Senior AI Platform Engineer — Regulated Enterprise Systems

EY; Huntsville (AL); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 374,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total Rewards package: medical/dental,

Pension and 401(k), generous PTO

Job summary

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

The Distinguished Engineer will operate across delivery cells, partnering with Product Engineering and governance authorities, while remaining anchored in delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience 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, LLM-backed services).
• Proven ability to operate in forward-deployed or customer-facing roles, owning outcomes under real-world constraints.
• Track record of reusable technical patterns or platforms that scale beyond a single engagement.
• Experience collaborating with architecture, product, and platform teams.
• 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 and safety in regulated environments.
• Synthesize learnings into durable reference integrations and reusable patterns.
• Work with AI agents to support regulated safe-to-ship decisions with evidence inputs.
• Operate as a player-coach contributing to system design while guiding delivery teams.
• Consolidate and prioritize cross-cell signals into evidence-based recommendations.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package client patterns into technical business cases.
• Participate in shaping sessions, architecture reviews, and prioritization discussions.

Skills

AI/ML

Software Engineering

Systems Design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Agentic systems

Orchestration frameworks

LLM-backed services

Job description

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

The Distinguished Engineer will operate across delivery cells, partnering with Product Engineering and governance authorities, while remaining anchored in delivery outcomes.