Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer: Enterprise Impact

Accenture PLC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 142,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer—production-focused, embedded inside a client's enterprise, shoulder to shoulder with their teams to drive time-to-value, adoption, reliability and scalability.

You will own end-to-end AI deployments, from architecture through adoption, across platforms like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SAP, ServiceNow and Salesforce, in complex multi-stakeholder environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or college diploma in a related field.
• 10–15 years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems including APIs and microservices.
• 8+ years of software engineering with Java, TypeScript/JavaScript or Python.
• 8+ years integrating APIs and building distributed, production systems.
• 1+ year designing and deploying agentic solutions in production environments.
• 1+ year applying AI-native development across the lifecycle with AI coding agents.
• 1+ year working with enterprise AI platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, SAP, Palantir).
• Experience leading executive workshops and translating business needs into technical designs.

Responsibilities

• Own account-level AI transformation from platform selection to enterprise-wide adoption.
• Lead enterprise AI deployments across complex client environments with measurable ROI.
• Translate strategic intent into production AI systems and resolve ambiguity at scale.
• Drive rapid experimentation and prototyping of AI-enabled workflows and copilots.
• Define governance, identity, data, and security standards for enterprise AI solutions.

Skills

Java

TypeScript/JavaScript

Python

API integration

AI deployment

Agentic software development

Client-facing communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or college diploma in related field

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer—production-focused, embedded inside a client's enterprise, shoulder to shoulder with their teams to drive time-to-value, adoption, reliability and scalability.

You will own end-to-end AI deployments, from architecture through adoption, across platforms like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SAP, ServiceNow and Salesforce, in complex multi-stakeholder environments.