Senior AI Forward Engineer for Regulated Enterprise Systems

EY; Southfield (MI); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work expectations

Competitive compensation package

Total rewards including medical and a

Job summary

EY seeks a senior Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery in highly regulated industries. You will bridge real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback, driving fast, safe, auditable production deployments.

As a cross-cell technical leader, you will collaborate with Product Engineering, Governance, and client teams, shaping reusable patterns and evidence-based recommendations while guiding delivery outcomes with a hands-on approach.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience delivering complex AI enterprise systems
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures
• Hands-on experience with modern AI-enabled application stacks (agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, LLM-backed services)
• Proven ability to operate in forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering roles, owning outcomes under real-world constraints
• Track record of creating reusable technical patterns or platforms that scale beyond a single engagement
• Experience collaborating closely with architecture, product, and platform teams
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycle, quality gates, and production readiness in enterprise settings

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
• 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

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Orchestration frameworks

LLM-backed services

Observability tools

Job description

EY seeks a senior Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery in highly regulated industries. You will bridge real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback, driving fast, safe, auditable production deployments.

As a cross-cell technical leader, you will collaborate with Product Engineering, Governance, and client teams, shaping reusable patterns and evidence-based recommendations while guiding delivery outcomes with a hands-on approach.