Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer

Accenture PLC; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client team, delivering production-grade AI security, governance, and resilience across complex environments.

You will own outcomes, build AI-powered detection, threat models, and governance tooling with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, collaborating with security and engineering colleagues to reduce attack surface.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity specialty.
• 1+ year hands-on design and deployment of agentic AI solutions in production.
• 6+ years end-to-end security delivery ownership in client-embedded or production environments.
• 6+ years cloud security fundamentals including IAM, network security, secrets management.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production deployments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment.
• Own AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack.
• Lead AI governance framework implementation: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF.
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO and CTO.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns, playbooks, accelerators.
• Lead architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops.

Skills

Production Eng

Cybersecurity depth

Agentic AI

Cloud security

Risk communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client team, delivering production-grade AI security, governance, and resilience across complex environments.

You will own outcomes, build AI-powered detection, threat models, and governance tooling with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, collaborating with security and engineering colleagues to reduce attack surface.