The AI Automation Engineer - Manager at EY will lead a team focused on designing, building, and operating AI and automation capabilities to enhance the assessment of legacy application portfolios. This role involves converting raw technical data into structured intelligence that informs modernization decisions for government clients. The position requires collaboration with Application Modernization Engineers to ensure accuracy and continuous improvement of automated findings. The successful candidate will also be responsible for establishing responsible-AI governance and serving as the primary technical contact with clients.

• 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.
• 6–10+ 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 queries.
• 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.
• Lead the AI & Automation team, managing delivery against milestones and removing blockers.
• Own the architecture of the automated assessment platform, ensuring security and scalability.
• Establish responsible-AI governance aligned with federal AI guidance and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact with clients on AI methods and present results.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers as the program scales.

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