Embedded AI Security Engineer & FDE Senior Lead

Accenture; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client security and engineering teams, delivering production‑grade AI security solutions. You will own outcomes such as reducing attack surface, deploying AI‑secure systems, and improving security posture in real, complex environments.

The role emphasizes agentic coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, building tooling, threat models, and governance frameworks as core deliverables. Travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity discipline depth in at least one area: AppSec, SecOps, cloud security, IAM, offensive security or GRC.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in a production environment.
• Minimum 8 years of end-to-end security delivery ownership experience in a client-embedded or production environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic 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 at programme scale: OWASP LLM Top 10 controls, prompt injection hardening, model risk management.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack including IAM and data pipeline security.
• Lead AI governance framework implementation: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and model risk management in live systems.
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO/CTO with risk-adjusted investment cases.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns, playbooks, and accelerators for multiple engagements.
• Lead architecture design sessions, threat modeling workshops, and code-with sessions with client teams.
• Cybersecurity domain expertise in at least one discipline (AppSec, SecOps, IAM, cloud, GRC, or offensive security).
• Proposal/SOW development, solution shaping, and client engagement management.
• Executive workshop facilitation and C-suite communication.
• Structured analytical thinking and hypothesis-driven problem decomposition.
• Team leadership: coaching managers and consultants through delivery.

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

Threat modeling

Cloud security

IAM

GRC

AI security

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client security and engineering teams, delivering production‑grade AI security solutions. You will own outcomes such as reducing attack surface, deploying AI‑secure systems, and improving security posture in real, complex environments.

The role emphasizes agentic coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, building tooling, threat models, and governance frameworks as core deliverables. Travel may be required.