AI Security Engineer - Forward-Deployed & Production-Ready

Accenture PLC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer embedded inside a client's enterprise—shoulder to shoulder with security and engineering teams to make AI systems secure, governed, and resilient in real, complex environments.

You own outcomes: reduced attack surface, production-safe AI deployments, measurable security posture improvement; agentic coding is the primary delivery method, using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot to build security tooling, detection systems, and

Qualifications

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments.
• Own outcomes: reduced attack surface and measurable security posture improvements.
• Ability to work embedded with client security and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment.

Skills

AI security

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture PLC is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer embedded inside a client's enterprise—shoulder to shoulder with security and engineering teams to make AI systems secure, governed, and resilient in real, complex environments.

You own outcomes: reduced attack surface, production-safe AI deployments, measurable security posture improvement; agentic coding is the primary delivery method, using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot to build security tooling, detection systems, and