Senior AI Forward Engineer — Regulated Enterprise Delivery

EY; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total Rewards package

Flexible vacation policy

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead the delivery of AI-native systems into regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. 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.

You'll work as a cross-cell technical leader with Product Engineering and governance authorities, translating field reality into durable,

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems, ideally in regulated industries.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI-enabled application stacks (e.g., 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 adheres to architecture intent, safety, and constraints.
• Synthesize learnings into durable reference integrations and reusable patterns.
• Work with AI agents to support regulated safe-to-ship decisions with technical evidence.
• Operate as a player-coach, contributing to complex system design and guiding delivery teams.
• Consolidate cross-cell signals into evidence-based recommendations for platform investments.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package patterns into technical business cases.
• Participate in architecture reviews and prioritization discussions to improve portability and outcomes.

Skills

AI/ML

Distributed Systems

Cloud Platforms

Security

Data

Networking

DevOps

Systems Design

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Agentic systems

Orchestration frameworks

LLM-backed services

Job description

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead the delivery of AI-native systems into regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. 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.

You'll work as a cross-cell technical leader with Product Engineering and governance authorities, translating field reality into durable,