Cybersecurity AI Forward Deployed Engineer Manager
Accenture
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This role pays less than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $146,450–$214,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $153k versus about $180k for comparable roles.
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Accenture is a leading global professional services company specializing in IT, strategy, consulting, and operations, with a strong focus on digital transformation, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.
Accenture currently has 192 open roles on FindRole.
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Cybersecurity AI Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE - Consultant As part of the Reinvention Delivery Engine pod, this role functions as a production engineer embedded within client organizations to secure, govern, and harden AI systems in complex environments. You will build security tooling, detection systems, threat models, and governance frameworks while managing risks like prompt injection and model extraction across LLM systems, RAG architectures, and MLOps infrastructure. The core methodology for this role is agentic coding; you must use Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot as your primary development environment to co-author code and automate security controls. You will navigate cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP to manage identity, network security, and data pipelines. Your work addresses the technical challenge of securing production-grade AI deployments while ensuring compliance with frameworks like the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF.
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