AI Security Engineer: Forward-Deployed

Accenture; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture Security invites experienced engineers to join the Forward Deployed engineering team embedded inside client environments. You will own outcomes for production-grade AI security, governance, and resilience, collaborating with security and engineering teams to harden deployments.

You will build AI-powered security tooling and threat models using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, and contribute to security playbooks and accelerators across multiple client engagements.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of engineering experience with cybersecurity in production environments.
• Minimum 1 year hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 3 years working with cloud security fundamentals (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Support AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex client environments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools in daily delivery practice.
• Support AI-specific threat surface management and governance across client workstreams.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack.
• Assist with AI governance framework implementation and risk management.
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy and investment cases for clients.
• Define reusable security patterns and accelerators for multiple engagements.
• Participate in architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops.

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

Agentic AI tooling

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security invites experienced engineers to join the Forward Deployed engineering team embedded inside client environments. You will own outcomes for production-grade AI security, governance, and resilience, collaborating with security and engineering teams to harden deployments.

You will build AI-powered security tooling and threat models using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, and contribute to security playbooks and accelerators across multiple client engagements.