codebases, implement features, test, debug, and review changes.
• Decide what to delegate to agents, where to intervene, and how to verify results.
• Configure and extend agent harnesses, including context, skills, specialized agents, hooks, tools, and execution environments.
• Connect agents to real repositories and engineering workflows to maximize their usefulness.
• Build feedback loops to improve agent performance over time.
• Try new approaches on real problems and measure what improves.
• Help teammates adopt practices and tools that demonstrably work.
• Write production code, reason about architecture, and debug unfamiliar systems.
• Explain technical decisions clearly and take responsibility for outcomes, including code written by agents.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience shipping and maintaining production software.
• Daily hands-on experience with coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or equivalents.
• Understanding of agent capabilities, limitations, and failure modes.
• Hands-on experience configuring and adapting agent harnesses using skills, specialized agents, and hooks.
• Understanding of context management, execution loops, state, and failure recovery in agentic systems.
• Capability to turn open-ended goals into practical steps and work through blockers independently.
• Skills in architecture reasoning, debugging unfamiliar systems, and explaining technical decisions.
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher.

Nice to Have

• Experience building a coding-agent harness from scratch.
• Familiarity with custom tools or MCP integrations.
• Background in agent evaluations.
• Experience coordinating multiple agents.

We Offer

We connect like-minded people: Delivering innovative solutions to industry leaders, making a global impact. Enjoyable working environment, whether it's the vibrant office or the comfort of your own home. Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year.

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: Monetary bonuses for taking part in the referral program. Comprehensive medical & family care package. Seven trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate). Discounts from 800+ partners (sports activities, restaurants, stores and services).

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