AI Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

Accenture; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) + bonus opportunities

Life and long-term disability

Job summary

Accenture Security is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client's security and engineering teams, delivering production-grade AI security solutions and governance in real environments.

You will own outcomes—from reducing attack surface to deploy-ready security postures—using agentic coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, and you will shape security patterns and risk-based investment cases for CISO/CTO audiences.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of engineering experience in production environments with cybersecurity depth.
• Minimum 1 year hands-on design/deployment of agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 6 years end-to-end security delivery ownership in client-embedded environments.
• Minimum 6 years cloud security fundamentals across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; if Associate’s Degree, 6 years of work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools in daily delivery.
• Own AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack.
• Lead AI governance framework implementation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF).
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client executives.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns and accelerators.
• Lead architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops.

Skills

Security risk communication

People leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client's security and engineering teams, delivering production-grade AI security solutions and governance in real environments.

You will own outcomes—from reducing attack surface to deploy-ready security postures—using agentic coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, and you will shape security patterns and risk-based investment cases for CISO/CTO audiences.