Senior AI Security Engineer: Production & Governance

Accenture; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 366,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client’s security and engineering teams, delivering production-ready AI security tooling and governance. You will implement agentic AI solutions, design threat models, and drive secure AI practices across client environments.

You will work within Accenture's Reinvention Delivery Engine, leading security architecture sessions, developing code-enabled security patterns, and aligning with AI governance frameworks and

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years engineering experience in production with a cybersecurity discipline.
• 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 env.
• Minimum 8 years cloud security fundamentals across AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment.
• Own AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack.
• Lead AI governance framework implementation and client engagement.

Skills

AI security architecture

Threat modeling

Security delivery

Cloud security

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Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

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Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a client’s security and engineering teams, delivering production-ready AI security tooling and governance. You will implement agentic AI solutions, design threat models, and drive secure AI practices across client environments.

You will work within Accenture's Reinvention Delivery Engine, leading security architecture sessions, developing code-enabled security patterns, and aligning with AI governance frameworks and