Senior/Lead/Chief AI Native Engineer

You still get a kick out of understanding a tricky system, tracking down a stubborn bug, or shipping something people actually use. AI has made you more ambitious about what you can build.

At EPAM, we’re looking for engineers who love the craft and know how to use AI to move faster. You’ll solve real client problems, make architectural decisions, and help your team find better ways to build software.

Responsibilities

• Take a goal and make it happen Understand the problem, challenge assumptions, choose an approach, and follow through The result might be a production feature, a validated architecture, or an AI workflow that makes the team more effective
• Put coding agents to work Use them to explore codebases, implement features, test, debug, and review changes Decide what to delegate, where to intervene, and how to verify the result
• Make agents more useful Configure and extend their harnesses: context, skills, specialized agents, hooks, tools, execution environments, and feedback loops Connect them to real repositories and engineering workflows
• Help good ideas spread Try things on real problems, measure what improves, and help teammates adopt approaches that work

Requirements

• Engineering depth You've shipped and maintained production software You can write code, reason about architecture, debug unfamiliar systems, and explain your technical decisions
• Daily experience with coding agents You're fluent with tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or equivalents You understand their capabilities, limitations, and failure modes
• Hands-on harness experience You've configured and adapted the systems around an agent, using building blocks such as skills, specialized agents, hooks, and tool integrations You understand context, execution loops, state, failure recovery, and how to verify completion
• A focus on outcomes You turn an open-ended goal into practical steps, work through blockers, and bring others along You take responsibility for the result, including code an agent wrote
• Building a coding-agent harness from scratch is a big plus So are custom tools or MCP integrations, agent evaluations, and experience coordinating multiple agents

We offer

• Engineering Heritage: Best-in-class experts sharing a culture of engineering excellence and tackling complex engineering challenges for over 30 years.
• Advanced Tech Stack: Innovative projects where you can apply or enhance your expertise in Cloud, Data, AI, and other emerging technologies.
• World-Class Clients: Work closely with 340+ of the Forbes Global 2000 on creating disruptive solutions that make a global impact.
• Professional Growth: Exceptional support for career development with comprehensive resources for upskilling or reskilling in pioneering practices.
• GenAI Community: Strong AI competencies with 600+ experts across 55+ locations driving GenAI-enabled transformation journeys.
• Entrepreneurial Culture: If you're passionate and dedicated to improving business transformation, we provide the support you need to bring your ideas to life.
• Hybrid Setup: The flexibility to work from any location in Latvia, whether it's your home or our office in Riga.
• Other Benefits: Additional vacation and trust days, private health insurance, Employee Stock Purchase Plan and more.

Feel free to work remotely from anywhere across Latvia or connect with colleagues at our Riga office.

Salary range €4K-€6.7K gross, based on your experience and interview results.

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. For over 30 years, our team has helped leading brands navigate the waves of digital transformation, building solutions that help them stay competitive through constant market disruption.With offices in 55+ countries, EPAM has grown in Latvia to over 150+ talented innovators in 4 years. We foster creativity and unconventional ways of doing things, welcoming like-minded professionals to join us.

Remote in Latvia