Lead AI-Driven Product Engineering Manager

EY; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Generous paid time off

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced engineer to join Challenger, EY’s program focused on next-generation services powered by AI. You will be close to users, translate conversations into prototypes, and drive ideas through to secure services and production code.

The role emphasizes ownership, testing, and delivering durable software in a fast-paced product cycle. You’ll navigate from user conversations to working prototypes and from prototypes to production systems, balancing speed with accessibility,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant and applicable experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field of study.
• End-to-end delivery: A record of taking customer- or employee-facing software from an unclear concept through launch, learning, and adoption.
• Technical breadth: Strong full-stack capability across modern frontend, backend, API, data, and cloud technologies, demonstrated through shipped work.
• Applied AI experience: Hands-on experience building products with large language models, retrieval, tools, or comparable AI application patterns.
• Evaluation experience: Evidence of automated testing and behavioral evaluation for systems with variable or probabilistic outputs.
• Live-service ownership: Demonstrated responsibility for telemetry, debugging, reliability, incident response, recovery, and performance improvement.
• User-centered practice: Experience working directly with users, designers, and product leaders to turn evidence into better product decisions.
• Engineering craft: A consistent record of clear specifications, maintainable code, thoughtful review, and sound technical trade-offs.
• This role requires up to 50% travel and flexibility to go into the office in a hybrid capacity.

Responsibilities

• Start with the user. Work directly with users and domain experts to understand real workflows, observe friction, and identify where AI can create distinctive value.
• Test assumptions quickly. Turn product hypotheses into concise specifications, prototypes, and small releases that generate useful evidence early.
• Own complete product slices. Build coherent verticals across the experience, services, data, AI behavior, and enterprise integrations rather than optimizing a single layer.
• Shape AI behavior. Design instructions, context, retrieval, structured outputs, and tool use, choosing adaptation or tuning only when evidence supports it.
• Build the evidence system. Create representative tasks and automated evaluations that show whether the product is useful, correct, safe, accessible, and improving.
• Connect outcomes to behavior. Instrument user journeys so the team can relate adoption and task success to system behavior, latency, failures, and cost.
• Engineer for responsible use. Build clear permission boundaries, secure data handling, human checkpoints, graceful degradation, recovery, and rollback into the experience.
• Own production quality. Release incrementally, monitor live behavior, respond to incidents, and turn failures into durable product and engineering improvements.
• Make practical trade-offs. Balance experience, quality, speed, reliability, and cost, using deterministic software when it is the more dependable choice.
• Contribute reusable patterns. Share proven components and evaluation assets with the broader platform while remaining accountable for their performance in the product workflow.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

AI application depth

Product judgment

Evaluation discipline

Production ownership

High-agency collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

EY is seeking an experienced engineer to join Challenger, EY’s program focused on next-generation services powered by AI. You will be close to users, translate conversations into prototypes, and drive ideas through to secure services and production code.

The role emphasizes ownership, testing, and delivering durable software in a fast-paced product cycle. You’ll navigate from user conversations to working prototypes and from prototypes to production systems, balancing speed with accessibility,