Production AI Security Engineer: Embedded & Threat-Driven

Accenture; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 66,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision coverage

Life insurance

Long-term disability

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture 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 will own outcomes—from reduced attack surface to production‑safe AI usage—using agentic coding tools as the primary delivery method.

Role operates within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, with 90‑day cycles and end‑to‑end accountability for build, deployment, and optimization across AI platforms and cloud

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of engineering in production 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 across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (minimum 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 in daily delivery practice.
• Support AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale with OWASP LLM Top 10 controls.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack including IAM, data pipelines, and model serving.
• Assist with AI governance framework implementation including EU AI Act and NIST RMF.
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO/CTO with risk-adjusted investment roadmaps.
• Define reusable security patterns, playbooks, and accelerators for multiple client engagements.
• Contribute to architecture sessions, threat modeling workshops, and code-with sessions with client teams.

Skills

Security engineering

AI security

Threat modeling

Cloud security

Communicate risk

GRC

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (12 years)

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture 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 will own outcomes—from reduced attack surface to production‑safe AI usage—using agentic coding tools as the primary delivery method.

Role operates within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, with 90‑day cycles and end‑to‑end accountability for build, deployment, and optimization across AI platforms and cloud