Embedded AI Security Engineer — Production-Ready

Accenture; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Life insurance

Long‑term disability coverage

401(k) plan

Bonuses

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, delivering secure, governed, and resilient AI systems. You will own outcomes—reducing attack surface and ensuring production-safe AI deployments across complex environments.

The role emphasizes agentic coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, and requires delivering security tooling, threat models, and governance frameworks in collaboration with client engineering and security leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience in production environments with cybersecurity depth.
• 1 year hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• 6+ years end-to-end security delivery ownership in client-embedded or production settings.
• 6+ years working with cloud security fundamentals (IAM, network, secrets, AI service configs).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools in daily practice.
• Own AI-specific threat surface management across programme scale.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across enterprise stack.
• Lead AI governance framework implementation and risk-adjusted investment cases.
• Publish reusable security patterns and playbooks across client engagements.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Risk communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, delivering secure, governed, and resilient AI systems. You will own outcomes—reducing attack surface and ensuring production-safe AI deployments across complex environments.

The role emphasizes agentic coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, and requires delivering security tooling, threat models, and governance frameworks in collaboration with client engineering and security leadership.