Financial Services - Forward Deployed Engineer - Technology Consulting - Senior - NYC
Ernst and Young1 day ago
Base Salary
$135k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support production-grade AI/ML, generative AI, intelligent automation, LLM, RAG, and agentic solutions.
- Translate business and user requirements into technical designs, APIs, workflows, integration patterns, and implementation plans.
- Build multi-agent systems, tool-use workflows, memory designs, reliable agent loops, and LLM evaluation frameworks.
- Debug and remediate production systems across retrieval, orchestration, generation, data, and integration layers.
- Contribute to architecture and design reviews, system integration, performance and resilience improvements, cost efficiency, documentation, estimation, status communication, and risk identification.
- Partner with Development, Engineering, Product, Data, Architecture, risk, legal, audit, and project leadership teams.
- Use AI-assisted software engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent agentic coding platforms.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of applied engineering experience, including meaningful experience in AI/ML engineering roles.
- Hands-on proficiency in Python and experience writing clean, modular, production-quality code for LLM pipelines and agentic applications.
- Experience designing and maintaining production-grade LLM applications, RAG systems, embedding and vector-search pipelines, prompt workflows, agentic systems, and LLM evaluation frameworks.
- Experience with structured and unstructured data preparation, quality validation, APIs, asynchronous workflows, enterprise integrations, containerization, and cloud deployment.
- Ability to explain complex AI system behavior and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including risk and compliance considerations.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Preferred or advantageous experience includes model observability, LLM fine-tuning, inference optimization, AI security, responsible AI, data pipelines, cloud AI platforms, AI-assisted development tools, and prior consulting experience.
- A master’s degree in business administration or science is preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary for New York City offices is $134,700 to $202,200 per year.
- Medical and dental coverage, pension, and 401(k) plans are provided.
- Benefits include flexible vacation, EY paid holidays, winter and summer breaks, personal and family care leave, and other leave options.
- The position is based in New York City and applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Ernst and Young
Ernst & Young (EY) provides audit/assurance, tax, consulting, strategy and transactions services to enterprises, financial institutions, and public‑sector clients. Structured as a global network of partner‑owned member firms, it sells professional services on a fee basis, including a dedicated Financial Services Organization for banking, insurance, and capital markets. Headquartered in London, EY was formed in 1989 from the merger of Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young, and operates in 150+ countries.