Forward Deployed Engineer

4401 Accenture Technology Solu Company; Napoli; On-site; EUR 29,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied) to design, build and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems across the enterprise tech stack. You will work with client teams, lead design sessions, and create reusable patterns and accelerators for scale.

Responsibilities include architecture governance, RAG pipeline standards, multi-LLM integration, and programme-level observability. Collaboration with leadership and delivery teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Production environments experience
• Experience deploying agentic AI in production
• Experience with agentic orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or equivalent)
• Direct experience calling LLM APIs in production code (OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI)
• RAG pipeline ownership: embeddings, chunking, vector DBs
• LLMOps: eval harness, prompts versioning, observability
• Cloud-native: Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, serverless, IaC
• Strong Python; Java or equivalent backend language
• Proven track record shipping three production agentic systems in four years
• People leadership: manage and develop engineers

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern production-grade agentic systems at enterprise scale
• Define RAG pipeline standards across engagements
• Set multi-LLM integration standards across providers
• Own LLMOps at programme scale
• Lead client engineering engagements at senior level
• Shape and publish reusable patterns and accelerators
• Own the measurement framework for agentic system quality

Skills

Production-grade software engineering

Agentic AI systems

LLM integration in production

LLMOps fundamentals

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD

Python

Java or equivalent backend

Observability and debugging

People leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD

Job description

You build the systems that actually make AI work in enterprise environments, not demos, not prototypes that stall after a pilot, but production agentic architectures running inside real client organizations. The difference between an AI Engineer and what we are looking for is straightforward: you have shipped a multi-agent system in production, you have owned the eval harness, and you know what happens when your agent fails at 2am because you have lived it. As an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied), you will design, build, and deploy production‑grade agentic AI systems across the full enterprise technology stack. You will work directly with client engineering teams, lead technical design sessions, and build reusable patterns and accelerators that scale beyond individual engagements. This role sits at the heart of the AI engineering talent market — demand is growing faster than supply and will continue to do so. We offer what no single product company can: breadth across every industry, every enterprise technology stack, and every level of organizational complexity, combined with vendor fellowship access inside Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google engineering teams and a direct pathway to the Forward Deployed Engineer programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and govern production‑grade agentic systems at enterprise scale: multi‑agent orchestration across complex environments, RAG pipelines, policy‑based routing, memory management, and programme‑level lifecycle observability
• Define RAG pipeline standards across engagements: establish chunking and embedding strategies, set quality benchmarks, and ensure metric‑backed tradeoff decisions are documented and transferable
• Set multi‑LLM integration standards: vendor‑agnostic architecture by default, fallback routing and cost governance as standard design practice across providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI, and open‑source models
• Own LLMOps at programme scale: eval strategy, prompt governance, observability tooling standards, safety monitoring and cost controls across multiple concurrent systems
• Lead client engineering engagements at senior level — facilitate architecture design sessions, lead proof‑of‑concept delivery, and drive alignment between client technology leadership and delivery teams
• Shape and publish reusable patterns, accelerators, and engineering standards that scale across the practice and reduce ramp‑up time on new client engagements
• Own the measurement framework for agentic system quality: define accuracy, latency, safety, and cost metrics; present programme‑level AI impact in business terms to senior client stakeholders

Experience, Qualifications and Requirements

• Software engineering experience in production environments
• Hands‑on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in a production environment — non‑negotiable
• Demonstrated experience with agentic orchestration frameworks: LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or equivalent — at production depth, not tutorial level
• Direct experience calling LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI) in production code: provider abstraction, token management, latency and cost tradeoffs
• RAG pipeline ownership: embeddings, chunking strategy, vector databases, and context engineering
• LLMOps fundamentals: eval harness design, prompt versioning, and production observability
• Cloud‑native engineering maturity: Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, serverless, CI/CD, and IaC (Terraform or Helm)
• Strong Python; Java or equivalent backend language acceptable; production debugging and observability experience
• Quality of experience is weighted over years, a candidate who has shipped three production agentic systems in four years is preferred over a generalist with passive AI exposure
• People lead responsibilities: experience managing, developing, and performance‑managing a team of engineers; setting individual development plans and conducting career conversations

Compensation

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to role, level, seniority, responsibility, skillset, and level of experience. For this position, the B3 National Collective Bargaining Agreement applies, with one of the following pay grades and corresponding gross annual salary range: B3: 28,800 and 49,400 #LI-EU #LI-MP

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. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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