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About the Role

We are seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead the delivery of AI-native systems into highly regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. This role sits at the intersection of real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback, ensuring that AI systems move from concept to production with speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor. The Advanced Forward Engineering (AFE) team is accountable for making AI systems work in reality, under client constraints, regulatory scrutiny, and operational pressure. The Distinguished AFE operates as a cross‑cell technical leader, partnering closely with Product Engineering, Product Architecture, and governance authorities while remaining anchored in delivery outcomes. This role is ideal for a seasoned engineer who combines deep technical judgment with strong client presence, systems thinking, and the ability to translate messy field reality into durable, reusable patterns for the enterprise.

Responsibilities

Serve as a cross-engagement technical authority, ensuring delivery implementations adhere to architecture intent, safety, and economic constraints in regulated environments.
Synthesize learnings from multiple delivery cells into durable reference integrations, validated implementations, and reusable patterns that reduce repeated failure modes.
Work with AI agents to support regulated safe-to-ship decisions by contributing technical evidence and validation inputs.
Operate as a player-coach, contributing directly to complex system design and implementation while guiding delivery teams toward consistent, repeatable approaches.
Own the consolidation, prioritization, and communication of cross-cell product signals, converting field observations and client-specific adaptations into evidence-based recommendations, distinguishing them from isolated customer requests.
Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package consolidated client patterns into technical business cases, backlog candidates, and platform investment recommendations.
Participate in shaping sessions, architecture reviews, and prioritization discussions, advocating changes that improve portability, operability, and customer outcomes.

Requirements

10+ years of experience delivering complex AI enterprise systems, ideally in regulated industries.
Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration‑heavy architectures.
Hands‑on experience with modern AI‑enabled application stacks (e.g., agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, LLM‑backed services).
Proven ability to operate in forward‑deployed or customer‑facing engineering roles, owning outcomes under real‑world constraints.
Track record of creating reusable technical patterns or platforms that scale beyond a single engagement.
Experience collaborating closely with architecture, product, and platform teams.
Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycle, quality gates, and production readiness in enterprise settings.

Skills

Deep technical expertise across a broad range of technology domains (AI/ML, Software Engineering, Systems Design, Security, Compute, Data, Networking, DevOps).
Strong product intuition with the ability to transform field observations into executive-ready recommendations, roadmap inputs, and reusable platform capabilities.
Ability to balance immediate delivery needs with long-term platform evolution, ensuring short-term solutions contribute to enduring enterprise capabilities.
Operate effectively across delivery, architecture, product, and governance domains simultaneously.
High credibility with senior engineers, architects, and client stakeholders.
Pragmatic mindset: balances ideal design with real constraints (regulatory, organizational, environmental).
Clear communicator who can explain complex technical tradeoffs with evidence and precision.
Bias toward repeatability and long-term maintainability over one-off solutions.
Intellectual curiosity and continuous learning orientation in AI-native development and system design.
Expertise with AI/ML lifecycle management, observability, and validation approaches.
Experience working with AI governance, security, and cost controls in production environments.
Ability to influence client and internal stakeholders, and platform direction through technical credibility and evidence.
Experience building reference implementations, test harnesses, and validation frameworks.
Exposure to regulated delivery contexts (e.g., financial services, tax, healthcare, risk platforms).

Location

Anywhere in Country

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior
10+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Salary/Compensations

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $144,000 to $329,100.
The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $172,800 to $374,000.

Benefits

Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
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. If you have a disability and either need assistance applying online or need to request an accommodation during any part of the application process, please call 1-800-EY-HELP3, select Option 2 for candidate related inquiries, then select Option 1 for candidate queries and finally select Option 2 for candidates with an inquiry which will route you to EY’s Talent Shared Services Team (TSS) or email the TSS at ssc.customersupport@ey.com.