Lead AI Architect – Universal Agent Control (Hybrid)

Ernst & Young Oman; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Generous paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to lead a team of domain experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control. You will architect control harnesses for multiagent systems, including authentication, telemetry, and orchestration across environments, and drive the development of scalable AI capabilities.

The role requires deep leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and hands-on delivery of high-impact AI software across vendor and client ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and AI.
• Experience with multi-agent system administration and modern secrets management.
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Bash, Typescript) and software languages (Go, Rust, Java).
• 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).
• Experience with Nvidia NVAIE, AWS and MSFT Azure AI stacks.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Analytical skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Partnership building

Emotional intelligence

Critical thinking

Team motivation

Education

Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Qodo/Codium

Gemini

AWS Q

GitHub

NVIDIA NVAIE

AWS AI stacks

Azure AI stacks

Job description

EY is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to lead a team of domain experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control. You will architect control harnesses for multiagent systems, including authentication, telemetry, and orchestration across environments, and drive the development of scalable AI capabilities.

The role requires deep leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and hands-on delivery of high-impact AI software across vendor and client ecosystems.