Forward-Deployed AI Engineer Manager

EY; Chicago (IL); 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

Job summary

EY is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer Manager to lead AI/ML initiatives and deliver modern AI engineering solutions for clients. You will work with diverse teams to diagnose business problems, identify opportunities, and build scalable AI, ML, and agentic systems across cloud and on-prem environments.

The role requires deep engineering expertise, strong client leadership, and the ability to drive solution design, delivery, and governance while mentoring multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required (4-year degree).
• 6–10 years of relevant experience in AI, data science, and/or machine learning.
• 2–4 years of experience directly managing technical teams.
• Strong skills in Python.
• Experience identifying, solutioning, designing, building, deploying, operating, and expanding production AI/ML solutions on a major cloud platform.
• Proficient in foundation models, generative AI, and agentic AI frameworks (OpenAI, Dall-E, Langchain, RAG).
• Experience with ML packages like scikit-learn and PyTorch.
• Experience with NLP, deep learning, MLOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with model retraining, evaluation, observability, and monitoring.
• Excellent communication and willingness to travel for client engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead client-embedded AI workstreams from opportunity identification to deployment and optimization.
• Redesign client processes for human-AI collaboration and drive delivery improvement.
• Manage lean, multidisciplinary teams while maintaining architecture decisions and accountable delivery.
• Build trust with stakeholders and lead product and agile delivery from planning to closure.
• Demonstrate value, identify adjacent use cases, and support solution demonstrations and proposals.
• Define solution architecture and guide hands-on development of agentic workflows and integrations.
• Establish governance, access controls, and responsible operation of AI systems.
• Coach teams on AI-native development tools (Claude, Codex, Cursor, GitHub) and increase delivery speed.

Skills

Python

AI/ML experience

Client engagement

Leadership

Communication

Technical design

Travel for client engagements

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Claude

Codex

Cursor

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

EY is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer Manager to lead AI/ML initiatives and deliver modern AI engineering solutions for clients. You will work with diverse teams to diagnose business problems, identify opportunities, and build scalable AI, ML, and agentic systems across cloud and on-prem environments.

The role requires deep engineering expertise, strong client leadership, and the ability to drive solution design, delivery, and governance while mentoring multidisciplinary teams.