Senior AI Forward Engineer – Enterprise Systems

EY; Memphis (TN); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation and benefits

Total Rewards package

Job summary

EY seeks a Senior Distinguished Engineer to lead delivery of AI-native systems into highly regulated industries. You will operate at the intersection of delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback, guiding cross-cell teams to move concepts to production with safety and audit-grade rigor.

You’ll work in a hybrid model across delivery, architecture, product, and governance, shaping reusable patterns and evidence-based recommendations while partnering with Product Engineering and

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on with modern AI-enabled stacks (agentic systems, orchestration, LLM-backed services).
• Forward-deployed or customer-facing roles owning outcomes under real-world constraints.
• Track record of reusable technical patterns or platforms.

Responsibilities

• Serve as cross-eng engagement technical authority ensuring delivery adheres to architecture, safety, and constraints.
• Synthesize learnings into durable reference integrations and reusable patterns.
• Collaborate with AI agents to support regulated safe-to-ship decisions with evidence inputs.
• Operate as player-coach contributing to design and guiding delivery teams.
• Consolidate cross-cell signals into evidence-based recommendations for platform improvements.
• Partner with Product Engineering/Architecture to package patterns into business cases and backlog items.
• Participate in shaping sessions, architecture reviews, and prioritization discussions.

Skills

AI/ML

Software Eng

Systems Design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS or related

Tools

LLM-backed services

Orchestration frameworks

Job description

EY seeks a Senior Distinguished Engineer to lead delivery of AI-native systems into highly regulated industries. You will operate at the intersection of delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback, guiding cross-cell teams to move concepts to production with safety and audit-grade rigor.

You’ll work in a hybrid model across delivery, architecture, product, and governance, shaping reusable patterns and evidence-based recommendations while partnering with Product Engineering and