Senior Applied AI Engineer: Claude & Codex Architect

Accenture; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 87,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life, and 1+2

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior Applied AI Engineer to help large enterprises evaluate and adopt Claude and Codex in Scottsdale, AZ. This onsite role acts as a pre-sales architect and technical advisor, partnering across sales, product, and engineering to move from discovery to deployment with emphasis on safety and reliability.

You will build evaluation frameworks, translate customer requirements into scalable technical solutions, and create technical content for engineering teams, executives,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 12+ years work experience.
• Minimum 5 years in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager.
• Minimum 3 years leading a team or contributing to team management, preferably in AI-driven project environments.
• Minimum 3 years of AI engineering experience building applications or products, with understanding of fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical advisor to enterprise customers through Claude adoption journey, coordinating across teams and stakeholders.
• Develop evaluation frameworks (evals) to measure Claude performance for specific use cases, using advanced evaluation methodologies and code reviews to address robustness, safety, fairness, and minimized hallucination risk.
• Define, evaluate, and optimize AI system architectures using relevant frameworks and best practices, and guide integration into existing technology stacks.
• Build, support, and maintain scalable machine learning infrastructure, including distributed training pipelines and integration with APIs and tools.
• Document technical architecture, methodologies, and innovations for knowledge transfer and continuous improvement.
• Identify common integration patterns and share insights with Accenture’s Product and Engineering teams.
• Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities and implementation patterns.

Skills

Claude/Codex

Team leadership

Solutions Architect

AI engineering

Python

Java

C

Go

Prompt engineering

Fine-tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (12+ years)

Tools

CI/CD

Distributed training

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior Applied AI Engineer to help large enterprises evaluate and adopt Claude and Codex in Scottsdale, AZ. This onsite role acts as a pre-sales architect and technical advisor, partnering across sales, product, and engineering to move from discovery to deployment with emphasis on safety and reliability.

You will build evaluation frameworks, translate customer requirements into scalable technical solutions, and create technical content for engineering teams, executives,