Senior AI Security Forward-Deployed Engineer

Accenture; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 133,000 - 316,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Benefits

Dental & Vision

401(k) Plan

Bonus Opportunities

Paid Holidays

PTO

Job summary

Accenture Security recruits a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams and secure AI systems across enterprise environments. You will own outcomes: reducing attack surface, enabling secure AI deployments, and improving security posture with tooling and governance frameworks.

The role requires deep production engineering experience and hands-on design of agentic AI security controls, with travel as needed for client engagements.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of engineering experience in production with a cybersecurity discipline depth in at least one area.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in a production environment—non-negotiable.
• Minimum 8 years of demonstrated end-to-end security delivery ownership experience in a client-embedded or production environment.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production 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

Skills

AI security architecture

Threat modeling

Agentic AI

Cloud security

IAM & data security

GRC

Security leadership

CISO communication

Production engineering

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Accenture Security recruits a Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with client teams and secure AI systems across enterprise environments. You will own outcomes: reducing attack surface, enabling secure AI deployments, and improving security posture with tooling and governance frameworks.

The role requires deep production engineering experience and hands-on design of agentic AI security controls, with travel as needed for client engagements.