Production AI Security Engineer — Embedded, Agentic Coding

Accenture; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 59,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture Security seeks a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer who works embedded with client teams to secure AI systems, govern AI deployments, and reduce risk across complex environments.

You will use AI tooling as the primary delivery method, build security tooling and governance frameworks, and drive end‑to‑end security outcomes with client engineering and security leadership.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity discipline depth in at least one area (AppSec, SecOps/detection, cloud security, IAM, offensive security, or GRC).
• Minimum 1 year hands‑on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 3 years working with Cloud platform security fundamentals (IAM, network security, secrets management, AI service security) on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (12 years).

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 multiple client workstreams.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack (identity, data pipelines, model serving).
• Assist with AI governance framework implementation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF).
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO and CTO.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns and accelerators.
• Contribute to architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops.

Skills

Security risk comms

Agentic AI experience

Cloud security

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

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GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security seeks a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer who works embedded with client teams to secure AI systems, govern AI deployments, and reduce risk across complex environments.

You will use AI tooling as the primary delivery method, build security tooling and governance frameworks, and drive end‑to‑end security outcomes with client engineering and security leadership.