Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer

Accenture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Bonus Opportunities

Paid Holidays

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, owning outcomes from threat modeling to hardened deployment of production AI systems. You will build security tooling and governance using Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot as core delivery environments.

With 8+ years in engineering security, you will lead end-to-end delivery, including cloud security, IAM, and model risk management, while guiding client engineers and security leadership through

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of engineering experience with cybersecurity depth in at least one area.
• Minimum 1 year hands-on designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 6 years of end-to-end security delivery ownership in a client-embedded or production environment.
• Minimum 6 years cloud security fundamentals across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments—LLM systems, multi-agent pipelines, RAG architectures, and MLOps infrastructure—owning the full security design from assessment through hardened deployment.
• Build AI-powered detection systems, automated threat response tooling, security assessment frameworks, and governance automation using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot in daily delivery practice.
• Own AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale: OWASP LLM Top 10 controls, prompt injection hardening, model extraction prevention, adversarial input defences, and AI supply chain security across concurrent client workstreams.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack: identity and access for AI systems, data pipeline security, model serving security, and multi-system integration risk across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Lead AI governance framework implementation: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and model risk management applied to live production systems, not theoretical compliance exercises.
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO and CTO: build risk-adjusted investment cases, security architecture roadmaps, and AI governance operating models aligned to commercial outcomes.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns, playbooks, and accelerators that scale across multiple client engagements and grow the Secure AI practice.
• Lead architecture design sessions, threat modeling workshops, and code-with sessions with client engineering and security leadership teams.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Agentic AI

Cloud security

Communication of risk

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, owning outcomes from threat modeling to hardened deployment of production AI systems. You will build security tooling and governance using Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot as core delivery environments.

With 8+ years in engineering security, you will lead end-to-end delivery, including cloud security, IAM, and model risk management, while guiding client engineers and security leadership through