Production-Embedded AI Security Engineer

Accenture; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to work embedded inside a client’s enterprise, driving secure AI deployments, governance, and resilient operations. You will own outcomes, delivering production-grade security tooling and threat models in collaboration with client security and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes agentic coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, and requires deep experience implementing security across AI pipelines and large-scale systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum 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.
• Minimum 1 year hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 6 years end-to-end security delivery ownership in client-embedded or production environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex client environments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment.
• Own AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale: OWASP LLM Top 10 controls and prompt injection hardening.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack: identity, data pipeline, model serving security.
• Lead AI governance framework implementation: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and model risk management in live systems.
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO/CTO and build risk-adjusted investment cases.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns and playbooks for multiple client engagements.
• Lead architecture design sessions, threat modeling workshops, and code-with sessions with client teams.

Skills

AI security

Threat modeling

Security architecture

GRC

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to work embedded inside a client’s enterprise, driving secure AI deployments, governance, and resilient operations. You will own outcomes, delivering production-grade security tooling and threat models in collaboration with client security and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes agentic coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, and requires deep experience implementing security across AI pipelines and large-scale systems.