Forward Deployed Engineer

Accenture; Leinster; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to work embedded with client teams to deploy and operationalize AI platforms inside large enterprises. You will own production outcomes end-to-end, focusing on time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability with measurable business impact.

The role involves rapid prototyping to production, designing cross-cutting AI architectures, and shaping ROI roadmaps for CTOs, CFOs, and CISOs.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• Expertise in designing agentic AI solutions in production.
• Experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI) and multi-provider pipelines.
• Production deployments, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform, Helm), monitoring and debugging.
• Demonstrated end-to-end delivery ownership in client-embedded environments.
• Ability to articulate business value to CFO/CISO and gain trust with senior stakeholders.
• Non-linear career paths welcomed; deployment outcomes matter.

Responsibilities

• Embed with client teams to deploy and operationalize AI platforms inside enterprise environments.
• Own production outcomes end-to-end with time-to-value, reliability, adoption, and scalability.
• Move from business problems to production-ready systems via rapid prototyping.
• Design and govern AI architectures across identity, data, security, governance, and workflow.
• Translate architecture into business impact for CTO/CFO/CISO; shape roadmaps and ROI backlogs.
• Build reusable patterns, playbooks, accelerators for client ownership.
• Lead design workshops, PoCs, architecture walkthroughs, and code-with sessions.
• Codify patterns and learning to scale across engagements and grow FDE practice.

Skills

Cloud-native architectures

Agentic AI systems

AI platforms: OpenAI/Claude/Vertex

CI/CD & IaC

End-to-end delivery ownership

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Job description

This is not a consulting role. It is not a project delivery role. It is not a research position. A Forward Deployed AI Engineer is a production engineer who works embedded inside a client's enterprise, shoulder to shoulder with their teams, to make complex AI platforms work in real, messy organizational environments. You own outcomes: time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability. Not delivery milestones. Outcomes.

The market is beginning to understand what leading technology companies have demonstrated: AI products fail not because the models are weak but because deployment is broken. The gap between a successful AI pilot and an AI capability that scales is bridged by engineers who can translate platform capability into measurable business value inside a real enterprise environment. That is this role.

Forward Deployed AI Engineers form the execution spine of our Reinvention Deployment Engineering pods. We are building the largest FDE capability in the services industry. The engineers who join at this stage will define what the role looks like at scale and will have access to the hardest enterprise AI problems in the market across every industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Embed directly with client engineering and business teams to deploy, scale, and operationalize AI platforms — Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, SAP, or Palantir — inside enterprise environments
• Own production outcomes end-to-end: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability, with business metrics attached — not just delivery milestones
• Move from ambiguous business problem to working production system through rapid experimentation: days to prototype, weeks to production-ready
• Design and govern AI architectures across the full enterprise stack: identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, and workflow integration
• Translate technical architecture into business impact for client CTO, CFO, and CISO; shape use case roadmaps, ROI backlogs, and AI adoption strategy
• Build reusable patterns, playbooks, and accelerators that the client owns after you leave — enabling the client team to run it without you
• Lead design workshops, proofs of concept, architecture walkthroughs, and code-with sessions with client engineering and leadership teams
• Codify patterns and delivery learnings that scale across engagements and contribute to the growth of the FDE practice

Job Qualifications

• Engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• Deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments.
• Experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines.
• Experience deploying to production , CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.
• Demonstrated end-to-end delivery ownership in a client-embedded environment, internal projects, vendor labs, or team-only deployments do not qualify
• Proven ability to articulate business value: can quantify the impact of deployments in terms a CFO would recognize and act on
• Experience presenting to and building trust with senior client stakeholders, CTO, CFO, or CISO level
• Non-linear profiles are expected and welcomed, assessment is based on demonstrated deployment experience and outcome ownership, not CV pattern matching

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.