Senior AI Engineer for Enterprise, Regulated Systems

EY; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 374,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total Rewards package

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

EY in the United States is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead delivery of AI-native systems into regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. This role sits at the intersection of delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback.

You will work with Forward Deployed Engineers and cross-cell leaders, translating field realities into durable patterns while ensuring speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor.

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems.
• Experience with regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Serve as cross-engagement technical authority ensuring delivery implementations adhere to architecture intent, safety, and economic constraints in regulated environments.
• Synthesize learnings from multiple delivery cells into durable reference integrations, validated implementations, and reusable patterns that reduce repeated failure modes.
• Work with AI agents to support regulated safe-to-ship decisions by contributing technical evidence and validation inputs.
• Operate as a player‑coach, contributing directly to complex system design and implementation while guiding delivery teams toward consistent, repeatable approaches.
• Own the consolidation, prioritization, and communication of cross‑cell product signals, converting field observations and client‑specific adaptations into evidence-based recommendations, distinguishing them from isolated customer requests.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package consolidated client patterns into technical business cases, backlog candidates, and platform investment recommendations.
• Participate in shaping sessions, architecture reviews, and prioritization discussions, advocating changes that improve portability, operability, and customer outcomes.

Skills

AI/ML

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

System design

Security

Data engineering

DevOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Job description

EY in the United States is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead delivery of AI-native systems into regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. This role sits at the intersection of delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback.

You will work with Forward Deployed Engineers and cross-cell leaders, translating field realities into durable patterns while ensuring speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor.