Cybersecurity AI Forward Deployed Engineer Manager

Accenture

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TL;DR · Cybersecurity AI Forward Deployed Engineer Manager

JOB TITLE: Cybersecurity AI Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE - Manager The Cybersecurity AI Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE - Manager joins the Reinvention Delivery Engine Pod to secure production AI systems within complex client environments. This production engineering role involves building security tooling, detection systems, and governance frameworks while managing a team of engineers. You will lead AI security architecture, threat modeling, and hardening for LLM systems, multi-agent pipelines, RAG architectures, and MLOps infrastructure. Daily work requires using agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot to deliver automated threat response and prompt injection hardening. You must navigate cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP to manage identity, data pipelines, and model serving security. The role addresses technical challenges like OWASP LLM Top 10 controls, adversarial input defenses, and AI supply chain security.

What you'll do

  • Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across complex multi-stakeholder environments.
  • Build AI-powered detection systems, automated threat response tooling, and governance automation using agentic coding tools like Claude Code or Cursor.
  • Manage AI-specific threat surfaces including OWASP LLM Top 10 controls, prompt injection hardening, and model extraction prevention.
  • Architect and govern enterprise AI security controls for identity, data pipelines, and model serving across cloud platforms.
  • Implement AI governance frameworks such as the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF on live production systems.
  • Develop risk-adjusted investment cases and security architecture roadmaps for client CISO and CTO leadership.
  • Define and publish reusable security patterns, playbooks, and accelerators to scale across multiple client engagements.
  • Lead architecture design sessions and threat modeling workshops with client engineering and security leadership teams.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum of 8 years of engineering experience in production environments with cybersecurity depth in AppSec, SecOps, cloud security, IAM, offensive security, or GRC.
  • Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in a production environment.
  • Minimum 6 years of demonstrated end-to-end security delivery ownership experience in a client-embedded or production environment.
  • Minimum 6 years of experience with cloud platform security fundamentals across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years work experience; 6 years if Associate's Degree).
  • Proven ability to communicate security risk in business terms to CISO or CFO stakeholders.
  • Experience managing, developing, and performance-managing a team of engineers.
  • Ability to travel from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

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