Senior AI Architect & Team Leader

EY; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Job summary

EY in the United States is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to lead a team of domain architect experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control.

The role focuses on agent identity, authentication, post-training and tuning environments, and benchmarking; you will collaborate across AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure to deliver scalable solutions. EY offers a hybrid work model, competitive compensation, and comprehensive benefits.

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.
• Proficiency with AI native code tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Qodo/Codium, Gemini, AWS Q, GitHub).
• Familiarity with Python, Bash, Typescript, Go, Rust and Java.
• Understand AI Native design process and principles.
• Experience with cryptographic methods of identity and auth.
• Experience with IDEs, CI/CD pipelines and collaboration tools (GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps).
• Experience with Nvidia NVAIE, AWS and MSFT Azure AI stacks.

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.

Skills

AI software experience

Multi-agent systems

Secrets management

AI-native tools

Python

Go

Rust

Java

CI/CD tooling

Security/auth design

Education

Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics

Tools

NVIDIA NVAIE

AWS

Azure AI

GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps

Job description

EY in the United States is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to lead a team of domain architect experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control.

The role focuses on agent identity, authentication, post-training and tuning environments, and benchmarking; you will collaborate across AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure to deliver scalable solutions. EY offers a hybrid work model, competitive compensation, and comprehensive benefits.