Embedded AI Security Engineer – Production-Ready

Accenture; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life and long-term disability

401(k) + company bonus

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Accenture Security seeks a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client’s enterprise teams, delivering secure, governance-backed AI deployments. You own outcomes like reduced attack surface and production-safe AI deployments, combining threat modeling with hands-on security engineering.

You will work in a pod aligned to a client’s AI programme, delivering end-to-end security across build, deploy, and optimize cycles. Strong engineering in security and AI tooling is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years engineering in production with cybersecurity depth in at least one area (AppSec, SecOps, cloud security, IAM, offensive security, or GRC).
• Minimum 1 year hands-on with agentic AI solutions in production (non‑theoretical).
• Minimum 3 years working with cloud security fundamentals (IAM, network, secrets, AI service security).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (12 years).

Responsibilities

• Support AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across multi-stakeholder environments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment.
• Support AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale across client workstreams.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack.
• Assist with AI governance framework implementation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF).
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client executives with risk-adjusted investment cases.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns and accelerators across client engagements.
• Contribute to architecture design sessions, threat modeling workshops, and code-with sessions with client teams.

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

AI security

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Cloud security

Communication of risk

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security seeks a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client’s enterprise teams, delivering secure, governance-backed AI deployments. You own outcomes like reduced attack surface and production-safe AI deployments, combining threat modeling with hands-on security engineering.

You will work in a pod aligned to a client’s AI programme, delivering end-to-end security across build, deploy, and optimize cycles. Strong engineering in security and AI tooling is essential.