AI-Driven Product Engineering Lead

EY; Greenville (SC); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards package includes medical

Job summary

EY is seeking a seasoned engineer to turn emerging AI capabilities into durable products. You’ll operate as an end-to-end builder, close to users, product decisions, and production code, balancing speed with accessibility, maintainability, and careful risk management.

The Challenger program builds and tests AI-enabled services with small, focused teams. You’ll own production quality, shape AI behavior, and drive responsible use while collaborating across product, design, and platform teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant and applicable experience.
• End-to-end delivery: taking software from concept to launch, adoption.
• Technical breadth across frontend, backend, API, data, and cloud technologies.
• Applied AI experience with large language models, retrieval, tools, or similar patterns.
• Evaluation experience with automated testing and behavioral evaluation.
• Live-service ownership including telemetry, debugging, and incident response.
• User-centered practice with direct work with users, designers, and product leaders.

Responsibilities

• Start with the user by understanding workflows with users and domain experts.
• Test assumptions quickly with concise specifications, prototypes, and small releases.
• Own complete product slices across experience, services, data, AI behavior, and enterprise integrations.
• Shape AI behavior with instructions, context, retrieval, outputs, and tool use.
• Build the evidence system with tasks and automated evaluations to show usefulness, safety, and accessibility.
• Connect outcomes to behavior by instrumenting user journeys and measuring adoption, latency, and cost.
• Engineer for responsible use with clear permission boundaries, data handling, and rollback.
• Own production quality by releasing incrementally and monitoring live behavior.
• Make practical trade-offs balancing experience, quality, speed, reliability, and cost.
• Contribute reusable patterns by sharing components and evaluation assets.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

AI application depth

Product judgment

Evaluation discipline

Production ownership

High-agency collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

Job description

EY is seeking a seasoned engineer to turn emerging AI capabilities into durable products. You’ll operate as an end-to-end builder, close to users, product decisions, and production code, balancing speed with accessibility, maintainability, and careful risk management.

The Challenger program builds and tests AI-enabled services with small, focused teams. You’ll own production quality, shape AI behavior, and drive responsible use while collaborating across product, design, and platform teams.