Production AI Security Engineer — Forward-Deployed

Accenture; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 291,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Security engineers a forward deployed model to secure AI in production. This role embeds with a client's security and engineering teams to reduce attack surfaces and strengthen governance of agentic AI deployments.

The Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer leads security architecture, threat modeling, and hands-on security tooling using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, delivering measurable security posture improvements in complex environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years engineering experience in production with cybersecurity depth.
• 1 year hands-on in agentic AI solutions in production.
• 6+ years end-to-end security delivery ownership in client/production.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools.
• Own AI threat surface management across program scale.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Agentic AI security

Cloud security

IAM security

Education

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent)

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security engineers a forward deployed model to secure AI in production. This role embeds with a client's security and engineering teams to reduce attack surfaces and strengthen governance of agentic AI deployments.

The Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer leads security architecture, threat modeling, and hands-on security tooling using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, delivering measurable security posture improvements in complex environments.