AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager

Accenture; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 123,000 - 302,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an AI Native Engineer with deep expertise in building cloud-native AI agents for enterprise environments. You will embed with clients, define use cases, prototype, and deploy agentic workflows that scale across modern infrastructure.

You should have hands-on experience across Python/Java, Kubernetes and AI platforms, and be comfortable traveling to client sites as needed to deliver results.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience building cloud-native AI solutions.
• Experience designing and deploying agentic workflows in enterprise environments.
• Ability to work with multiple AI platforms and tools in production.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer agentic AI solutions for enterprise use cases.
• Prototype, deploy, and operate agentic workflows with robust observability.
• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to define use cases and success metrics.
• Integrate AI agents with cloud-native platforms and CI/CD pipelines.
• Share patterns, docs, and best practices to accelerate adoption.

Skills

AI engineering

Python/Java

Cloud-native systems

Agentic AI

Client workshops

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

OpenAI

Anthropic

Google Cloud

Job description

We Are

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 800,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client‑focused, AI‑enabled, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360 value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

There is never a typical day at Accenture, but that’s why we love it here! This is an extraordinary chance to work in a digitally driven, innovation-led environment where you can help clients in their own reinvention journey. As you build a rewarding career at Accenture, you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading-edge technologies and take on some of the coolest projects you can imagine.

You Are

An AI Native Engineer with a minimum of 3 years of experience building cloud-native solutions, and deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic systems, especially for enterprise environments. You are a critical thinker that thrives in ambiguity, delivering concrete results by designing, building, and running custom AI agents that augment workflows and scale across modern infrastructure. You’ll help shape the playbook for how enterprises adopt and scale AI-native engineering globally.

The Work

You’ll embed directly with clients — acting as both technologist and trusted advisor. You’ll partner with stakeholders to define use cases, rapidly prototype, and deploy agentic workflows that are robust, secure, and operational in complex enterprise domains. Often, these will be completely net new platforms and systems that need to be stitched together in our clients' environments alongside our Ecosystem partners.

Responsibilities

• Agent Architecture and Engineering: Design and engineer enterprise-ready AI agents encompassing retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
• AI Platform Integration: Develop abstraction layers across AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc. ) to enable seamless integration and enablement.
• Cloud-native Engineering: Leverage containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and observability to deliver scalable AI-native systems.
• Domain-Specific Workflows: Tailor and deploy agentic applications across verticals – e.g., finance, healthcare, retail – addressing domain-specific processes via intelligent automation.
• Client Engagement: Conduct design workshops, POCs, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows with stakeholders, fostering trust and adoption.
• Measure & Improve: Define and use key metrics, test harnesses, and evaluation plans to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Knowledge Sharing: Craft reusable patterns, documentation, and best practices to influence internal assets and client roadmaps.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here’s What You Need

• Minimum 10 years' experience with end-to-end software engineering and SDLC expertise
• Minimum 8 years' experience in the following:
  • Programming in Python, Java, or equivalent; familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability.
  • Deploying to production — CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.
  • With client communication and collaboration, including being capable of leading technical workshops and delivering under ambiguity.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the following:
  • Engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
  • With AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines.
• Minimum of 2 years of hands‑on experience designing and delivering Agentic AI solutions
• Minimum of 1.5 years' experience in the following:
  • With semantic models, ontologies, knowledge graphs, or enterprise knowledge
  • Using coding agents and AI-assisted software development
• Minimum of 1 year expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Bonus Points If

• You’ve served as an Agentic AI Engineer in an Enterprise environment
• Additional AI certifications or agentic tool experience is a plus.
• You’ve defined or worked with enterprise‑grade architectures for compound AI systems, orchestration frameworks, or agent registry/stream-based architectures.
• You understand the AI-native paradigm – blending cloud-native with generative model architectures – optimizing for performance, modularity, and efficiency.
• You’ve delivered solutions across multiple industries (e.g., finance, healthcare) by tailoring agentic workflows to industry needs

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 11/30/2026.

Benefits

• Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

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