About this role
<div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:1.0em"> <p>At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. </p> <p>We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. </p> <p>Join EY and help to build a better working world. </p> </div> <div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:1.0em"> </div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Job Title: Sr. Agentic AI Engineer</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Job Description</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Cybersecurity is seeking a <strong>Sr. Agentic AI Engineer</strong> to join the Cyber Analytics and Data Science team. This role focuses on designing, building, and operationalizing <strong>agentic AI systems</strong>, multi-agent frameworks, and intelligent automation solutions that enhance our cybersecurity posture. The ideal candidate will leverage advanced machine learning, LLM engineering, reasoning systems, and data engineering to solve enterprise-scale problems and drive the next generation of autonomous cyber-analytics capabilities.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">You will be directly responsible for the <strong>architecture, development, deployment, and automation</strong> of agentic AI applications that support predictive, prescriptive, and autonomous cybersecurity operations. This role partners closely with key stakeholders across Cybersecurity, IT, and Data Engineering to accelerate the adoption of multi-agent systems, RAG-enhanced intelligence, and enterprise AI platforms.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">The Sr. Agentic AI Engineer is a hands-on technologist, creative problem solver, and trusted advisor who brings deep experience with emerging AI technologies and a passion for building scalable, production-grade autonomous systems.</span></p> <div align="center"> <p style="text-align:left"> </p> <p style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></span></p> </div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Agentic AI And Multi-Agent System Development</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Architect, design, and deploy <strong>agentic AI workflows</strong> using frameworks such as <strong>LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, and related orchestration libraries</strong>.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Build <strong>multi-agent systems</strong> capable of autonomous reasoning, planning, task delegation, and collaboration across cybersecurity functions.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Implement agent-to-agent coordination strategies, including shared memory, messaging, goal decomposition, and tool-use patterns.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Design and optimize <strong>Agent Development Kit (ADK)</strong>–based pipelines for secure, scalable agent deployment.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>RAG Systems And Knowledge Integration</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Develop <strong>Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)</strong> pipelines enabling agents to interact with real-time knowledge sources, logs, cybersecurity datasets, and enterprise APIs.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Optimize vector embeddings, indexing strategies, and memory structures for high-accuracy decision support.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Ensure grounded, auditable, and explainable outputs from LLM-based agents.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>LLM Engineering And Advanced Reasoning</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Fine-tune, prompt-engineer, and configure LLMs/SLMs for specialized cybersecurity and automation tasks.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Build reasoning, planning, and self-critique modules for agents to operate autonomously and safely.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Integrate external LLM APIs, embeddings, synthetic data, and custom model endpoints.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Enterprise Agentic AI Platform</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Lead the development of an enterprise-grade platform enabling orchestration of LLMs, RAG components, vector databases, and multi-agent protocols.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Standardize the use of <strong>Model Context Protocol (MCP)</strong> for consistent context-sharing, memory management, and interoperability across agents.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Build reusable agent templates, toolkits, and internal libraries to accelerate development across Cyber teams.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>MLOps, Observability And Automation</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Implement CI/CD, pipeline orchestration, versioning, and agent lifecycle management.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Establish monitoring, tracing, and observability practices for autonomous system behavior.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Automate manual cybersecurity processes through AI-driven workflow orchestration and dynamic agents.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Data Engineering And Cyber Analytics</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Extract, transform, and aggregate data from disparate cybersecurity sources such as SIEM, IAM, SOAR, endpoint telemetry, and API-driven security tools.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Apply ML and statistical modeling techniques for anomaly detection, classification, optimization, and pattern recognition.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Translate complex findings into intuitive visualizations and actionable insights for leadership.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Cross-Functional Collaboration</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Work with cybersecurity SMEs, analysts, and engineers to identify opportunities for autonomous decision systems.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Communicate complex AI concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Drive innovation and advocate for emerging AI technologies across the organization.</span></li> </ul> <div align="center"> </div> <div style="text-align:left" align="center"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Qualifications</strong></span></div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Required Skills</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>5+ years</strong> total experience in software development, AI/ML engineering, or data science.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">1+ year of Cybersecurity domain exposure, especially IAM (SailPoint, CyberArk) and SIEM/SOAR (Splunk, QRadar, etc.).</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>1+ year of hands-on experience building agentic AI or multi-agent applications</strong>, including LLM-driven workflows or reasoning systems.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Strong Python skills and working knowledge of SQL.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Direct experience with <strong>LLM/SLM APIs, embeddings, vector databases, RAG architecture</strong>, and memory systems.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Experience deploying AI workloads on <strong>GCP (Vertex AI)</strong> and <strong>IBM WatsonX</strong>.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Familiarity with <strong>agentic AI protocols, ADKs, LangGraph, AutoGen</strong>, or similar orchestration tools.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Practical experience implementing <strong>Model Context Protocol (MCP)</strong> for agent-level context management.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">1+ year experience with <strong>LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic, or similar frameworks</strong>.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Preferred</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">2+ years developing automation or <strong>RPA</strong> solutions.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">2+ years building on <strong>AWS</strong>, including serverless architectures.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Demonstrated experience with <strong>data visualization</strong> platforms (Tableau, Power BI, Looker).</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">2+ years working with APIs, microservices, and modern data engineering tooling.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Applied experience with <strong>agile software development</strong> practices.</span></li> <li 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