Domain Architect - Control Intelligence - Manager

EY; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible vacation policy

Total Rewards package

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to lead a team of domain experts in designing AI Agent Control. You will shape architectures for multi-agent systems, tool usage, state management, and policy application in a fast-paced environment.

You will drive integration across AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure, mentor engineers, and collaborate with academia to advance agent authentication, observability, and federated learning.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a relevant engineering/science field and 10+ years of software/AI experience.
• Experience with multi-agent systems, agent authentication, and orchestration.
• Proficiency with AI-native tools, modern CI/CD and secure software practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI software architecture for universal agentic control harnesses.
• Design and implement multi-agent control frameworks and authentication.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with AI, security and data teams.
• Drive post-training and tuning environments and governance.
• Present research at conferences and support IP development.

Skills

Leadership

Architectural design

AI/ML expertise

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Multi-agent systems

Critical thinking

Education

Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Qodo/Codium

Gemini

AWS Q

GitHub

Python

Bash

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Java

NVIDIA NVAIE

AWS AI Stack

Azure AI Stack

Job description

Location: Anywhere in Country

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

The opportunity

We’re hiring an experienced Lead AI Software Architect that to lead a team of domain architect experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control. This role is for a software AI leader who has built Agent control including tool usage, state management/persistence, execution environment control, policy definition and application, multiagent API and anomaly detection. Extensive experience in agent authentication, observability, telemetry and authorization logging design is also in scope for this role. These capabilities will be a universal control harness for managing agentic systems. Managing post training and customization/tuning environments including federated learning. Using Implementation of agent personas and types for agent design is in scope as well. The candidate should thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about enabling scalable AI solutions.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Design of control harness intelligence systems including multiagent systems and associated tools and scaffolding.
• Design architectures for agent identity and authentication in large scale multi-agent enterprise systems.
• Design of post training and tuning/customization environments.
• Design of synthesis models for AI open-source models.
• Implement and test these architectures benchmarking performance against agent and human designed evals.
• Design comprehensive AI Agent control frameworks.
• Drive agent design requirements and implement through AI Native design process.
• Assess through primary and secondary research emerging agent authorization architectures and frontier model proposals.
• Collaborate with other architectural experts in AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure to insure balanced and practical outcomes.
• Support strategic business development activities for emerging technology as required.
• Present at academic conferences and support development of IP filings
• Hands on development of the advanced AI capabilities in agentic control.
• Lead a team of experts in building a universal agentic control harnesses.

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to lead software architectural product functions and mentor junior engineers.
• Comfort working across cross-functional teams and managing competing priorities.
• Build and manage strong internal and external partnerships by fostering trust, empathy, and mutual value.
• Leverage emotional agility and hybrid collaboration to navigate diverse stakeholder needs and drive long-term engagement.
• Use critical thinking and creative reasoning to address complex problems and exceed expectations.
• Align cross-functional teams around shared goals, ensuring accountability and progress. Use emotional intelligence and hybrid collaboration to motivate others and deliver high-impact results.

To qualify you must have

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics.
• 10+ 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.

Ideally, you'll also have

• Experience with large-scale cross functional software development projects.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities.

What We Offer You

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams.

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $125,500 to $230,200. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $150,700 to $261,600. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
• Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
• Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well‑being.

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