Senior AI Engineer/ A2A, Databricks, MCP

Senior AI Engineer/ A2A, Databricks, MCP 🏢 EPAM Systems 📍 Remote · Armenia 🕐 Full Time About the role We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join an enterprise AI platform engineering initiative delivering a Databricks-native, MCP-first platform with a Hub & Spoke governance model, enabling independent spoke teams to build and deploy AI agents across GCP and Azure environments. In this role, you will design and implement core AI agents on the platform, from specification through production-ready deployment, ensuring accurate, reliable, and fully integrated solutions within the platform's shared services. What you’ll do 🗂 • Participate in use case deep-dive sessions and translate business requirements into specifications using a 15-characteristic framework covering scope, tools, memory, guardrails, evaluation criteria, and acceptance definition • Design and implement the RAG pipeline, including document retrieval, chunking strategy, embedding, reranking, and response generation • Integrate agents with platform MCP servers for tool access and with the LLM Gateway for model routing • Implement prompt engineering practices such as system prompts, few-shot examples, and chain-of-thought patterns, and iterate based on evaluation results • Wire guardrails, including prompt injection protection and domain boundary enforcement, for reference agents • Run evaluation cycles using the platform Evaluation Framework, including LLM-as-judge scoring and RAG faithfulness and relevance metrics, and iterate until quality gate criteria are met What we’re looking for 🔎 • 3+ years of experience building LLM-based applications in Python • Hands-on experience with RAG pipelines, covering retrieval, chunking, embedding, reranking, and generation • Expertise in Databricks and MLflow, including experiment tracking and model serving awareness • Experience with vector stores such as Chroma, Pinecone, or Databricks Vector Search, or equivalent • Skills in REST API integration and OAuth authentication flows • Clear communication with non-technical business stakeholders during UAT and discovery sessions How to apply 🙋 Open on ITA Jobs and apply → More IT vacancies in Armenia, matched to your CV — jobs.ita.am/vacancies #Data #Senior #Python