Senior AI-Native Implementation Engineer (Client-Embedded)

EY; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking senior engineers for its Advanced Forward Engineering team in the Office of the CTO. You will design, build, and deliver AI-native systems embedded with highly regulated client environments such as tax, finance, and risk.

This role combines hands-on coding with delivery ownership and acts as the technical authority for client engagements. As part of EY’s edge-delivery model, you will collaborate with platform, architecture, security, and governance partners to ensure the solutions

Qualifications

• 5+ years delivering complex software systems in enterprise or regulated environments.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying distributed systems, APIs, integrations, or data-intensive apps.
• Practical experience with modern AI stacks (LLM-backed systems, agentic workflows, orchestration frameworks).

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with client teams to frame problems, identify high-leverage opportunities, and define delivery paths under regulatory and operational constraints.
• Own end-to-end delivery outcomes for engagements, from initial shaping through implementation, deployment, and early sustainment.
• Implement and manage AI-enabled workflows, agentic systems, orchestration logic, and integrations using approved platform capabilities and delivery templates.
• Write and review production-quality code (e.g., LangGraph, Python, orchestration glue, integration layers) aligned with enterprise delivery standards.
• Make real-time delivery tradeoffs balancing functionality, safety, cost, and timeline, and clearly explain those decisions to stakeholders.
• Ensure solutions comply with security, AI integrity, and FinOps constraints, working with control authorities to achieve safe-to-ship approval.
• Capture and communicate field learnings, edge cases, and failure modes, contributing evidence-based feedback that improves platform evolution.
• Collaborate with integration, platform, and architecture teams to reduce rework and enable repeatable delivery patterns.

Skills

Client-facing

Distributed systems

AI stacks

End-to-end delivery

Regulated environments

Production-grade code

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related

Job description

EY is seeking senior engineers for its Advanced Forward Engineering team in the Office of the CTO. You will design, build, and deliver AI-native systems embedded with highly regulated client environments such as tax, finance, and risk.

This role combines hands-on coding with delivery ownership and acts as the technical authority for client engagements. As part of EY’s edge-delivery model, you will collaborate with platform, architecture, security, and governance partners to ensure the solutions