Production AI Security Engineer: Forward-Deployed

Accenture; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer in California to embed with a client’s security and engineering teams. You will own outcomes: reduce attack surface, enable production-safe AI deployments, and improve security posture across complex environments.

You will build security tooling and governance frameworks using AI co-authoring, participate in threat modeling, and lead risk‑driven security design in a fast-paced delivery pod.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity discipline depth in at least one area: AppSec, SecOps / detection engineering, cloud security, IAM, offensive security / penetration testing, or GRC
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in a production environment—non-negotiable; theoretical familiarity does not qualify
• Minimum 3 years working with Cloud platform security fundamentals across at least one provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP): IAM, network security, secrets management, and AI service security configurations
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Responsibilities

• Support AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments—LLM systems, multi-agent pipelines, RAG architectures, and MLOps infrastructure—owning the full security design from assessment through hardened deployment
• Deliver hands‑on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment: build AI‑powered detection systems, automated threat response tooling, security assessment frameworks, and governance automation using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot in daily delivery practice
• Support AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale: OWASP LLM Top 10 controls, prompt injection hardening, model extraction prevention, adversarial input defences, and AI supply chain security across concurrent client workstreams
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack: identity and access for AI systems, data pipeline security, model serving security, and multi‑system integration risk across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Assist with AI governance framework implementation: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and model risk management applied to live production systems, not theoretical compliance exercises
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO and CTO: build risk‑adjusted investment cases, security architecture roadmaps, and AI governance operating models aligned to commercial outcomes
• Define and publish reusable security patterns, playbooks, and accelerators that scale across multiple client engagements and grow the Secure AI practice
• Contribute and support architecture design sessions, threat modeling workshops, and code‑with sessions with client engineering and security leadership teams

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

Agentic AI security

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Communication of risk

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer in California to embed with a client’s security and engineering teams. You will own outcomes: reduce attack surface, enable production-safe AI deployments, and improve security posture across complex environments.

You will build security tooling and governance frameworks using AI co-authoring, participate in threat modeling, and lead risk‑driven security design in a fast-paced delivery pod.