Lead AI Security Engineer - Forward Deployed

Accenture; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to work embedded with client teams, delivering production‑level AI security capabilities. You will own outcomes such as reduced attack surface, production‑safe AI deployments, and measurable security posture improvements.

Key duties include architecture design, threat modeling, and governance in collaboration with client security and engineering teams. Travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity discipline.
• Minimum 2 years hands-on designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 8 years end-to-end security delivery ownership in a client-embedded or production environment.
• Experience with Cloud security fundamentals across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools in daily practice.
• Own AI-specific threat surface management across programme scale.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across enterprise stack.
• Lead AI governance framework implementation and related risk management.
• Shape reinvention security strategy for client leadership and commercial outcomes.
• Define reusable security patterns, playbooks, and accelerators for multiple engagements.
• Lead architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops.
• Provide cybersecurity domain expertise in at least one discipline.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

AI/ML security

Leadership

Client communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

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GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to work embedded with client teams, delivering production‑level AI security capabilities. You will own outcomes such as reduced attack surface, production‑safe AI deployments, and measurable security posture improvements.

Key duties include architecture design, threat modeling, and governance in collaboration with client security and engineering teams. Travel may be required.