Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EY is a globally connected professional services organization focused on building a better working world through assurance, consulting, tax, strategy, transactions, data, AI, and advanced technology. EY is seeking an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to lead experts in designing and implementing universal AI agent control harnesses, including multi-agent systems, identity, authentication, observability, authorization, post-training environments, and advanced agentic capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design of control harness intelligence systems including multiagent systems and associated tools and scaffolding
- Design architectures for agent identity and authentication in large scale multi-agent enterprise systems
- Design of post training and tuning/customization environments
- Design of synthesis models for AI open-source models
- Implement and test these architectures benchmarking performance against agent and human designed evals
- Design comprehensive AI Agent control frameworks
- Drive agent design requirements and implement through AI Native design process
- Assess through primary and secondary research emerging agent authorization architectures and frontier model proposals
- Collaborate with other architectural experts in AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure to insure balanced and practical outcomes
- Support strategic business development activities for emerging technology as required
- Present at academic conferences and support development of IP filings
- Hands on development of the advanced AI capabilities in agentic control
- Lead a team of experts in building a universal agentic control harnesses
Skills
- • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- • Ability to lead software architectural product functions and mentor junior engineers
- • Comfort working across cross-functional teams and managing competing priorities
- • Build and manage strong internal and external partnerships by fostering trust, empathy, and mutual value
- • Leverage emotional agility and hybrid collaboration to navigate diverse stakeholder needs and drive long-term engagement
- • Use critical thinking and creative reasoning to address complex problems and exceed expectations
- • Align cross-functional teams around shared goals, ensuring accountability and progress. Use emotional intelligence and hybrid collaboration to motivate others and deliver high-impact results
- • Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics
- • 10+ years of experience in software engineering and AI
- • Experience working with multi-agent system administration and modern secrets management
- • Use of AI native software development tools / code assist (Cursor, Claude Code, Qodo/Codium, Gemini, AWS Q, GitHub)
- • Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Bash, Typescript etc….) and software languages (Go, Rust, Java etc…)
- • Understand AI Native design process and principles
- • Experience with cryptographic methods of identity and auth
- • Experience with modern software IDE, CI/CD pipeline, modern code hosting and collaboration (Github/Gitlab/Azure DevOps etc…)
- • Experience with Nvidia NVAIE, AWS and MSFT Azure AI stacks
- • Experience with large-scale cross functional software development projects
- • Excellent communication and leadership abilities
Benefits
- Medical and dental coverage
- Pension and 401(k) plans
- A wide range of paid time off options
- Hybrid model, with most people in external, client serving roles expected to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year
- Flexible vacation policy
- Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support physical, financial, and emotional well-being
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