Production AI Security Engineer - Forward‑Deployed

Accenture; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Security seeks a forward deployed engineer to embed with client security teams, delivering production-grade AI security tooling and governance. You will own outcomes, reduce attack surfaces, and secure AI deployments in real, complex environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, plus deep experience in threat modeling, cloud security, and risk communication across enterprise stacks. This is a high-impact, embedded role.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of engineering experience with cybersecurity depth in at least one area.
• Minimum 1 year of hands‑on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 3 years working with Cloud platform security fundamentals (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience (12 years).

Responsibilities

• Support AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments.
• Deliver hands‑on security engineering using agentic coding tools.
• Support AI‑specific threat surface management at programme scale.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack.
• Assist with AI governance framework implementation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF).
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client leadership.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns and accelerators.
• Contribute to architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops.

Skills

Agentic coding

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Cloud security

Communication of risk

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security seeks a forward deployed engineer to embed with client security teams, delivering production-grade AI security tooling and governance. You will own outcomes, reduce attack surfaces, and secure AI deployments in real, complex environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, plus deep experience in threat modeling, cloud security, and risk communication across enterprise stacks. This is a high-impact, embedded role.