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**Senior Advanced Forward Engineering - Implementation Engineer** Design, build, and deliver AI-native systems within regulated client environments. Embed directly with clients, framing problems, shaping delivery paths, and taking end-to-end delivery ownership. Write production-quality code (LangGraph, Python, orchestration glue) and collaborate cross-functionally. Key responsibilities include problem-solving, balancing tradeoffs, ensuring compliance, managing AI-enabled workflows, and driving business impact. Requires 5+ years in delivering complex software systems, building and deploying distributed systems, and experience with modern AI application stacks.
- Compensation
- $106,900 – $200,600 USD
- City
- Not specified
- Country
- United States
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Full Job Description
Location: Anywhere in Country
At EY, were all in to shape your future with confidence.
Well help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.
The opportunity
In EYs Office of the CTO, the Advanced Forward Engineering (AFE) team is comprised of cells of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) that are embedded with our strategic customers to ensure the best possible customer experience in using EYs products.
We are seeking senior engineers for this team to design, build, and deliver AInative systems directly into highly regulated client environments such as tax, finance, and risk. This role combines endtoend delivery ownership with handson engineering execution, serving as the primary technical and outcomes authority for forwarddeployed client engagements.
Unlike traditional engineering or architecture roles, the AFE teams operate at the edge of the enterprise, embedding with clients, navigating realworld constraints, and ensuring AI solutions are not only technically sound, but deployable, auditable, and trusted in production. This role is ideal for a seasoned engineer who excels at owning ambiguous problems, making pragmatic tradeoffs, and turning platform capabilities into real business impact.
AFE engineers are responsible for both shaping the solution and writing productionquality code, while collaborating closely with platform, architecture, security, and governance partners.
Your key responsibilities
- Embed directly with client teams to frame problems, identify highleverage opportunities, and define delivery paths under regulatory and operational constraints.
- Own endtoend delivery outcomes for engagements, from initial shaping through implementation, deployment, and early sustainment.
- Implement and manage AIenabled workflows, agentic systems, orchestration logic, and integrations using approved platform capabilities and delivery templates.
- Write and review productionquality code (e.g., LangGraph, Python, orchestration glue, integration layers) aligned with enterprise delivery standards.
- Make realtime delivery tradeoffs balancing functionality, safety, cost, and timeline, and clearly explain those decisions to stakeholders.
- Ensure solutions comply with security, AI integrity, and FinOps constraints, working with control authorities to achieve safetoship approval.
- Capture and communicate field learnings, edge cases, and failure modes, contributing evidencebased feedback that improves platform evolution.
- Collaborate with integration, platform, and architecture teams to reduce rework and enable repeatable delivery patterns.
Skills and attributes for success
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and drive them to successful outcomes.
- Strong engineering fundamentals combined with pragmatic systems thinking in AInative environments.
- Experience in operating directly with clients and business stakeholders while remaining deeply technical.
- Capable of balancing handson execution with shaping, explanation, and mentoring.
- Calm judgment under pressure; able to make defensible tradeoffs in regulated settings.
- Clear communicator who can translate technical details into businessrelevant outcomes.
- Bias toward reliability, repeatability, and trust over experimental novelty in production contexts.
- Curiosity and adaptability in rapidly evolving AI tooling and delivery practices.
To qualify you must have
- 5+ years of experience delivering complex software systems in enterprise or regulated environments.
- Experience in customerfacing or consulting engineering roles.
- Handson experience building and deploying distributed systems, APIs, integrations, or dataintensive applications.
- Practical experience with modern AI application stacks (e.g., LLMbacked systems, agentic workflows, orchestration frameworks).
- Proven track record owning delivery in realworld conditions.
- Experience writing and maintaining productiongrade code that operates under compliance, performance, and reliability constraints.
- Ability to work effectively with engineering, architecture, security, and governance teams.
Ideally, you'll also have
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Experience in forwarddeployed engineering roles.
- Familiarity with AI safety, cost controls, or governance considerations in production systems.
- Exposure to platform integration, reference implementation development, or system hardening.
- Experience delivering solutions in regulated industries (financial services, tax, healthcare, risk).
What we offer you
At EY, well develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. Well empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.
- We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where youll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $106,900 to $176,500. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $128,400 to $200,600. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
- Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
- Under our flexible vacation policy, youll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. Youll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.
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