Advanced Forward Engineering - Implementation Engineer - Senior
Ernst and Young1 month ago
Base Salary
$107k - $201k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed directly with client teams to identify opportunities, frame problems, and define delivery paths.
- Own end-to-end engagement outcomes from solution shaping through implementation, deployment, and early sustainment.
- Implement and manage AI-enabled workflows, agentic systems, orchestration logic, and integrations.
- Write and review production-quality code, including LangGraph and Python orchestration and integration layers.
- Make delivery tradeoffs across functionality, safety, cost, and timelines and explain decisions to stakeholders.
- Ensure solutions meet security, AI integrity, FinOps, compliance, performance, and reliability requirements.
- Capture field learnings, edge cases, and failure modes to improve platform evolution and repeatable delivery patterns.
- Collaborate with integration, platform, architecture, security, and governance teams.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience delivering complex software systems in enterprise or regulated environments.
- Experience in customer-facing or consulting engineering roles.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying distributed systems, APIs, integrations, or data-intensive applications.
- Practical experience with modern AI application stacks, including LLM-backed systems, agentic workflows, or orchestration frameworks.
- Proven ownership of delivery in real-world conditions and production-grade software operating under compliance, performance, and reliability constraints.
- Ability to work effectively with engineering, architecture, security, and governance teams.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is preferred.
- Experience in forward-deployed engineering, regulated industries, AI safety, cost controls, governance, platform integration, reference implementations, or system hardening is preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary ranges from $106,900 to $176,500 in most US locations and from $128,400 to $200,600 in New York City Metro Area, Washington State, and California excluding Sacramento.
- Medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, paid holidays, winter and summer breaks, personal and family care leave, and other leave options.
- Hybrid, team-led work model with most external client-serving employees expected to work in person 40–60% of the time during an engagement, project, or year.
- Flexible vacation policy based on personal circumstances.
- 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.