Senior AI Architect & Lead — Scalable Agent Control

EY; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 374,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401(k)

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to head a team of domain architect experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control. The role demands building universal agentic control harnesses and leading post-training environments, with emphasis on authentication, observability, and scalable AI solutions.

Join EY to shape future AI capabilities across diverse teams, delivering innovative architectures and collaborating across AI, Security, Data, and Infrastructure divisions.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics.
• 10+ years in software engineering and AI.
• Experience with multi-agent system administration and secrets management.
• Experience with AI native development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Qodo/Codium, Gemini, AWS Q, GitHub).
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Bash, TypeScript) and languages (Go, Rust, Java).
• Understand AI Native design process and principles.
• Experience with cryptographic methods of identity and auth.
• Experience with IDEs, CI/CD, and code hosting (GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps).
• Experience with Nvidia NVAIE, AWS and Microsoft Azure AI stacks.

Responsibilities

• Design of control harness intelligence systems including multiagent systems and tooling.
• Design architectures for agent identity and authentication in large-scale systems.
• Design of post training and tuning/customization environments.
• Design of synthesis models for AI open-source models.
• Implement and test architectures benchmarking performance against evals.
• Design comprehensive AI Agent control frameworks.
• Drive agent design requirements through AI Native design process.
• Assess emerging agent authorization architectures and frontier model proposals.
• Collaborate with AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure experts for practical outcomes.
• Support strategic business development for emerging tech.

Skills

AI/ML experience

Multi-agent systems

Secrets management

AI native tools

Scripting languages

Go/Rust/Java

AI Native design

Identity/auth cryptography

CI/CD & code hosting

NVIDIA/AWS/Azure AI stacks

Education

Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics

Tools

Cursor/Claude Code

Qodo/Codium

Gemini

AWS Q

GitHub

Job description

EY is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to head a team of domain architect experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control. The role demands building universal agentic control harnesses and leading post-training environments, with emphasis on authentication, observability, and scalable AI solutions.

Join EY to shape future AI capabilities across diverse teams, delivering innovative architectures and collaborating across AI, Security, Data, and Infrastructure divisions.