Senior AI Security Engineer Lead — Embedded, Production-Ready

Accenture; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Paid holidays & Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is hiring a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to work embedded with client security and engineering teams, delivering production‑level AI security, governance, and threat modeling capabilities. You will own outcomes like reduced attack surface and secure AI deployments, using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot in daily practice.

Role operates within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, focusing on end‑to‑end security delivery, architecture, risk management, and executive

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments—LLM systems, multi-agent pipelines, RAG architectures, and MLOps infrastructure—owning the full security design from assessment through hardened deployment
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment: build AI-powered detection systems, automated threat response tooling, security assessment frameworks, and governance automation using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot in daily delivery practice
• 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 across concurrent client workstreams
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack: identity and access for AI systems, data pipeline security, model serving security, and multi-system integration risk across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Lead AI governance framework implementation: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and model risk management applied to live production systems, not theoretical compliance exercises
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISO and CTO: build risk-adjusted investment cases, security architecture roadmaps, and AI governance operating models aligned to commercial outcomes
• Define and publish reusable security patterns, playbooks, and accelerators that scale across multiple client engagements and grow the Secure AI practice
• Lead architecture design sessions, threat modeling workshops, and code-with sessions with client engineering and security leadership teams
• Cybersecurity domain expertise in at least one discipline (AppSec, SecOps, IAM, cloud, GRC, or offensive security)
• Proposal and SOW development, solution shaping, and client commercial engagement
• Executive workshop facilitation and C-suite / CISO-level communication
• Structured analytical thinking and hypothesis-driven problem decomposition
• Team leadership: developing and coaching managers and consultants through delivery
• Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Agentic AI security

Communication with executives

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture is hiring a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to work embedded with client security and engineering teams, delivering production‑level AI security, governance, and threat modeling capabilities. You will own outcomes like reduced attack surface and secure AI deployments, using Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot in daily practice.

Role operates within Accenture’s Reinvention Delivery Engine, focusing on end‑to‑end security delivery, architecture, risk management, and executive