Senior AI Forward Engineering Architect

EY; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total Rewards package (medical, dental

Generous paid time off

Job summary

EY seeks a senior Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native systems in regulated industries, delivering production-grade solutions with safety, auditability, and governance in mind.

The role sits at the intersection of delivery, architecture enforcement, and enterprise platform evolution, partnering with Product Engineering and governance authorities to translate field realities into reusable patterns across client engagements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience 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.

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, distinguishing them from isolated customer requests.
• 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

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Systems Design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Client-facing

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Job description

EY seeks a senior Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native systems in regulated industries, delivering production-grade solutions with safety, auditability, and governance in mind.

The role sits at the intersection of delivery, architecture enforcement, and enterprise platform evolution, partnering with Product Engineering and governance authorities to translate field realities into reusable patterns across client engagements.