Security AI Engineer: LLMs, Agents & SOC Tools

Accenture PLC; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC is seeking an AI/ML engineer to design, build, and operationalise AI-powered security workflows that integrate with tooling and accelerate threat detection. You will configure and tune LLMs, develop agent-based workflows, and ensure robust security and governance across scalable architectures.

The role requires hands-on experience with production-ready LLM apps, RAG pipelines, and enterprise AI platforms such as Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, or Vertex AI.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents or LLM-powered applications in production environments.
• Experience with enterprise AI platforms such as Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI.
• Strong understanding of LLM concepts, vector databases, context windows, temperature and sampling parameters.
• Experience implementing RAG pipelines end-to-end, including data ingestion and retrieval tuning.
• Experience implementing parsing pipelines for tasks like document processing and ingestion.
• Knowledge of AI security risks and mitigations.
• Experience working within enterprise governance frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with AI/ML libraries.
• Ability to build tools that interact with LLMs and REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• LLM Configuration: tune models for security use cases, prompts, RAG, tool calls.
• Agent Development: design and maintain AI agents and workflows with SOAR/SIEM/EDR integrations.
• Secure Configuration: implement safeguards against adversarial inputs and jailbreaks.
• System Architecture: design modular, scalable AI solutions with secure dev practices.
• Governance: align with AI governance, data handling and audit logging requirements.
• Cost Management: monitor LLM API usage and optimize costs with caching and guardrails.
• Collaboration: work with security engineers and SOC analysts to address operational challenges.
• Documentation: produce clear technical docs for ongoing management.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

LLM development

RAG pipelines

Python

REST APIs

Security awareness

Azure AI Foundry

Agent development

SOAR/SIEM

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

AWS Bedrock

Google Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture PLC is seeking an AI/ML engineer to design, build, and operationalise AI-powered security workflows that integrate with tooling and accelerate threat detection. You will configure and tune LLMs, develop agent-based workflows, and ensure robust security and governance across scalable architectures.

The role requires hands-on experience with production-ready LLM apps, RAG pipelines, and enterprise AI platforms such as Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, or Vertex AI.