AI Security Forward‑Deployed Lead Engineer

Accenture; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 366,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Long-term Disability

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture Security seeks a seasoned Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, delivering secure, governed AI deployments and resilient solutions. You will own security outcomes—from design through hardened delivery—using agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to build detection systems, governance automation, and threat models.

The role demands deep production security expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to operate within 90-day delivery

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity discipline.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 8 years of end-to-end security delivery ownership in client-embedded or production environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools.
• Own AI-specific threat surface management and AI supply chain security across client workstreams.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack.
• Lead AI governance framework implementation including EU AI Act and NIST RMF.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Cloud security

AI governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security seeks a seasoned Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, delivering secure, governed AI deployments and resilient solutions. You will own security outcomes—from design through hardened delivery—using agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to build detection systems, governance automation, and threat models.

The role demands deep production security expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to operate within 90-day delivery