Forward-Deployed AI Engineer Leader

Accenture; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 316,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer to design, prototype, deploy, and scale end-to-end AI solutions for enterprise clients. You will work directly with clients, partners, and internal product teams to translate ambiguous business needs into production-grade AI workflows, integrating OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SAP, ServiceNow, Salesforce and other platforms.

This role emphasizes strong engineering depth, clear communication, and a builder’s mindset, with 25–75% travel depending on

Qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering experience (Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java) with 5 years’ experience integrating APIs and building distributed, production systems.
• 2+ years experience with modern AI/ML platforms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar foundation model providers.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with clients and internal teams to understand business problems, shape AI use cases, and define technical solutions — often from ambiguous or evolving requirements.
• Design and implement end-to-end AI solutions, integrating LLMs and AI services with enterprise platforms (SAP, ServiceNow, Salesforce, data platforms, internal systems).
• Rapidly prototype, iterate, and deploy AI-enabled workflows, agents, copilots, and automations into real operational environments.
• Serve as the technical bridge between product, engineering, data, and business stakeholders, ensuring solutions are technically sound, usable, and aligned with business value.
• Drive solution architecture, including prompt and workflow design, API integrations and orchestration, enterprise knowledge integration, security, privacy, and governance considerations.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer to design, prototype, deploy, and scale end-to-end AI solutions for enterprise clients. You will work directly with clients, partners, and internal product teams to translate ambiguous business needs into production-grade AI workflows, integrating OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SAP, ServiceNow, Salesforce and other platforms.

This role emphasizes strong engineering depth, clear communication, and a builder’s mindset, with 25–75% travel depending on