AI & Data - Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Manager
Build and deploy enterprise-grade AI systems for clients, leading from prototype to production with LLMs, RAG, agents, and MLOps in regulated environments.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Dublin, Ireland
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Ai engineering
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience building and deploying AI agents or autonomous systems in production
- Experience in using modern Python AI stack (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, FastAPI)
- Previous work in a forward deployed, field engineering, or technical account management role
- Domain expertise in verticals like finance, healthcare, government, or manufacturing
Full description
Location: Dublin 2
Other locations: Primary Location Only
Date: Jul 8, 2026
Requisition ID: 1716694
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Business Area
AI & Data - Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Manager
Contract Type
Full-Time – Permanent
EY exists to build a better working world, we empower our people by offering the culture, tech, teams, scale, challenges, learning, and the relationships for you to personalise and build your career, helping to create long‑term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.
This role can be located in our offices across the Republic of Ireland, working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
The Team and the opportunity
As part of our AI & Data team, this role is pivotal in enabling our clients to derive significant value from AI. Through collaboration and domain expertise, our team embeds innovative AI & Data solutions into existing business areas, transforming data into strategic assets. We are looking for a Forward Deployed AI Engineer who is passionate about leveraging AI & data to solve complex problems and drive business outcomes.
As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer at EY, you will be a client‑embedded technical leader responsible for translating AI ambition into trusted, enterprise‑grade solutions. You will work closely with EY Partners, engagement teams, and senior client stakeholders to design, build, and deploy AI systems that operate effectively within complex, regulated, and large‑scale environments.
This role blends deep hands‑on engineering, consulting judgment, and client‑facing delivery ownership. You will carry solutions from concept through production and enable clients to sustainably operate and evolve their AI capabilities.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Turn ambiguous business problems into concrete AI solutions by partnering with clients to understand workflows, constraints, success metrics, and incentives
- Translate business challenges into well‑scoped AI use cases (e.g., prediction, automation, retrieval, agent workflows)
- Define MVP scope, data requirements, and evaluation criteria jointly with stakeholders
- Build fast prototypes using LLMs, RAG pipelines, fine‑tuning, agents, traditional ML models where appropriate