Forward-Deployed AI Engineering Leader

EY; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Pension

Discounted health insurance

Web Doctor access

Additional annual leave

Job summary

EY is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Senior Manager in Dublin to lead client-embedded AI delivery and translate AI ambitions into scalable, enterprise-grade solutions. You will collaborate with EY partners and client stakeholders to design, build and deploy AI systems that operate within regulated, large-scale environments.

You will own end-to-end delivery, mentoring multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring security, governance, and performance across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem

Qualifications

• 7+ years of AI/ML engineering experience with strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design with Python in production environments.
• Deep applied AI/ML mastery: NLP/transformers, generative models (GANs/VAEs), reinforcement learning, classical ML and statistical modelling.
• Advanced LLM/RAG engineering: prompt pipelines, embeddings, vector stores, hybrid retrieval, grounding, hallucination mitigation and evaluation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguous client problems into concrete AI solutions by partnering with clients to understand workflows and success metrics.
• Translate business challenges into AI use cases such as prediction, automation, retrieval, or agent workflows.
• Define MVP scope, data requirements, and evaluation criteria with stakeholders.
• Build prototypes using LLMs, RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, agents, and traditional ML models.
• Design AI architectures including data ingestion, feature pipelines, embeddings, vector stores, model selection, tuning, and evaluation.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

NLP transformers

LLMOps/MLOps

Cloud platforms

Data infrastructure

Python production

Team leadership

Tools

FAISS

Milvus

Pinecone

RAG pipelines

Vector stores

Job description

EY is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Senior Manager in Dublin to lead client-embedded AI delivery and translate AI ambitions into scalable, enterprise-grade solutions. You will collaborate with EY partners and client stakeholders to design, build and deploy AI systems that operate within regulated, large-scale environments.

You will own end-to-end delivery, mentoring multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring security, governance, and performance across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem