AI Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer Associate Manager · Databricks · Reinvention Centers

1000 Accenture LLP Company; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks an AI Native Engineer to design and productionize GenAI solutions on the Databricks Intelligence Platform. The role embeds with clients as a technologist and trusted advisor to define use cases, prototype, and deploy agentic workflows in complex enterprise environments.

You’ll work with Mosaic AI, LangChain and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), building robust MLOps pipelines, instrumentation and governance with Unity Catalog. Travel 25–75% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.
• Minimum 4 years of engineering on Databricks and large-scale data projects.
• 5+ years Python/Java experience; production AI/ML experience required.
• Experience with MLOps/LLMOps, CI/CD, and cloud AI tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise-ready AI agents with retrieval, orchestration, routing, and observability.
• Build RAG and multi-agent systems on Databricks using Mosaic AI and Vector Search.
• Develop data foundations on Lakehouse (Delta Lake, DLT) and Unity Catalog governance.
• Deploy agentic applications across finance, healthcare, and retail sectors.
• Conduct design workshops and proofs of concept with client stakeholders.
• Define metrics for agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Operate CI/CD pipelines and MLOps throughout the ML/LLM lifecycle.
• Integrate LLM solutions via APIs, monitoring, and prompt management.

Skills

Databricks

Python/Java

MLOps/LLMOps

CI/CD

Terraform

Helm

Unity Catalog

OpenAI/Claude/Vertex AI

APIs/Model Serving

Big Data / Spark

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Mosaic AI

Vector Search

Model Serving

MLflow

Delta Lake

Apache Spark

Terraform

Job description

About Us

We are: The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) are the engine for reinvention in our clients’ transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000 people across 24 countries, ATCs provide our clients with seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions. Stronger together The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) make a tremendous impact in solving our clients’ business problems by leveraging innovation, intelligence, industry insights, new IT, and new technology skills. With the global environment changing at a faster pace, our clients are facing unprecedented challenges, and they need us more than ever before. As a Network, ATCs are positioned to unlock greater opportunities and exponential value for our clients. The value for our clients and our people: For our clients, the Network provides the strength of our geographic diversity, greater resilience, and seamless access to the deepest industry knowledge, the latest in Gen AI solutions, and tech expertise from around the world. For our people, it brings an opportunity to shape truly boundaryless career paths in a highly collaborative team of experts where they can learn from each other and solve the world’s most complex client challenges.

You Are

An AI Native Engineer with strong experience building GenAI solutions and deep expertise in productionizing AI applications on the Databricks Intelligence Platform. You thrive in customer-facing complexity and deliver outcomes by applying the latest techniques from Mosaic AI Research, designing RAG and multi-agent systems with HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy, and shipping production-grade GenAI at scale on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

The Work

You will embed directly with clients as both technologist and trusted advisor. You will partner with stakeholders to define use cases, rapidly prototype, and deploy agentic workflows that are robust, secure, and operational in complex enterprise domains.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer enterprise-ready AI agents encompassing retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
• Build RAG and multi-agent systems on Databricks using Mosaic AI, Vector Search, Model Serving, and MLflow; govern data and models through Unity Catalog.
• Develop data and feature foundations on the Lakehouse (Delta Lake, DLT, Unity Catalog) that feed production AI applications.
• Tailor and deploy agentic applications across industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail.
• Conduct design workshops, proofs of concept, and code-with sessions with client stakeholders.
• Define and use metrics to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost efectiveness.
• Process large-scale distributed datasets on the Databricks Intelligence Platform with Apache Spark.
• Integrate LLM solutions with APIs, model monitoring, and prompt management.
• Operate MLOps / LLMOps pipelines with CI/CD across the ML and LLM lifecycle.

Here’s What You Need

• Minimum 4 years of engineering experience on Databricks and large-scale big data projects (Delta Lake, DLT, Apache Spark, Unity Catalog).
• You’ve also built API layers that expose data and AI/ML capabilities to enterprise systems.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Python, Java, or equivalent.
• Comfortable with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and observability.
• Minimum 1 year experience in designing and shipping agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 1 year experience in shipping agentic solutions in production (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) using AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, open source) and Databricks AI tooling (Mosaic AI, Vector Search, Model Serving, MLflow).
• Minimum 2 years experience in shipping to production: CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.
• Practical MLOps and LLMOps experience across the ML and LLM lifecycle (model training, serving, monitoring, prompt management).
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

This is a hybrid role in Dallas, TX and requires 3 days per week in the office. May consider qualified applicants in Columbus, OH; Tampa, FL; Atlanta, GA; Houston, TX. Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 25% to 75% depending on business need and client requirements.

Compensation and Benefits

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 10/02/2026. 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.

Annual Salary Range

• California $73,800 to $261,500
• Colorado $73,800 to $225,900
• Connecticut $73,800 to $225,900
• District of Columbia $78,500 to $240,600
• Illinois $68,300 to $225,900
• Maine $62,800 to $192,500
• Maryland $73,800 to $225,900
• Massachusetts $73,800 to $240,600
• Minnesota $73,800 to $225,900
• New York $68,300 to $261,500
• New Jersey $78,500 to $261,500
• Ohio $68,300 to $209,200
• Virginia $68,300 to $240,600
• Washington $80,200 to $240,600

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Life coverage
• Long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Bonus opportunities
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent‑and‑innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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