Forward‑Deployed AI Security Engineer

Accenture; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture Security is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer who works embedded with client security and engineering teams to secure AI systems, govern them, and deliver resilient, production-ready deployments. This role uses AI-assisted coding tools to build detection systems, governance patterns, and security playbooks.

The team operates in 90-day delivery cycles within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, owning end-to-end outcomes from build to deploy and optimization in client environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity discipline depth in at least one area.
• Minimum 1 year of hands‑on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in a production environment.
• Minimum 3 years working with Cloud platform security fundamentals across at least one provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Support AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments.
• Deliver hands‑on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment.
• Support 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.
• Assist with AI governance framework implementation: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and model risk management.
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO and CTO.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns, playbooks, accelerators.
• Contribute to architecture design sessions and code-with sessions with client teams.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Agentic AI

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

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GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer who works embedded with client security and engineering teams to secure AI systems, govern them, and deliver resilient, production-ready deployments. This role uses AI-assisted coding tools to build detection systems, governance patterns, and security playbooks.

The team operates in 90-day delivery cycles within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, owning end-to-end outcomes from build to deploy and optimization in client environments.