Production AI Security Engineer (Forward-Deployed)

Accenture; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, delivering production-grade AI security, governance, and resilient deployments. You will own outcomes—reducing attack surfaces and improving security posture through hands-on development with AI tooling and threat modeling.

The role emphasizes security design, threat modeling, and governance across cloud platforms, with travel as needed. Strong leadership and client-facing capabilities are required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience in production environments with cybersecurity depth.
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 6 years of end-to-end security delivery ownership in client-embedded or production environments.
• Minimum 6 years working with Cloud platform security fundamentals (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (12 years).

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools in daily delivery practice.
• Own AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale across client environments.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack (IAM, data, model serving).
• Lead AI governance framework implementation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF).
• Shape reinvention security strategy for client leadership and build risk-based investment cases.

Skills

8+ years exp

Agentic AI design

Security delivery

Cloud security

Security risk comms

People leadership

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Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

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Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, delivering production-grade AI security, governance, and resilient deployments. You will own outcomes—reducing attack surfaces and improving security posture through hands-on development with AI tooling and threat modeling.

The role emphasizes security design, threat modeling, and governance across cloud platforms, with travel as needed. Strong leadership and client-facing capabilities are required.