UKI Technology Consulting - AI & Data - Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Manager
Ernst and Young27 days ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with clients to translate ambiguous business problems into scoped AI use cases, MVPs, data requirements, and evaluation criteria.
- Prototype and productionize solutions using LLMs, RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, agents, and traditional machine learning models.
- Design AI architectures covering data ingestion, feature pipelines, embeddings, vector stores, model selection, tuning, and evaluation.
- Develop prompt designs, guardrails, system instructions, and approaches for mitigating hallucinations and prompt failures.
- Integrate AI components with client APIs, data warehouses, SaaS platforms, and legacy systems.
- Deploy and optimize AI solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises client infrastructure for latency, cost, reliability, and scalability.
- Implement monitoring for model performance, drift, regressions, telemetry, and safety issues.
- Provide technical training and knowledge transfer to client teams and capture reusable patterns, architectures, and accelerators.
- Contribute to internal playbooks, reference implementations, and lessons learned across engagements.
- Lead multidisciplinary engineering, data science, architecture, product, and design teams through complex delivery cycles.
- Support pre-sales through technical credibility, demonstrations, and solution development.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of AI/ML engineering experience in a manager-level capacity.
- Strong data structures, algorithms, system design, and production Python experience.
- Deep applied AI/ML expertise across NLP, transformers, generative models, reinforcement learning, classical machine learning, and statistical modeling.
- Advanced LLM and RAG engineering experience, including prompt pipelines, embeddings, vector stores, hybrid retrieval, grounding, hallucination mitigation, and evaluation frameworks.
- Experience with LLMOps/MLOps, automated testing, drift monitoring, safety and guardrails, ML CI/CD, telemetry, lineage, and governance.
- At least 5 years of experience with cloud platforms and modern data infrastructure, with Azure preferred and GCP or AWS accepted.
- Experience with containerization and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience working with clients in technical consulting, solutions engineering, or product engineering roles.
- Familiarity with enterprise security, compliance, and governance requirements including SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams through complex delivery cycles.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning models and significant management experience in consulting or industry.
- Preferred experience building and deploying AI agents or autonomous systems in production.
- Preferred experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or FastAPI.
- Preferred experience in forward deployed, field engineering, or technical account management roles.
- Domain expertise in finance, healthcare, government, or manufacturing is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time permanent position based in Dublin with hybrid working and flexible working arrangements.
- Competitive remuneration package and flexible benefits selection through FlexEY.
- Pension, discounted health insurance, free unlimited online GP consultations, and wellness rooms at some offices.
- Additional annual leave purchase, maternity and paternity leave, free gym membership, travel pass, and bike-to-work scheme.
- Recognition awards, cash incentives for referrals, and a work mobile.
- Tech MBA paid by EY and opportunities for coaching, continuous learning, skills development, and career progression.
- Client-facing professionals may be required to travel regularly and work at client sites.
- Inclusive employer offering reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
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.