Senior AI Deployment Leader (Forward-Deployed Engineering)

Accenture; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 123,000 - 366,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is hiring Forward Deployed AI Engineers who embed inside client teams to operationalize AI platforms. You will own outcomes such as adoption, reliability, and time-to-value, across complex enterprise environments including multi-vendor AI stacks.

You will work with executive stakeholders to define value architecture and drive scalable AI reinvention across industries, with travel as needed to meet business requirements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• 1+ year designing and deploying agentic solutions in production.
• 2+ years experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI) and multi-provider pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across client environments.
• Own program-level delivery outcomes including time-to-value and scalability.
• Drive rapid experimentation to production-ready systems.
• Architect and govern AI solutions across identity, data, security, and integration stacks.
• Shape reinvention strategy for client stakeholders and develop adoption roadmaps.

Skills

Cloud-native systems

Agentic AI

Python/Java

Production deployment

Client collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

OpenAI

Claude

Vertex AI

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Accenture is hiring Forward Deployed AI Engineers who embed inside client teams to operationalize AI platforms. You will own outcomes such as adoption, reliability, and time-to-value, across complex enterprise environments including multi-vendor AI stacks.

You will work with executive stakeholders to define value architecture and drive scalable AI reinvention across industries, with travel as needed to meet business requirements.