AI Systems Engineer: Secure Execution & Trust

EY; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking an AI Systems Engineer to own the security and trust fabric of EY's AI-native platform, spanning identity, secrets, cryptography, and attestation across cloud, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments.

You will drive workload identity, confidential compute, and attestation policies, collaborating with Enterprise Security and SRE to ensure audit-readiness in regulated client contexts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Security, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in security engineering, identity/PKI, or trust infrastructure, with hands-on production ownership.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with workload identity (SPIRE/SPIFFE), IAM (Keycloak/Entra ID), and secrets management (OpenBao/Vault).
• Strong grounding in PKI, X.509 certificate lifecycle (cert-manager), key management, and transit encryption.
• Working experience with confidential compute and hardware attestation (TDX, SEV-SNP, SGX, NVIDIA CC, or equivalents) and secure boot (Intel TXT).
• Experience delivering identity and secrets consistently across multi-tenant, multi-environment (cloud/on-prem/edge/air-gapped) platforms.
• Proven track record operating under compliance, security, or regulatory constraints with audit-grade evidence requirements.
• Ability to define clean ownership boundaries and consumption contracts with platform, data, and runtime teams.

Responsibilities

• Own workload identity and secrets management across diverse environments.
• Build confidential compute environments with trusted hardware and secure boot.
• Establish a platform-wide identity model for end-to-end verifiable identity.
• Own the cryptographic lifecycle: issuance, rotation, revocation, expiry.
• Enforce attestation policy for nodes, enclaves, and workloads.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Security / Cloud Platform / SRE for audit readiness.

Skills

Workload identity

Secrets management

PKI

Cryptographic lifecycle

Confidential compute

Attestation/verification

Security-first mindset

Auditability

Cross-environment operations

Education

BS/MS in CS or security

Tools

SPIRE/SPIFFE

Keycloak/Entra ID

OpenBao/Vault

cert-manager

TDX/SEV-SNP/SGX/TrustZone

DOCA

Job description

EY is seeking an AI Systems Engineer to own the security and trust fabric of EY's AI-native platform, spanning identity, secrets, cryptography, and attestation across cloud, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments.

You will drive workload identity, confidential compute, and attestation policies, collaborating with Enterprise Security and SRE to ensure audit-readiness in regulated client contexts.