Lead AI Architect — Multi-Agent Control & Innovation

EY; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) / pension

Job summary

EY in Atlanta is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to lead a team of domain architect experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control. This role requires deep expertise in agent design, authentication, observability and policy definition across multi-agent systems.

You will drive architecture, oversee post-training environments, vendor interactions, and present at conferences. A strong track record in scalable AI solutions and a senior software engineering background (10+

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing AI agent control systems.
• Experience with large-scale multi-agent enterprise systems.
• Proficient in AI-native development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design control harness intelligence systems for multiagent setups.
• Architect agent identity and authentication at scale.
• Design post-training and tuning environments.
• Develop synthesis models for AI open-source models.
• Benchmark architectures and evaluate against AI/human evals.
• Drive agent design requirements through AI-native processes.
• Research emerging authorization architectures and frontier models.
• Collaborate with AI, Security, Data and Infra teams.
• Support business development for emerging tech as needed.
• Present at conferences and assist IP filings.
• Hands-on development of advanced AI capabilities.
• Lead a team building universal agentic control harnesses.

Skills

AI architecture leadership

Multi-agent systems

Agent authentication

Observability / telemetry

Python / Bash / TS

Go / Rust / Java

CI / CD pipelines

NVIDIA NVAIE / AWS / Azure AI

Cryptographic identity/auth

Education

Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics

Tools

Cursor, Claude Code, Qodo/Codium, Gemini, AWS Q, GitHub

Job description

EY in Atlanta is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to lead a team of domain architect experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control. This role requires deep expertise in agent design, authentication, observability and policy definition across multi-agent systems.

You will drive architecture, oversee post-training environments, vendor interactions, and present at conferences. A strong track record in scalable AI solutions and a senior software engineering background (10+