Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer

Accenture; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 291,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client team and drive secure, governed AI deployments. You own outcomes from threat modeling to production-ready security tooling, working with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.

This role emphasizes hands-on security engineering in enterprise environments and end-to-end security delivery. Travel may be required and you will operate within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine to deliver 90-day cycles and

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of engineering experience in production environments with cybersecurity depth in at least one area (AppSec, SecOps, cloud security, IAM, offensive security/GRC).
• Minimum 1 year hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 6 years end-to-end security delivery ownership in a client-embedded or production setting.
• Minimum 6 years working with cloud security fundamentals across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

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, prompt injection hardening).
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack (identity, data pipeline, model serving).
• Lead AI governance framework implementation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, model risk management).
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO/CTO with risk-adjusted investment cases.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns, playbooks, accelerators for multiple client engagements.
• Lead architecture design sessions, threat modeling workshops, and code-with sessions.

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

Agentic AI experience

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years)

Associate’s degree with 6+ years experience

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client team and drive secure, governed AI deployments. You own outcomes from threat modeling to production-ready security tooling, working with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.

This role emphasizes hands-on security engineering in enterprise environments and end-to-end security delivery. Travel may be required and you will operate within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine to deliver 90-day cycles and