Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer

Accenture; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

Accenture Security is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client’s security and engineering teams, delivering secure, governed, and resilient AI deployments. This role emphasizes production outcomes, agentic coding, and hands-on security engineering in real environments.

You will work within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, operating in 90-day cycles to own end-to-end security across build, deploy, and optimize phases, collaborating with client teams and

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity discipline depth in at least one area (AppSec, SecOps, cloud security, IAM, offensive security or GRC).
• Minimum 1 year hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production—non-negotiable.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Security engineering

Agentic AI

Cloud security

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

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GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client’s security and engineering teams, delivering secure, governed, and resilient AI deployments. This role emphasizes production outcomes, agentic coding, and hands-on security engineering in real environments.

You will work within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, operating in 90-day cycles to own end-to-end security across build, deploy, and optimize phases, collaborating with client teams and