Senior AI Systems Architect - Advanced Forward Engineering

EY; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) plans

Job summary

EY seeks a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system deliveries into regulated industries, aligning architecture, safety, and audit-grade rigor with real-world client constraints.

The role spans cross-cell leadership, collaboration with Product Engineering and governance, and translating field realities into durable, reusable enterprise patterns for scalable impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems, ideally in regulated industries.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on experience 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 across engagements.
• Experience collaborating with architecture, product, and platform teams.
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycle, quality gates, and production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a cross-engagement technical authority, ensuring delivery adheres to architecture, safety, and constraints 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 and validation inputs.
• Operate as a player-coach, guiding delivery teams toward repeatable approaches.
• Consolidate cross-cell signals into evidence-based recommendations and platform investments.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package patterns into technical business cases and backlog candidates.
• 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 or related technical field

Tools

Agentic systems

Orchestration frameworks

LLM-backed services

Job description

EY seeks a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system deliveries into regulated industries, aligning architecture, safety, and audit-grade rigor with real-world client constraints.

The role spans cross-cell leadership, collaboration with Product Engineering and governance, and translating field realities into durable, reusable enterprise patterns for scalable impact.