Secure AI Senior Engineer — Build Secure AI in Cloud

Accenture PLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Career development

Flexible work

Job summary

Accenture seeks a Secure AI Senior Engineer to support hands-on consulting and engineering across Secure AI, AI-enabled applications, and modern cloud environments. You will work with clients and teammates to deliver secure, usable outcomes and contribute to design reviews, implementation support, and governance improvements.

In this role you will expand skills in AI development, security, cloud platforms, and secure-by-design delivery, collaborating with experienced professionals to develop

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering, ML engineering, data science, cloud engineering, security engineering, or technical consulting.
• Experience building, reviewing, or supporting modern applications or cloud-based systems (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
• Familiarity with secure development practices and common security concepts across AI, applications, infrastructure, and integrations.
• Exposure to AI, ML, Generative AI, Agentic AI, or AI-assisted development use cases.
• Familiarity with application security review, threat modelling, IAM, API security, or workload security.
• Exposure to CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerised workloads, or Kubernetes.
• Awareness of security or risk frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, CIS, MAESTRO, or similar.
• Ability to investigate technical issues, structure findings, and communicate clearly.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A practical, team-oriented approach to solving problems and delivering outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of secure AI and application security engagements for enterprise and government clients.
• Contribute to reviews of AI-enabled applications, workflows, platforms, and integrations.
• Assist in identifying risks across models, prompts, data flows, APIs, cloud services, and supporting systems.
• Help define practical recommendations to improve security, governance, and delivery controls.
• Build or configure technical controls, patterns, and supporting artefacts for secure AI implementations.
• Produce clear, high-quality client deliverables, including technical products, findings, recommendations, implementation guidance, and supporting documentation.
• Work with client stakeholders to understand their environment, priorities, and constraints.
• Contribute to reusable templates, reference patterns, and internal capability uplift across the Secure AI team.
• Collaborate across CyberCX practices where engagements span cloud, identity, application security, data, or governance domains.

Skills

Software engineering

ML engineering

Cloud engineering

Security engineering

CI/CD

Kubernetes

IAM

AI security

Threat modeling

Communication skills

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Accenture seeks a Secure AI Senior Engineer to support hands-on consulting and engineering across Secure AI, AI-enabled applications, and modern cloud environments. You will work with clients and teammates to deliver secure, usable outcomes and contribute to design reviews, implementation support, and governance improvements.

In this role you will expand skills in AI development, security, cloud platforms, and secure-by-design delivery, collaborating with experienced professionals to develop