Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE - Manager

Accenture is seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer to be based onsite in Walnut Creek, California. The role partners directly with client teams to secure and govern AI deployments in production, employing agentic coding to build security tooling and governance capabilities. This position leads AI security architecture, threat modeling, and governance across enterprise AI stacks in live environments, shaping how AI is safeguarded across complex client ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security architecture and threat modeling for production agentic deployments across multi-stakeholder client environments, including LLM systems, multi-agent pipelines, RAG architectures, and MLOps infrastructure, owning the security design from assessment to hardened deployment.
• Deliver hands-on security engineering using agentic coding tools as the primary build environment: 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.
• Own AI-specific threat surface management at program scale: implement OWASP LLM Top 10 controls, harden prompts to prevent injections, prevent model extraction, defend against adversarial inputs, and secure the AI supply chain across concurrent client workstreams.
• Architect and govern AI security controls across the enterprise stack: identity and access management 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: apply EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and model risk management to live production systems, not theoretical compliance exercises.
• Shape AI reinvention security strategy for client CISOs and CTOs: develop risk-adjusted investment cases, security architecture roadmaps, and AI governance operating models aligned with 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.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of engineering experience in production environments with depth in at least one cybersecurity domain (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; theoretical familiarity does not qualify.
• Minimum 6 years of end-to-end security delivery ownership in a client-embedded or production setting; internal advisory or compliance-only roles do not qualify.
• Minimum 6 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.
• Proven ability to translate security risk into business terms and present risk-adjusted investment rationale that a CISO or CFO would act on.
• People leadership experience: managing, developing, and performance-managing a team of engineers; setting individual development plans and conducting career conversations.

Technologies

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

Benefits

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

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