Senior AI Security Architect & Forward-Deployed Engineer

Accenture; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 130,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Long-term disability

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to work embedded with a client’s security and engineering teams, delivering production-grade AI security, governance, and resilience. You will own outcomes like reduced attack surface and measurable security posture improvement.

You will use Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot as standard tools and collaborate across multi-stakeholder environments to lead architecture, threat modeling, and code-driven security delivery.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity discipline depth.
• Minimum 2 years hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 8 years end-to-end security delivery ownership in client-embedded or production environments.
• Minimum 8 years working with Cloud platform security fundamentals (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments—LLM systems, multi-agent pipelines, RAG, and MLOps—owning the full security design.
• 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, prompt injection hardening, model extraction prevention, adversarial input defences, and AI supply chain security.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack: IAM, data pipeline security, model serving security, and multi-system integration risk.
• Lead AI governance framework implementation: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and model risk management for live production systems.
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO/CTO: build risk-adjusted investment cases and roadmaps.
• Define reusable security patterns, playbooks, and accelerators across client engagements.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Agentic AI

Cloud security

IAM

GRC

Risk communication

People leadership

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 with a client’s security and engineering teams, delivering production-grade AI security, governance, and resilience. You will own outcomes like reduced attack surface and measurable security posture improvement.

You will use Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot as standard tools and collaborate across multi-stakeholder environments to lead architecture, threat modeling, and code-driven security delivery.