AI Security Engineering Lead - Forward-Deployed

Accenture; Carmel (IN); On-site; USD 87,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Long-term disability

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture’s Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineers embed with client teams to ensure secure, governable, and resilient AI deployments in real‑world environments. You will own outcomes, craft security tooling, and build governance frameworks alongside client engineers.

You will leverage Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot as primary tools to deliver production‑grade security solutions, threat modeling, and risk‑aware architectures across cloud platforms and enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years engineering with cybersecurity depth.
• At least 1 year designing agentic AI solutions in production.
• 6+ years end‑to‑end security delivery ownership in client environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production deployments across complex client environments.
• Deliver hands‑on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment.
• Own AI‑specific threat surface management across program scale: OWASP LLM Top 10 controls, prompt injection hardening, model risk management.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack: identity and access, data pipelines, and multi‑system integration.

Skills

AI security

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Cloud security

IAM security

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture’s Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineers embed with client teams to ensure secure, governable, and resilient AI deployments in real‑world environments. You will own outcomes, craft security tooling, and build governance frameworks alongside client engineers.

You will leverage Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot as primary tools to deliver production‑grade security solutions, threat modeling, and risk‑aware architectures across cloud platforms and enterprise systems.