Senior AI Architect & Team Lead

EY; Grand Rapids (MI); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards package

Hybrid work model

Paid time off options

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to head a team of domain experts in designing AI Agent Control. The role focuses on agent identity, authentication, post-training environments, and synthesis models, with hands-on development and leadership of a global engineering team.

Ideal candidates will have 10+ years in software engineering and AI, advanced engineering degrees, and experience with multi-agent systems, modern secrets management, and AI-native development tools.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to lead software architectural product functions and mentor junior engineers.
• Comfort working across cross-functional teams and managing competing priorities.
• Build and manage strong internal and external partnerships by fostering trust, empathy, and mutual value.
• Leverage emotional agility and hybrid collaboration to navigate diverse stakeholder needs and drive long-term engagement.
• Use critical thinking and creative reasoning to address complex problems and exceed expectations.
• Align cross-functional teams around shared goals, ensuring accountability and progress. Use emotional intelligence and hybrid collaboration to motivate others and deliver high-impact results.

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.

Job description

EY is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to head a team of domain experts in designing AI Agent Control. The role focuses on agent identity, authentication, post-training environments, and synthesis models, with hands-on development and leadership of a global engineering team.

Ideal candidates will have 10+ years in software engineering and AI, advanced engineering degrees, and experience with multi-agent systems, modern secrets management, and AI-native development tools.