Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Production Systems

Accenture PLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied) to design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems across the enterprise tech stack. You will work directly with client engineering teams, lead technical design sessions, and build reusable patterns that scale beyond engagements.

This role sits at the heart of the AI engineering talent market, offering breadth across industries and leading with governance, cost controls, and observability.

Qualifications

• Significant years of software engineering experience in production environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Production depth with agentic orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen) or equivalent.
• Direct experience calling LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI) in production code.
• RAG pipeline ownership: embeddings, chunking, vector databases, context engineering.
• LLMOps fundamentals: eval harness design, prompt versioning, production observability.
• Cloud-native engineering maturity: Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, serverless, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform or Helm).
• Strong Python; Java or equivalent backend language; production debugging and observability.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern production-grade agentic systems at enterprise scale across environments.
• Define RAG pipeline standards and embedding strategies; set quality benchmarks.
• Set multi-LLM integration standards across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI, open-source).
• Own LLMOps at programme scale: eval strategy, prompt governance, observability, cost controls.
• Lead client engineering engagements at senior level; facilitate architecture design sessions and PoCs.
• Publish reusable patterns, accelerators, and standards to scale across engagements.
• Define measurement framework for agentic system quality and present AI impact to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Production software engineering

Agentic AI design

Python

Backend engineering

Observability

Production debugging

Client engagement at senior level

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

microservices

serverless

CI/CD

Terraform / Helm (IaC)

LangGraph / CrewAI / AutoGen

OpenAI / Anthropic / Vertex AI APIs

Job description

Accenture is seeking an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied) to design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems across the enterprise tech stack. You will work directly with client engineering teams, lead technical design sessions, and build reusable patterns that scale beyond engagements.

This role sits at the heart of the AI engineering talent market, offering breadth across industries and leading with governance, cost controls, and observability.