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Join EY and help to build a better working world.\nSDC AI Developer - Senior\nTheOpportunity\nSupports the delivery of solution or infrastructure development services for AI/ML initiatives, applying strong technical capability and hands-on engineering experience. Contributes to the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of AI-enabled solutions or infrastructure while aligning to relevant engineering standards and project delivery expectations. Understands user requirements and helps translate them into sound technical designs and implementation plans. 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few-shot, chain-of-thought, and structured output design, with the ability to systematically evaluate and iterate on prompt performance (e.g. DSPy, PromptFlow etc.).\nAgentic and LLM Ops:\nExperience designing and building agentic systems including multi-agent orchestration patterns, tool use, and memory design across single and multi-step workflows (e.g. LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, NVIDIA NIM etc.).\nAbility to debug, troubleshoot, and remediate production LLM and agentic systems including failure diagnosis across retrieval, orchestration, and generation layers.\nSoftware Engineering:\nHands-on software engineering proficiency in Python, with the ability to write clean, modular, production-quality code for LLM pipelines and agentic applications.\nExperience working with structured and unstructured data sets to support LLM application development, including data curation, preparation, and quality validation for model inputs and model responses.\nWorking familiarity with RESTful and event-driven API patterns including asynchronous workflows, service boundaries, and integration of enterprise data sources to expose LLM and agentic capabilities.\nPractical understanding of containerization and orchestration concepts for packaging and deploying LLM applications in cloud environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps, AWS ECS etc.).\nUnderstanding of software engineering best practices as applied to ML systems, including modular code design, testing patterns for AI pipelines, and data quality validation.\nFamiliarity with Data Monitoring and Data Observability in cloud environments (Open Telemetry, Azure Application Insights etc.).\nExposure to CI/CD and operationalization practices for AI systems, including model and workflow deployment, versioning, environment promotion, and release support in cloud or containerized environments.\nTo qualify for the role you must have\nA bachelor's or master’s degree\nMinimum of 2 years of related work experience applied engineering experience, including meaningful experience in AI/ML engineering roles\nClear communicator able to explain complex AI system behavior and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including risk and compliance.\nStrong ownership and accountability, taking responsibility for AI systems from design through production and issue resolution.\nAble to operate effectively as requirements, regulations, and technologies evolve.\nCollaborative and cross-functional, working closely with engineering, product, teams.\nIdeally, you’ll also have\nPartner with Development, Engineering, Product, Data, Architecture, and project leadership teams to deliver high-value AI capabilities.\nAbility to build and maintain model observability pipelines including tracing of multi-step agentic reasoning chains, output degradation detection, and behavioral drift monitoring in production (e.g. LangSmith, Arize, Datadog, Azure Monitor etc.).\nFamiliarity with LLM fine-tuning approaches including instruction tuning and preference optimization, with an understanding of when fine-tuning is appropriate versus prompt-based solutions (e.g. LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, NeMo Framework etc.).\nFamiliarity with responsible AI principles including bias and fairness evaluation, human-in-the-loop design, and explainability approaches in the financial services contexts.\nFamiliarity with data pipeline design for AI workloads including ingestion, transformation, and quality validation.\nFamiliarity with cloud-based platforms for building, training, and deploying scalable LLM solutions (e.g. Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, Google Vertex AI etc.).\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted software engineering tools for accelerating development, implementation, and code review practices (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex etc.).\nStrong grounding in traditional AI/ML and deep learning fundamentals, including supervised and unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model evaluation, neural network architectures, and training trade-offs, with the ability to apply these concepts when shaping enterprise AI solutions.\nWhat we offer you\nAt EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.\nWe offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $65,500 to $134,000. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $78,600 to $152,100. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.\nJoin us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.\nUnder our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.\nAre you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.\nEY accepts applications for this position on an on-going basis.\nFor those living in California, please click here for additional information.\nEY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.\nEY | Building a better working world\nEY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.\nEnabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.\nEY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. 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