Public Sector Agentic AI Engineer - Client Delivery

Accenture Southeast Asia; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Southeast Asia is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our Health and Public Services team in Singapore. This hands-on, client-facing role designs and implements agentic systems with autonomous and semi-autonomous agents to transform public service delivery.

You will establish governance, guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and reusable patterns to scale solutions across engagements, embedding with delivery teams and clients to build agents that turn work into repeatable

Qualifications

• 4–8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; comfortable client-facing
• Hands-on experience developing agentic systems using LLMs, tool use, 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

LLM integration

Python

Java

React

TypeScript

Communication

Client-facing

Tools

Vector databases

RAG

Orchestration tools

Job description

Accenture Southeast Asia is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join our Health and Public Services team in Singapore. This hands-on, client-facing role designs and implements agentic systems with autonomous and semi-autonomous agents to transform public service delivery.

You will establish governance, guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and reusable patterns to scale solutions across engagements, embedding with delivery teams and clients to build agents that turn work into repeatable