Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

EY; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EY in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our Core Business Services. This hands-on role blends technical leadership with practical delivery, designing and building AI agents and automation tools while guiding junior team members.

You will shape projects end to end, set engineering standards, ensure project quality, and align AI initiatives with business needs across multiple portfolios.

Qualifications

• Must have extensive hands-on experience designing and delivering AI-driven solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor teams, with a track record of delivering complex projects.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures and scalable AI architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI agents and automation tools to solve complex business problems.
• Create AI solutions across multiple projects, including orchestration layers and reusable components.
• Balance low-code and pro-code approaches to deliver effective solutions.

Skills

AI engineering

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Code reviews

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

EY in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our Core Business Services. This hands-on role blends technical leadership with practical delivery, designing and building AI agents and automation tools while guiding junior team members.

You will shape projects end to end, set engineering standards, ensure project quality, and align AI initiatives with business needs across multiple portfolios.