AI Agent Control Architect & Intelligence Lead

EY; Portland (OR); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Paid time off

Hybrid work model

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced AI Software Architect to design and implement agent control architectures for large-scale multi-agent systems. You will focus on authentication, tool usage, state management, environment control, and policy-driven AI components, aiming for scalable, auditable solutions.

The role requires an advanced degree and 5+ years in software engineering and AI, with hands-on development and cross-functional collaboration across security, data, and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics.
• 5+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Design architectures for agent identity and authentication in large scale multi-agent enterprise systems.
• Design post training and tuning/customization environments.
• Design synthesis models for AI open source models.
• Implement and test architectures benchmarking performance against agent and human evaluations.
• Design comprehensive AI Agent control frameworks.
• Drive agent design requirements and implement through AI Native design process.
• Assess emerging agent authorization architectures and frontier model proposals.
• Collaborate with AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure teams for balanced outcomes.
• Support strategic business development activities for emerging technology as required.
• Present at academic conferences and support IP filings.
• Hands-on development of advanced AI capabilities in agentic control.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Qodo/Codium

Gemini

AWS Q

GitHub

NVIDIA NVAIE

Azure AI

Job description

EY is seeking an experienced AI Software Architect to design and implement agent control architectures for large-scale multi-agent systems. You will focus on authentication, tool usage, state management, environment control, and policy-driven AI components, aiming for scalable, auditable solutions.

The role requires an advanced degree and 5+ years in software engineering and AI, with hands-on development and cross-functional collaboration across security, data, and infrastructure teams.