Senior AI Systems Architect for Regulated Environments

EY; Detroit (MI); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation and benefits

Flexible vacation policy

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system deliveries in regulated industries. The role blends architecture enforcement with real-world delivery, partnering with product and governance teams to build durable enterprise patterns.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years delivering AI enterprise systems, deep distributed-systems experience, and hands-on work with AI-enabled stacks. EY offers a hybrid model and strong total rewards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience delivering complex AI enterprise systems.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI-enabled application stacks (agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, LLM-backed services).
• Proven ability to operate in forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering roles, owning outcomes under real-world constraints.
• Track record of creating reusable technical patterns or platforms that scale beyond a single engagement.
• Experience collaborating with architecture, product, and platform teams.

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 and reusable patterns.
• Work with AI agents to support regulated safe-to-ship decisions by contributing technical evidence and validation inputs.
• Operate as a player-coach, contributing to complex system design and guiding delivery teams toward repeatable approaches.
• Own consolidation and communication of cross-cell product signals into evidence-based recommendations.

Skills

AI/ML

Software Engineering

Systems Design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Observability tools

AI governance frameworks

Job description

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system deliveries in regulated industries. The role blends architecture enforcement with real-world delivery, partnering with product and governance teams to build durable enterprise patterns.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years delivering AI enterprise systems, deep distributed-systems experience, and hands-on work with AI-enabled stacks. EY offers a hybrid model and strong total rewards.