Forward-Deployed Cyber AI Security Engineer

Accenture; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Security is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with a client’s security and engineering teams to make AI systems secure, governed, and resilient in real, complex environments. You own outcomes: reduced attack surface and measurable security posture improvements.

Role emphasizes production-ready coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot as standard tools, building security tooling, threat models, and governance frameworks within a reinvention delivery

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity discipline depth in at least one area.
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in a production environment.
• Minimum 3 years working with Cloud platform security fundamentals (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Support AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex client environments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment.
• Support AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale across client workstreams.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack including identity and access for AI systems.

Skills

AppSec

SecOps

Cloud security

IAM

Penetration testing

GRC

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with a client’s security and engineering teams to make AI systems secure, governed, and resilient in real, complex environments. You own outcomes: reduced attack surface and measurable security posture improvements.

Role emphasizes production-ready coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot as standard tools, building security tooling, threat models, and governance frameworks within a reinvention delivery