Senior AI-Native Systems Engineer - Edge Delivery

EY; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plans

Generous paid time off

Job summary

EY’s Office of the CTO, Advanced Forward Engineering team embeds engineers with clients to deliver AI-native, auditable systems in regulated environments across tax, finance, and risk. You will own end-to-end delivery from problem framing to production deployment, balancing functionality, safety, and cost while collaborating with security, governance, and architecture teams.

We seek senior engineers who excel in ambiguous problems, produce production-grade code, and drive platform evolution

Qualifications

• 5+ years delivering complex software systems in enterprise or regulated environments.
• Experience in customer-facing or consulting engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying distributed systems, APIs, integrations, or data-intensive applications.
• Practical experience with modern AI application stacks (e.g., LLM-backed systems, agentic workflows, orchestration frameworks).
• Proven track record owning delivery in real-world conditions.
• Experience writing and maintaining production-grade code that operates under compliance, performance, and reliability constraints.
• Ability to work effectively with engineering, architecture, security, and governance teams.

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with client teams to frame problems and define delivery paths under regulatory constraints.
• Own end-to-end delivery outcomes for engagements from shaping to sustainment.
• Implement and manage AI-enabled workflows, agentic systems, and integrations using platform capabilities.
• Write and review production-quality code aligned with enterprise standards.
• Make real-time delivery tradeoffs balancing functionality, safety, cost, and timeline.
• Ensure solutions comply with security, AI integrity, and FinOps constraints.
• Capture and communicate field learnings and failure modes to improve platform evolution.
• Collaborate with integration, platform, and architecture teams to enable repeatable delivery patterns.

Skills

Ownership of problems

Client-facing

Distributed systems

AI stacks

Regulated environments

Cross-functional

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Python

LangGraph

APIs

Orchestration frameworks

Job description

EY’s Office of the CTO, Advanced Forward Engineering team embeds engineers with clients to deliver AI-native, auditable systems in regulated environments across tax, finance, and risk. You will own end-to-end delivery from problem framing to production deployment, balancing functionality, safety, and cost while collaborating with security, governance, and architecture teams.

We seek senior engineers who excel in ambiguous problems, produce production-grade code, and drive platform evolution