Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE - Consultant

Based in Albany, NY, this on-site role places a production engineer inside a client’s enterprise to secure, govern, and sustain AI deployments. The position focuses on end-to-end security design, tooling, and governance delivered through focused 90-day delivery pods. Accenture provides a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities to influence Secure AI strategy across client programs.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Bonus opportunities
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off

Responsibilities

• Oversee AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments within complex, multi-stakeholder environments, covering LLM systems, multi-agent pipelines, RAG architectures, and MLOps infrastructure; own the full security design from assessment to hardened deployment.
• Execute hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment to create 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.
• Manage AI specific threat surfaces at program scale, including OWASP LLM Top 10 controls, prompt injection hardening, model extraction prevention, adversarial input defenses, and AI supply chain security across concurrent client workstreams.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack, covering identity and access for AI systems, data pipeline security, model serving security, and cross‑cloud integration risk (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Assist with AI governance framework implementation, applying EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and model risk management to live production systems rather than theoretical compliance exercises.
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISOs and CTOs by building risk-adjusted investment cases, security architecture roadmaps, and AI governance operating models aligned to business outcomes.
• Define and publish reusable security patterns, playbooks, and accelerators to scale across multiple client engagements and grow the Secure AI practice.
• Support architecture design sessions, threat modeling workshops, and code-with sessions with client engineering and security leadership teams.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of engineering experience in production environments with cybersecurity depth in at least one area: AppSec, SecOps / detection engineering, cloud security, IAM, offensive security / penetration testing, or GRC.
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production environments; theoretical familiarity does not qualify.
• Minimum 3 years working with cloud platform security fundamentals across at least one provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP): IAM, network security, secrets management, and AI service security configurations.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (minimum 12 years). If holding an Associate’s degree, a minimum of 6 years of work experience is required.

Technologies

• Claude Code
• Cursor
• GitHub Copilot
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP

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