Senior AI Forward Engineer: Enterprise Systems Leader

EY; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Paid time off (vacations)

Hybrid work model

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead the delivery of AI-native systems into highly regulated industries. This role sits at the intersection of real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback, ensuring AI systems move from concept to production with speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor.

As part of the Advanced Forward Engineering team, you will collaborate with Product Engineering, Product Architecture, and governance authorities to translate field

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems in regulated industries.
• Distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on with AI-enabled stacks (agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, LLM-backed services).
• Strong client-facing engineering experience with real-world constraints.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a 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.
• 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

Software Engineering

Systems Design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Education

BSc/MSc Computer Science

Job description

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead the delivery of AI-native systems into highly regulated industries. This role sits at the intersection of real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback, ensuring AI systems move from concept to production with speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor.

As part of the Advanced Forward Engineering team, you will collaborate with Product Engineering, Product Architecture, and governance authorities to translate field