Senior Cyber AI Engineer — Frontier AI in Security

EY; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Paid time off

Job summary

EY seeks a Cyber AI Engineer (Senior Consultant) to lead forward-deployed AI projects for cybersecurity. You will design, implement, and productionize AI workflows for threat investigation, detection, and remediation, collaborating with client teams and EY experts.

You will own technical deliverables, contribute to architecture and code reviews, and help build evaluation suites and playbooks for scalable deployments. A strong cloud/DevSecOps background is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field with 3–5 years hands-on software engineering and AI/ML solution deployment.
• Proficiency in Python, APIs, Git, automated testing, and production delivery.
• Experience deploying frontier AI models, building agents, and model tool integrations.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps, CI/CD, containerization, and secure AI deployment on cloud platforms.
• Understanding of prompt injection and safe tools usage with OWASP MITRE ATLAS awareness.
• Experience with client-facing delivery from requirements through deployment and handover.

Responsibilities

• Own technical deliverables and estimate tasks while guiding engagement leaders.
• Architect, pair program, review code, and troubleshoot integrations with clients and consultants.
• Collaborate with model providers and researchers to test capabilities and document deployment findings.
• Develop demonstrations, proposals, and reusable evaluation components for EY's Cyber AI practice.

Skills

Frontier AI models

LLMs and retrieval-augmented

Software engineering

Agentic architectures

Model integrations

Threat investigation automation

CI/CD

Cloud engineering

Security architecture

Client delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Python

APIs

Git

Automated testing

CI/CD

Containers

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

EY seeks a Cyber AI Engineer (Senior Consultant) to lead forward-deployed AI projects for cybersecurity. You will design, implement, and productionize AI workflows for threat investigation, detection, and remediation, collaborating with client teams and EY experts.

You will own technical deliverables, contribute to architecture and code reviews, and help build evaluation suites and playbooks for scalable deployments. A strong cloud/DevSecOps background is expected.