AI-Native Forward-Deployed Engineering Lead

Accenture PLC; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 87,000 - 316,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC seeks an AI Native Engineer with heavy cloud-native experience to architect and deploy agentic AI workflows for enterprise environments. You will embed with clients, prototype rapidly, and deliver scalable, secure systems using containerization, microservices and observability.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, run design workshops, and drive production-grade AI platforms across multiple industries, balancing performance, safety and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years engineering with cloud-native systems and APIs.
• At least 1 year designing agentic solutions in production.
• 5+ years deploying to production with CI/CD and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer enterprise-ready AI agents with orchestration and observability.
• Develop integration layers across AI providers for seamless workflows.
• Use Kubernetes, Docker and serverless patterns to scale AI-native systems.
• Tailor agentic apps across verticals like finance, healthcare, retail.

Skills

Cloud-native

Agentic design

Python/Java

CI/CD

Client engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

OpenAI Anthropic Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture PLC seeks an AI Native Engineer with heavy cloud-native experience to architect and deploy agentic AI workflows for enterprise environments. You will embed with clients, prototype rapidly, and deliver scalable, secure systems using containerization, microservices and observability.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, run design workshops, and drive production-grade AI platforms across multiple industries, balancing performance, safety and cost efficiency.