AI Engineer

At EY Consulting Service Line, we support you in achieving your unique potential both personally and professionally. We give you stretching and rewarding experiences that keep you motivated, working in an atmosphere of integrity and teaming. And while we encourage you to take personal responsibility for your career, we support you in your professional development in every way we can.  

The opportunity 

Our EY Consulting ambition is to become the world’s leading transformation consultants, trusted to help our clients generate long-term value. We’re building world-class capabilities in business, technology and people consulting to help us deliver on EY’s purpose of building a better working world — our firm’s broader ambition to become the world’s most trusted, distinctive professional services organization. 

Our clients are at the heart of our new strategy. We’re focused on solving the key issues of our client buyers, building deeper relationships, and making a greater impact. We’re introducing a new go-to-market narrative — Transformation Realized™ — to help us harness the core drivers of transformation that will create long-term value for our clients. 

To achieve this, we are seeking for AI Engineer to join our Transformation Realized™ Consulting practice to support our clients in defining and rolling out the right data architecture, data platforms and infrastructure that support their needs, implement, and maintain automated data pipelines, and infuse data through business intelligence and analytics. Our team is part of EY’s Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe & Central Asia (CESA) cluster, delivering market leading services to organizations across industries in Cyprus and internationally.  

The transformation imperative is urgent, challenging and opportunity-rich, interested to join us? 

Key Responsibilities 

• Contribute to the design and implementation of state-of-the-art AI solutions. 

• Assist in the development and implementation of AI models and systems, leveraging techniques such as Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify business opportunities and define AI project goals. 

• Stay updated with the latest advancements in generative AI techniques, such as LLMs, and evaluate their potential applications in solving enterprise challenges. 

• Utilize generative AI techniques, such as LLMs, to develop innovative solutions for enterprise industry use cases. 

• Integrate with relevant APIs and libraries, such as Azure Open AI GPT models and Hugging Face Transformers, to leverage pre-trained models and enhance generative AI capabilities. 

• Implement and optimize end-to-end pipelines for generative AI projects, ensuring seamless data processing and model deployment. 

• Utilize vector databases, such as Redis, and NoSQL databases to efficiently handle large-scale generative AI datasets and outputs. 

• Implement similarity search algorithms and techniques to enable efficient and accurate retrieval of relevant information from generative AI outputs. 

• Collaborate with domain experts, stakeholders, and clients to understand specific business requirements and tailor generative AI solutions accordingly. 

• Conduct research and evaluation of advanced AI techniques, including transfer learning, domain adaptation, and model compression, to enhance performance and efficiency. 

• Establish evaluation metrics and methodologies to assess the quality, coherence, and relevance of generative AI outputs for enterprise industry use cases. 

• Ensure compliance with data privacy, security, and ethical considerations in AI applications. 

• Leverage data engineering skills to curate, clean, and preprocess large-scale datasets for generative AI applications. 

Skills and Attributes for Success 

• Bachelor’s and/or Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or any other relevant subject from a reputable University. 

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Data Science and Machine Learning. 

• In-depth knowledge of machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI techniques. 

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, and frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch. 

• Strong understanding of NLP techniques and frameworks such as BERT, GPT, or Transformer models. 

• Familiarity with computer vision techniques for image recognition, object detection, or image generation. 

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP and deploying AI solutions in a cloud environment. 

• Expertise in data engineering, including data curation, cleaning, and preprocessing. 

• Knowledge of trusted AI practices, ensuring fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI models and systems. 

• Strong collaboration with software engineering and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of AI models. 

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions. 

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at various levels. 

• Understanding of data privacy, security, and ethical considerations in AI applications. 

• Track record of driving innovation and staying updated with the latest AI research and advancements. 

• Strong mathematical and quantitative skills including calculus, linear algebra, and statistics. 

It will be a plus if you have 

• Apply trusted AI practices to ensure fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI models and systems. 

• Drive DevOps and MLOps practices, covering continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring of AI models. 

• Implement CI/CD pipelines for streamlined model deployment and scaling processes. 

• Utilize tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Git to build and manage AI pipelines. 

• Implement monitoring and logging tools to ensure AI model performance and reliability. 

• Collaborate seamlessly with software engineering and operations teams for efficient AI model integration and deployment. 

• Familiarity with DevOps and MLOps practices, including continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring of AI models. 

• You have experience with lean/agile software development. 

What working at EY offers

EY offers an attractive remuneration package for rewarding both personal and team performance. We are committed to be an inclusive employer and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. In addition, but not limited to our benefits include: 

• 13th salary and yearly bonus 

• Provident Fund 

• Private Medical and Life Insurance 

• Flexible working arrangements (hybrid work and flexible work schedule) 

• Friday afternoon off  

• EY Tech MBA and EY MSc in Business Analytics 

• EY Badges - digital learning certificates 

• Mobility programs (if interested to work abroad) 

• Paid Sick Leave 

• Paid Paternity Leave 

• Yearly wellbeing days off  

• Maternity, Wedding and New Baby Gifts  

• EY Employee Assistance Program (EAP) (counselling, legal and financial consultation services)