Senior AI Platform Architect & Delivery Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) plans

Paid time off

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery in regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. The role sits at the intersection of real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback to move AI systems from concept to production with speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor.

As a cross-cell technical leader, you will partner with Product Engineering and governance authorities while remaining anchored in delivery outcomes,

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems in regulated industries.
• Distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on with AI-enabled stacks (agentic systems, LLM-backed services).
• Experience in forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering roles, owning outcomes under real-world constraints.
• Proven ability to create reusable technical patterns or platforms that scale beyond a single engagement.
• Collaboration with architecture, product, and platform teams.
• Understanding software delivery lifecycle and production readiness in enterprise settings.

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.
• 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

Systems Design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science

Job description

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery in regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. The role sits at the intersection of real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback to move AI systems from concept to production with speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor.

As a cross-cell technical leader, you will partner with Product Engineering and governance authorities while remaining anchored in delivery outcomes,