Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer Lead

Accenture; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 130,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) plan with company match

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Accenture is hiring a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer. You will be embedded inside a client’s enterprise to secure, govern, and harden AI systems. You will own outcomes, reduce attack surface, and deliver production-ready AI tooling and governance.

The role emphasizes agentic coding tools, threat modeling, and end-to-end security delivery in a client-embedded environment, with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity discipline.
• Minimum 2 years hands-on design/deploy of agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 8 years end-to-end security delivery ownership in client-embedded or production settings.
• Minimum 8 years working with cloud security fundamentals across providers.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex client environments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools in daily delivery practice.
• Own AI-specific threat surface management across program scale and OWASP LLM Top 10 controls.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack including IAM and data pipelines.
• Lead governance framework implementation for AI risk and compliance in live systems.
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO/CTO and drive investment roadmaps.
• Publish reusable security patterns, playbooks, and accelerators for multiple engagements.
• Lead architecture design sessions, threat modeling workshops, and client sessions; mentor teams.

Skills

AI security

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Cloud security

Team leadership

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

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GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture is hiring a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer. You will be embedded inside a client’s enterprise to secure, govern, and harden AI systems. You will own outcomes, reduce attack surface, and deliver production-ready AI tooling and governance.

The role emphasizes agentic coding tools, threat modeling, and end-to-end security delivery in a client-embedded environment, with travel as needed.