Senior Manager - Lead AI Architect - Control Intelligence
EY · Sacramento, CA · 3 days ago
HybridArt & Creative$144k–$329k/yrFull-time
About the role
We're looking for an experienced Lead AI Software Architect to lead a team of domain architect experts in designing and implementing AI Agent Control. This role requires extensive experience in agent control, including tool usage, state management/persistence, execution environment control, policy definition and application, multiagent API, and anomaly detection.
Responsibilities
- Design of control harness intelligence systems including multiagent systems and associated tools and scaffolding.
- Architectures for agent identity and authentication in large scale multi-agent enterprise systems.
- Post training and customization/tuning environments.
- Synthesis models for AI open-source models.
- Implement and test these architectures benchmarking performance against agent and human designed evals.
- Design comprehensive AI Agent control frameworks.
- Drive agent design requirements and implement through AI Native design process.
- Assess emerging agent authorization architectures and frontier model proposals.
- Collaborate with other architectural experts in AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure to ensure balanced and practical outcomes.
- Support strategic business development activities for emerging technology as required.
- Present at academic conferences and support development of IP filings.
- Lead a team of experts in building a universal agentic control harnesses.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering and AI.
- Experience working with multi-agent system administration and modern secrets management.
- Experience with AI native software development tools / code assist (Cursor, Claude Code, Qodo/Codium, Gemini, AWS Q, GitHub).
- Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Bash, Typescript etc….) and software languages (Go, Rust, Java etc…).
- Experience with cryptographic methods of identity and auth.
- Experience with modern software IDE, CI/CD pipeline, modern code hosting and collaboration (Github/Gitlab/Azure DevOps etc…).
- Experience with Nvidia NVAIE, AWS and MSFT Azure AI stacks.
Attributes for Success
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to lead software architectural product functions and mentor junior engineers.
- Comfort working across cross-functional teams and managing competing priorities.
- Leverage emotional agility and hybrid collaboration to navigate diverse stakeholder needs and drive long-term engagement.
- Use critical thinking and creative reasoning to address complex problems and exceed expectations.
- Align cross-functional teams around shared goals, ensuring accountability and progress.
- Use emotional intelligence and hybrid collaboration to motivate others and deliver high-impact results.
What We Offer
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits package.
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Health and dental coverage.
- Pension and 401(k) plans.
- Hybrid work model with in-person work expected 40-60% of the time.
- Equal employment opportunity.