Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer - Production Systems

EY; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

EY Consulting seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to build AI systems across software, cloud, semiconductor, cybersecurity, and digital-platform sectors. You will work with client teams, write production code, and deliver AI systems that fit client environments, growing across engineering, AI fluency, sector knowledge, and leadership.

This role emphasizes value creation from engagements to reusable patterns.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied software engineering with AI/ML focus.
• Deep understanding of LLMs and generation delivery patterns.
• Experience building production-grade RAG systems with safety guards.
• Strong Python or Java, cloud experience with Azure, AWS or GCP, and CI/CD.
• Willingness to work on client sites and travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

• Work with client teams to understand requirements and translate them into AI solutions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support production-grade generative AI, RAG, and agentic solutions.
• Solve complex technical problems through coding, debugging, testing, and structured design remediation.
• Translate business requirements into technical designs, APIs, workflows, and user stories.
• Contribute to system design across service boundaries and data flows.
• Add evaluation, monitoring, and safety checks to the solutions you build.
• Support delivery through estimation, documentation, status communication, and risk identification.
• Contribute reusable code and demonstrations to proposals and practice.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools as part of day-to-day delivery.

Skills

Python/Java

LLM engineering

RAG systems

Prompt engineering

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Client collaboration

GitHub

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

LangGraph

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

Job description

EY Consulting seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to build AI systems across software, cloud, semiconductor, cybersecurity, and digital-platform sectors. You will work with client teams, write production code, and deliver AI systems that fit client environments, growing across engineering, AI fluency, sector knowledge, and leadership.

This role emphasizes value creation from engagements to reusable patterns.