Lead AI Architect: Agent Control & Systems

EY; Fort Worth (TX); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Paid time off

Hybrid work model

Job summary

EY seeks an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to lead a team of domain experts in designing AI Agent Control. The role focuses on agent authentication, telemetry, and open-framework integration for scalable AI systems.

You will shape post-training environments, federated learning, and real-time evaluation across enterprise solutions. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years in software engineering/AI, advanced degrees, and hands-on leadership in large-scale AI projects, with a strong

Qualifications

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

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

Strong analytical and troubleshooting

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Emotional intelligence

Critical thinking

Mentoring junior engineers

Education

Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Qodo/Codium

Gemini

AWS Q

GitHub

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Python

Bash

Typescript

Go

Rust

Java

Job description

EY seeks an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to lead a team of domain experts in designing AI Agent Control. The role focuses on agent authentication, telemetry, and open-framework integration for scalable AI systems.

You will shape post-training environments, federated learning, and real-time evaluation across enterprise solutions. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years in software engineering/AI, advanced degrees, and hands-on leadership in large-scale AI projects, with a strong