Secure AI Engineer — Shape Safe AI in the Cloud

Accenture PLC; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Long & short-term career break

Structured career development program

Local and international career opps

Family Inclusive Workplace

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Secure AI Engineer to deliver hands-on consulting and engineering services across Secure AI, AI-enabled applications, and modern cloud environments.

You will work with clients and teammates to build secure, usable outcomes, contribute to reviews, risk identification, and practical security recommendations, while advancing your skills across AI development, cloud platforms, and secure-by-design delivery.

Qualifications

• Around 2+ years of experience in software engineering, ML engineering, data science, cloud engineering, security engineering, or technical consulting.
• Experience building, reviewing, or supporting modern applications or cloud-based systems.
• Familiarity with secure development practices and common security concepts across AI, applications, infrastructure, and integrations.
• Ability to investigate technical issues, structure findings, and communicate clearly.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of secure AI and application security engagements for enterprise and government clients.
• Contribute to reviews of AI-enabled applications, workflows, platforms, and integrations.
• Assist in identifying risks across models, prompts, data flows, APIs, cloud services, and supporting systems.
• Help define practical recommendations to improve security, governance, and delivery controls.
• Build or configure technical controls, patterns, and supporting artefacts for secure AI implementations.
• Produce clear, high-quality client deliverables, including technical products, findings, recommendations, implementation guidance, and supporting documentation.
• Work with client stakeholders to understand their environment, priorities, and constraints.
• Contribute to reusable templates, reference patterns, and internal capability uplift across the Secure AI team.
• Collaborate across CyberCX practices where engagements span cloud, identity, application security, data, or governance domains.

Skills

Software engineering

ML engineering

Data science

Cloud engineering

Security engineering

Technical consulting

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Secure AI Engineer to deliver hands-on consulting and engineering services across Secure AI, AI-enabled applications, and modern cloud environments.

You will work with clients and teammates to build secure, usable outcomes, contribute to reviews, risk identification, and practical security recommendations, while advancing your skills across AI development, cloud platforms, and secure-by-design delivery.