Forward-Deployed AI Engineer Leader

EY; Baton Rouge (LA); Remote; USD 126,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Paid time off options

Job summary

EY is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer Manager to lead client-embedded AI workstreams and deliver modern AI engineering, ML, and generative AI solutions. You will guide teams across data sources, architecture, and delivery while maintaining responsible deployment and strong collaboration with clients.

You will partner with diverse, hybrid, and global teams, fostering innovation and hands-on development in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required (4-year degree).
• 6–10 years of relevant AI, Data Science, or ML experience.
• 2–4 years of experience managing technical teams.
• Strong skills in Python.
• Ability to lead, collaborate, and communicate with diverse global teams.
• Experience delivering production AI/ML solutions on a major cloud platform.
• Proficiency with foundation models, generative AI, and agentic AI frameworks (OpenAI, Dall‑E, LangChain, RAG).
• Experience with ML packages like scikit-learn and PyTorch.

Responsibilities

• Lead client-embedded AI workstreams from opportunity identification to optimization.
• Redesign client processes for human-AI collaboration and continuous delivery improvement.
• Manage lean, multidisciplinary teams delivering complex AI engineering initiatives.
• Build trust with stakeholders and lead product and agile delivery end-to-end.
• Demonstrate value, identify adjacent use cases and support proposals and engagements.
• Define solution architecture and guide hands-on development of agentic workflows and APIs.
• Establish observability, governance, access controls, and risk mitigations for AI systems.

Skills

Python

OpenAI

LangChain

PyTorch

Jira

GitHub

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

MLOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Cursor

Claude

Codex

Retrieval Augmented Generation

Job description

EY is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer Manager to lead client-embedded AI workstreams and deliver modern AI engineering, ML, and generative AI solutions. You will guide teams across data sources, architecture, and delivery while maintaining responsible deployment and strong collaboration with clients.

You will partner with diverse, hybrid, and global teams, fostering innovation and hands-on development in a fast-paced environment.