Senior AI Forward Engineering Lead for Regulated Systems

EY; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 374,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Generous PTO

Total Rewards package

Job summary

EY in the United States seeks 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.

As a cross-cell technical leader, you’ll partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture, translate field realities

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems in regulated industries.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on with modern AI-enabled 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 adheres to architecture, safety, and economic constraints in regulated environments.
• Synthesize learnings into durable reference integrations, validated implementations, and reusable patterns reducing repeated failures.
• Work with AI agents to support regulated safe-to-ship decisions by contributing technical evidence and validation inputs.
• Operate as a player-coach, contributing to complex system design and guiding delivery teams toward repeatable approaches.
• Own consolidation and communication of cross-cell product signals, turning field observations into evidence-based recommendations.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package client patterns into technical business cases and backlog candidates.
• Participate in shaping sessions, architecture reviews, and prioritization discussions to improve portability and outcomes.

Skills

AI/ML systems

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Security

DevOps

Systems design

Regulated industries

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field

Job description

EY in the United States seeks 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.

As a cross-cell technical leader, you’ll partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture, translate field realities