Production AI Security Engineer — Forward-Deployed

Accenture; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 316,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is recruiting a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed security inside client AI programs, delivering production-ready AI security tooling, governance, and risk management. The role emphasizes hands-on security engineering and real-world threat modeling across multi-stakeholder environments.

You will work within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, delivering end-to-end security across build, deploy, and optimize cycles with clients. Travel may be required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience in production environments with cybersecurity depth in at least one area (AppSec, SecOps, cloud security, IAM, offensive security, or GRC)
• At least 1 year hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production
• 6+ years end-to-end security delivery ownership in client-embedded or production environments
• 6+ years working with cloud platform security fundamentals (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex environments
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools
• Own AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack
• Lead AI governance framework implementation and risk management
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client leadership
• Define and publish reusable security patterns and accelerators
• Lead architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops

Skills

AI security architecture

Threat modeling

Agentic coding

Security engineering

Security risk communication

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

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GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture is recruiting a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed security inside client AI programs, delivering production-ready AI security tooling, governance, and risk management. The role emphasizes hands-on security engineering and real-world threat modeling across multi-stakeholder environments.

You will work within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, delivering end-to-end security across build, deploy, and optimize cycles with clients. Travel may be required.