Senior Manager, Forward‑Deployed AI Engineering

EY; Boca Raton (FL); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer Senior Manager to join a diverse, interdisciplinary team delivering AI-driven solutions for clients across industries. You will translate AI strategies into scalable, production-ready implementations and lead client engagements from discovery to deployment, guiding cross-functional teams to achieve measurable outcomes.

You’ll work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with data scientists, cloud engineers, and DevOps to deploy responsible AI, monitor

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or MS in Business, Economics, Tech Entrepreneurship, CS, Informatics, Statistics, Applied Math, Data Science, or ML.
• 8–10+ years of professional consulting experience.
• 3–5+ years of experience directly managing technical or consulting teams.
• Experience deploying foundation models, generative AI, and agentic AI frameworks.
• Experience with ML packages such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, or ONNX.
• Experience using DevOps tools like GIT, Azure DevOps and Jira.
• Solid understanding of ML workflows from data ingestion to evaluation.
• Experience with MLOps, LLMOps, AgentOps platforms such as MLFlow.
• Strong Python skills.
• Experience with CI/CD and TDD.
• Experience building end-to-end ML workflows on major cloud platforms.
• Understanding of data structures, modelling and software engineering best practices.
• Proficiency with SQL, Pandas, Spark.
• Ability to communicate findings to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with containerization and scaling models.
• Willingness to travel to meet client obligations.
• Strong knowledge of AI, Responsible AI, evaluation methods.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated leadership and project management to lead multidisciplinary teams.
• Team player.

Responsibilities

• Lead lean, client-embedded engineering teams to diagnose opportunities, shape, engineer, operationalize, and scale AI strategy.
• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, cloud engineers, MLOps, platform engineers, and DevOps to implement solutions.
• Lead opportunity qualification, demonstrations, proposals, and delivery economics for forward-deployed AI work.
• Establish evaluation, observability, security, Responsible AI, incident-response, and cost-management standards for production agentic systems.
• Develop reusable engineering patterns and accelerators for broader deployment.
• Stay updated on AI technology trends and advise on AI-tools and platforms that fit client needs.
• Understand clients’ data/AI landscape, priorities, and success measures.
• Work in a hybrid model (on-site and remote) with strong client engagement.
• Foster client relationships, deliver value, and identify adjacent opportunities for broader support.

Skills

Python

Leadership

Communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Team collaboration

CI/CD

Agile

Project management

Team player

Education

Bachelor’s or MS in relevant field

Master’s degree in CS/Quant field

Tools

OpenAI family / LLMs

DALL·E

LangChain

RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)

scikit-learn

PyTorch

ONNX

Git

Azure DevOps

Jira

MLFlow

Containerization / Docker

Job description

EY is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer Senior Manager to join a diverse, interdisciplinary team delivering AI-driven solutions for clients across industries. You will translate AI strategies into scalable, production-ready implementations and lead client engagements from discovery to deployment, guiding cross-functional teams to achieve measurable outcomes.

You’ll work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with data scientists, cloud engineers, and DevOps to deploy responsible AI, monitor