Senior AI Architect & Team Lead - Drive Agent Control

EY; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation and benefits

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) and pension plans

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to head a team of domain experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control. The role focuses on agent authentication, observability, and scalable AI solutions within a fast-paced environment, with responsibilities spanning research, architecture, and hands-on development.

The successful candidate will lead multiagent system design, collaborate across AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure, and contribute to IP filings while supporting

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design control harness intelligence systems including multiagent platforms and tooling.
• Design architectures for agent identity and authentication in large-scale multi-agent enterprise systems.
• Design post training and tuning environments.
• Design synthesis models for AI open-source models.
• Implement and test architectures, benchmarking performance.
• Design comprehensive AI Agent control frameworks.
• Drive agent design requirements via AI Native design process.
• Assess emerging agent authorization architectures and frontier model proposals.
• Collaborate with AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure for 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

AI software development

Multi-agent systems

Secrets management

CI/CD tooling

Cloud AI stacks

Python

Bash

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Java

AI Native design

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 is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to head a team of domain experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control. The role focuses on agent authentication, observability, and scalable AI solutions within a fast-paced environment, with responsibilities spanning research, architecture, and hands-on development.

The successful candidate will lead multiagent system design, collaborate across AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure, and contribute to IP filings while supporting