Senior AI Engineering Leader for Regulated Systems

EY; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) plans

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery in regulated industries, bridging delivery, architecture enforcement, and governance. You will drive cross-cell patterns, evidence-based decisions, and client-focused outcomes while advancing enterprise-scale platforms.

You’ll influence architecture, product engineering, and governance, ensuring portable, auditable solutions with strong client presence and systems thinking.

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems in regulated industries.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on with modern AI-enabled stacks (agentic systems, orchestration, LLM-backed services).
• Proven ability to operate in forward-deployed or customer-facing roles.

Responsibilities

• Serve as cross-eng engagement technical authority matching architecture intent with delivery.
• Synthesize learnings into durable reference integrations and reusable patterns.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering and Architecture to package client patterns as business cases.
• Guide delivery teams toward repeatable, auditable approaches under constraints.
• Support regulated safe-to-ship decisions with technical evidence and validation inputs.
• Participate in architecture reviews, shaping sessions, and prioritization discussions.

Skills

AI/ML

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Software engineering

Systems design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/related field

Tools

Kubernetes

LLM-backed services

Orchestration frameworks

Job description

EY is seeking a senior Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery in regulated industries, bridging delivery, architecture enforcement, and governance. You will drive cross-cell patterns, evidence-based decisions, and client-focused outcomes while advancing enterprise-scale platforms.

You’ll influence architecture, product engineering, and governance, ensuring portable, auditable solutions with strong client presence and systems thinking.