Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer Manager

Accenture; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 305,000; Full time

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. You own outcomes—from reducing attack surfaces to measurable security posture improvements—using agentic coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.

You will operate in Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, working in 90-day delivery cycles to build, deploy, and optimize secure AI solutions for

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing secure AI systems with production impact.
• Strong understanding of security controls across AI lifecycles.
• Experience communicating risk in business terms to leadership.
• Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools in production.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required, 12+ years’ work experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production deployments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools in daily practice.
• Own AI threat surface management across client environments and LLM pipelines.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across enterprise stacks and cloud.
• Lead AI governance framework implementations and risk-based investments.
• Publish reusable security patterns, playbooks, and accelerators.
• Lead architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops with client teams.
• Collaborate with security leadership to align security outcomes with business goals.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Production engineering

AI security

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

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. You own outcomes—from reducing attack surfaces to measurable security posture improvements—using agentic coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.

You will operate in Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, working in 90-day delivery cycles to build, deploy, and optimize secure AI solutions for