AI Systems Engineer: Secure Execution & Trust

EY; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

EY seeks AI Systems Engineers to own the security and trust fabric of EY's AI-native platform. You will manage workload identity, secrets, PKI, and attestation across cloud, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments, ensuring trust and auditability in regulated contexts.

You will collaborate across teams to enforce policy, drive cryptographic lifecycle, and shape secure, compliant infrastructure for enterprise AI workloads.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own workload identity and secrets management across all environments.
• Build confidential compute environments with TEEs and secure boot to keep systems isolated and auditable.
• Establish a platform-wide identity model for verifiable, propagated identity across telemetry and policy enforcement.
• Own the cryptographic lifecycle: certificates, keys, and roots with zero manual secret sprawl.
• Enforce attestation policy and capture evidence for audit in runtime and boot.
• Partner with Enterprise Security / Cloud Platform / SRE to ensure audit readiness in regulated contexts.

Skills

Security engineering

Identity management

PKI

Cryptography

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related field

Tools

SPIRE/SPIFFE

Keycloak/Entra ID

OpenBao

cert-manager

Job description

EY seeks AI Systems Engineers to own the security and trust fabric of EY's AI-native platform. You will manage workload identity, secrets, PKI, and attestation across cloud, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments, ensuring trust and auditability in regulated contexts.

You will collaborate across teams to enforce policy, drive cryptographic lifecycle, and shape secure, compliant infrastructure for enterprise AI workloads.