The AI Automation Senior Engineer at EY will play a crucial role in helping clients navigate the complexities of AI, data, and analytics. This position focuses on designing, building, and operating AI and automation capabilities to assess large legacy application portfolios efficiently. The engineer will work closely with Application Modernization Engineers to validate automated findings and continuously improve accuracy. This high-growth role offers opportunities to enhance skills and contribute to meaningful change in government and infrastructure.

• Must have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, computer engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.
• 3-6+ years of software, data or ML engineering experience, including architecting and delivering production AI/ML systems.
• Experience leading teams of five or more engineers and client-facing delivery in federal or regulated environments.
• Must be comfortable working in-person as needed in the Washington, DC area.

• Build and operate automated ingestion pipelines for source code repositories and technical documentation.
• Develop static-analysis and LLM-assisted extraction to identify application components and dependencies.
• Implement retrieval-augmented generation and hybrid search over portfolio evidence for client stakeholders.
• Load extracted entities into graph and relational data stores to support dependency analysis.
• Design human-in-the-loop review points and maintain end-to-end traceability of AI-supported findings.
• Produce technical documentation and knowledge-transfer materials for the capabilities built.
• Own the design and delivery of one or more pipeline components or AI capabilities end to end.
• Review the code and evaluation results of staff engineers and coach them on AI engineering practices.

• Ernst & Young (EY) offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support the well-being of its employees across various dimensions.