About the Role
We are hiring an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to lead a team of domain architect experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control. This role is for a software AI leader with extensive experience in agent control, including tool usage, state management/persistence, execution environment control, policy definition and application, multi-agent API, and anomaly detection. Experience in agent authentication, observability, telemetry, and authorization logging design is also in scope. These capabilities will form a universal control harness for managing agentic systems, including post-training and customization/tuning environments, and federated learning. Implementation of agent personas and types for agent design is also included. The candidate should thrive in fast-paced environments and be passionate about enabling scalable AI solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design of control harness intelligence systems including multi-agent systems and associated tools and scaffolding.
- Design architectures for agent identity and authentication in large scale multi-agent enterprise systems.
- Design of post training and tuning/customization environments.
- Design of synthesis models for AI open-source models.
- Implement and test these architectures benchmarking performance against agent and human designed evals.
- Design comprehensive AI Agent control frameworks.
- Drive agent design requirements and implement through AI Native design process.
- Assess through primary and secondary research emerging agent authorization architectures and frontier model proposals.
- Collaborate with other architectural experts in AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure to insure balanced and practical outcomes.
- Support strategic business development activities for emerging technology as required.
- Present at academic conferences and support development of IP filings.
- Hands on development of the advanced AI capabilities in agentic control.
- Lead a team of experts in building a universal agentic control harnesses.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering and AI.
- Experience working with multi-agent system administration and modern secrets management.
- Use of AI native software development tools / code assist (Cursor, Claude Code, Qodo/Codium, Gemini, AWS Q, GitHub).
- Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Bash, Typescript etc….) and software languages (Go, Rust, Java etc…).
- Understand AI Native design process and principles.
- Experience with cryptographic methods of identity and auth.
- Experience with modern software IDE, CI/CD pipeline, modern code hosting and collaboration (Github/Gitlab/Azure DevOps etc…)
- Experience with Nvidia NVAIE, AWS and MSFT Azure AI stacks.
- Experience with large-scale cross functional software development projects.
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
Skills
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to lead software architectural product functions and mentor junior engineers.
- Comfort working across cross-functional teams and managing competing priorities.
- Build and manage strong internal and external partnerships by fostering trust, empathy, and mutual value.
- Leverage emotional agility and hybrid collaboration to navigate diverse stakeholder needs and drive long-term engagement.
- Use critical thinking and creative reasoning to address complex problems and exceed expectations.
- Align cross-functional teams around shared goals, ensuring accountability and progress.
- Use emotional intelligence and hybrid collaboration to motivate others and deliver high-impact results.
Location
- Anywhere in Country
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering and AI
Education Level
- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics
Salary/Compensations
- $125,500 to $230,200 (US)
- $150,700 to $261,600 (New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California)
Benefits
- Medical and dental coverage
- Pension and 401(k) plans
- Wide range of paid time off options
- Flexible vacation policy
- Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence
About the Company
- EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
- Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
- EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions.
- Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
Equal Opportunity
- EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.
- EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities.
