Senior AI Security FDE Lead for Production Cyber Defense

Accenture; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture Security is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, delivering secure AI deployments and governance. You will own outcomes, reduce attack surfaces, and build production-safe AI systems with tooling like Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.

Requirements include 10+ years in engineering with cybersecurity depth and hands-on AI solution design in production. Travel varies; the role embeds inside client environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years engineering experience in production environments with cybersecurity depth
• 2+ years hands-on designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production
• 8+ years end-to-end security delivery ownership in client-embedded environments
• 8+ years working with cloud security fundamentals (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools
• Own AI-specific threat surface management at programme scale
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack
• Lead AI governance framework implementation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF)
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client executives
• Define and publish reusable security patterns and playbooks
• Lead architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops
• Provide cybersecurity domain expertise in at least one discipline
• Engage in proposal and SOW development and client engagement
• Facilitate executive workshops and CISO-level communication
• Mentor managers and consultants in delivery

Skills

Cybersecurity

Agentic AI

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Leadership

Production engineering

Cloud security

Code co-authoring

AI governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security is seeking a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams, delivering secure AI deployments and governance. You will own outcomes, reduce attack surfaces, and build production-safe AI systems with tooling like Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.

Requirements include 10+ years in engineering with cybersecurity depth and hands-on AI solution design in production. Travel varies; the role embeds inside client environments.