Client Technology - Engineering - AI Lead Engineer

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking an AI Lead Engineer to drive delivery of AI-enabled solutions and infrastructure for complex projects. You will own design, development and maintenance of systems, while ensuring business and technical alignment across teams.

Ideal candidates will have 10+ years of experience in software/platform engineering, strong AI/ML capabilities, and hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub and ADO. A bachelor’s degree in a related field is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field preferred
• More than 10 years applied experience
• Experience in software/platform engineering roles
• Strong understanding of AI/ML infrastructure and APIs

Responsibilities

• Leads delivery of solution or infrastructure development for complex projects
• Owns design, development, delivery and maintenance of solutions/infrastructure
• Ensures alignment with business requirements and technical standards
• Provides technical leadership and drives continuous improvement
• Collaborates with Development, Architecture and Engineering teams

Skills

Advanced technical proficiency

One of: DotNet/C#/Java or Python

CI/CD delivery

Language model fine-tuning

AI/ML deployment

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub

ADO

Job description

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Client Technology - Engineering - AI Lead Engineer

Other locations: Primary Location Only

Date: Aug 13, 2026

Requisition ID: 1692180

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The opportunity

• Leads the delivery of solution or infrastructure development services for a large or more complex project, using strong technical capabilities and outstanding hands‑on experience!
• Takes accountability for the design, development, delivery and maintenance of solutions or infrastructure, driving compliance with and contributing to the development of relevant standards
• Fully understands business and user requirements and ensures design specifications meet the requirements from a business and technical perspective

Your key responsibilities

• Solves complex and escalated aspects of a project, performing coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process
• Provides advanced technical expertise to maximize efficiency, reliability and value from current solutions, infrastructure and emerging technologies, showing technical leadership and identifying and implementing continuous improvement plans
• Develops strong working relationships with peers across Development & Engineering and Architecture teams, collaborating to develop and engineer leading solutions
• Provides a leadership role for the work group, ensuring the appropriate expectations, principles, structures, tools and responsibilities are in place to deliver the project
• Drives consistency to the relevant processes, procedures, standards, technical design whilst supporting the definition, maintenance and implementation of technology standard

Skills and attributes for success

• Advanced technical proficiency in designing, developing, and debugging solutions
• Advanced knowledge of one or more of: DotNet,C#/Java or Python
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, IT, Mathematics, or related field preferred
• More than 10 years applied experience
• Significant relevant experience in either an internal or external software or platform engineering role, or similar
• Technical knowledge and experience in delivering software / platform engineering solutions (depending on specialism), providing comprehensive technical advice and handling user requirements
• CI/CD delivery using code management, configuration management and automation tools such as GitHub, ADO
• Proficiency in fine‑tuning language models for specific tasks, including text generation, summarization, or question answering
• Knowledge of embedding models and their application in NLP tasks like similarity matching, clustering, and information retrieval
• Familiarity with designing and implementing agentic systems that combine AI models with external tools or environments for autonomous decision‑making
• Ability to design robust evaluation frameworks for AI models and agents, including metrics development, A/B testing, and performance benchmarking

Ideally, you’ll also

• Microsoft/Google/AWS certificates
• Delivery using modern methodologies
• Significant proven experience in building application using container‑orchestration systems like Kubernetes, and container engines like Docker

What we look for

• A self‑starter, independent‑thinker, curious and creative person with ambition and passion

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