AI Systems Engineer - Secure Execution - Senior

Location: Atlanta Other locations: Anywhere in Country Salary: Competitive Date: Aug 27, 2026 Job description -------------------

Requisition ID: 1738677 Location: Anywhere in Country

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The opportunity

We are seeking AI Systems Engineers to own the security and trust fabric of EY’s AI-native platform, comprising the identity, secrets, cryptographic, and attestation layer that makes agentic AI workloads deployable in highly regulated environments. This role owns the enforcement mechanisms that allow EY to prove every workload is identity-bound, every secret is protected, every node is trusted, and every deployment is attestable and audit-ready.

This is the strategic differentiator of the platform. The ability to deploy AI workloads in regulated industries and prove they are secure, economically bounded, and auditable depends on the trust fabric this role builds. It is the technical enforcement layer behind the AI Integrity / Security control authority and much of the platform’s governance capabilities, spanning consistently across cloud, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments.

Your key responsibilities

• Own workload identity and secrets management: SPIRE/ODIS, Keycloak/Entra ID (IAM), OpenBao (secrets store), cert-manager (X.509 lifecycle), PKI issuers/roots, and transit encryption — propagated consistently across every environment and tenant.
• Build confidential compute environments: TEE (TDX/SEV-SNP/SGX/TrustZone/CCA/NVIDIA CC), Intel TXT boot security, and secure DPU architecture (DOCA), so environments are isolated, attestable, and audit-ready.
• Establish the platform-wide identity model so every workload, agent, and service carries a verifiable, propagated iden