Client-Facing AI Engineer, Agentic Systems

7606 ACN SG Svc Pte Ltd Company; Singapore; On-site; SGD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is expanding its agentic delivery capability within the Health and Public Services portfolio and is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join the team. This is a hands-on, client-facing role focused on designing and implementing agentic systems with both autonomous and semi-autonomous agents to support delivery for government and public sector clients.

The position involves establishing patterns, guardrails, and governance to enable scalable solutions across multiple engagements.

Qualifications

• 4–8+ years of software engineering experience delivering production systems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; comfortable in client-facing, ambiguous environments.
• Hands-on experience building agentic systems using LLMs, including tool use, function calling, multi-step reasoning, and orchestration.
• Highly proficient in Python, Java, React and/or TypeScript.
• Experience designing evaluation and guardrail mechanisms for non-deterministic AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy agentic systems (single and multi-agent) to automate key aspects of public service delivery.
• Develop reference architectures, tools, and reusable patterns for agentic delivery in public sector, defense, and public safety contexts.
• Create robust evaluation frameworks, observability tools, and guardrails to ensure agent behavior is measurable, safe, and reliable in production.
• Establish governance for autonomy levels, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and escalation protocols, especially in regulated environments.
• Select and integrate appropriate technologies for each use case (agent harnesses, IDE-based agents, cloud agents, orchestration frameworks).
• Coach delivery teams on agentic engineering best practices and contribute to capability maturity.

Skills

Software engineering

Agentic systems

Python

Java

React/TypeScript

Tools

Vector databases

RAG

Orchestration tools

Job description

Accenture is expanding its agentic delivery capability within the Health and Public Services portfolio and is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join the team. This is a hands-on, client-facing role focused on designing and implementing agentic systems with both autonomous and semi-autonomous agents to support delivery for government and public sector clients.

The position involves establishing patterns, guardrails, and governance to enable scalable solutions across multiple engagements.