Senior AI Security Forward-Deployed Engineer

Accenture; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 366,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks a senior Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to drive production-grade AI security within client environments. You will embed with security and engineering teams to ensure secure, governed AI deployments and measurable security posture improvements.

Role requires deep cybersecurity expertise, hands-on agentic AI solution design, and leadership in governance and risk across cloud stacks. Travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of engineering experience in production environments with a cybersecurity discipline depth in at least one area.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 8 years of end-to-end security delivery ownership in a client-embedded or production environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex client environments.
• 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 and risk management.
• Shape reinvention security strategy for client leadership and commercial outcomes.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns and accelerators.
• Lead architecture design sessions and risk workshops.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

AI governance

Leadership

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

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GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture seeks a senior Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to drive production-grade AI security within client environments. You will embed with security and engineering teams to ensure secure, governed AI deployments and measurable security posture improvements.

Role requires deep cybersecurity expertise, hands-on agentic AI solution design, and leadership in governance and risk across cloud stacks. Travel may be required.