Public Sector AI Agent Engineer - Forward Deployed

Accenture PLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture plc is expanding its agentic delivery capability within Health and Public Services, seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer for hands-on, client-facing work. You will design and implement agentic systems using LLMs, create reusable patterns and guardrails, and embed with delivery teams to deliver scalable public sector solutions.

You will collaborate with government clients, establish governance for autonomy levels, and drive capability maturation across engagements, leveraging your

Qualifications

• 4-8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of delivering production systems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; comfortable in client-facing, ambiguous environments.
• Hands-on experience developing agentic systems using LLMs, including tool use, function calling, multi-step reasoning, and orchestration.
• Highly proficient in Python, Java, React and/or TypeScript.

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 in regulated environments.
• Select and integrate 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 engineer experience

Excellent communication

Client-facing

Independent working

Tools

Python

Java

React

TypeScript

Job description

Accenture plc is expanding its agentic delivery capability within Health and Public Services, seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer for hands-on, client-facing work. You will design and implement agentic systems using LLMs, create reusable patterns and guardrails, and embed with delivery teams to deliver scalable public sector solutions.

You will collaborate with government clients, establish governance for autonomy levels, and drive capability maturation across engagements, leveraging your