Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer

Accenture; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 94,000 - 316,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture Security seeks a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed within a client’s enterprise, driving production-grade AI security, governance, and resilience. You will own outcomes, reduce attack surface, and enable secure, governed AI deployments using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot alongside client teams.

You will work in a small, outcome-oriented RDE Pod, delivering end-to-end security across build, deploy, and optimize cycles, and collaborating with security leadership

Qualifications

• 8+ years engineering experience in production environments with cybersecurity depth in at least one area (AppSec, SecOps/detection, cloud security, IAM, offensive security/GRC)
• Minimum 1 year hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production environments
• Minimum 6 years end-to-end security delivery ownership in client-embedded/production environments
• Minimum 6 years working with Cloud platform security fundamentals (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience; if Associate’s Degree, 6 years required

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools
• 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/CTO
• Define and publish reusable security patterns and accelerators
• Lead architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops

Skills

AI security architecture

Threat modeling

Agentic coding

Cloud security

IAM

GRC

Security delivery ownership

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security seeks a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed within a client’s enterprise, driving production-grade AI security, governance, and resilience. You will own outcomes, reduce attack surface, and enable secure, governed AI deployments using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot alongside client teams.

You will work in a small, outcome-oriented RDE Pod, delivering end-to-end security across build, deploy, and optimize cycles, and collaborating with security leadership