Production AI Security Engineer with Threat Modeling

Accenture; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Security seeks a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, owning outcomes for secure, governed, and resilient AI deployments in real environments.

You will lead AI security architecture, threat modeling, and hands-on engineering using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, delivering secure AI tooling and governance frameworks across cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of engineering experience in production environments with cybersecurity depth in at least one area.
• 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 experience in a client-embedded or production environment.
• Minimum 6 years working with Cloud platform security fundamentals (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (12 years minimum).

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production deployments.
• 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 (EU AI Act, NIST RMF).
• 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

Security engineering

Communication of security risk

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security seeks a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, owning outcomes for secure, governed, and resilient AI deployments in real environments.

You will lead AI security architecture, threat modeling, and hands-on engineering using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, delivering secure AI tooling and governance frameworks across cloud platforms.