AI & Emerging technologies

AI Engineer

Accenture

Manchester · Greater Manchester · United Kingdom

Overview

In this AI Engineer role, you will advance Accenture’s SOC capabilities by building and tuning AI-powered workflows and LLM-based applications. You will collaborate with security engineers and SOC analysts to deploy production-ready solutions that integrate with existing tooling. The position focuses on scalable, secure AI designs, governance, and cost-aware deployment in a security-sensitive environment. This is a hands-on, impact-focused role shaping defensive cyber operations with cutting-edge AI.

Responsibilities
  • Configure, evaluate and tune LLMs for security use cases (prompt engineering, system prompts, RAG, tool calls)
  • Design, build and maintain AI agents and agentic workflows with platforms like Azure AI Foundry, integrating with SOAR/SIEM/EDR
  • Implement safeguards against adversarial inputs and ensure robust security standards
  • Architect modular, scalable AI solutions following secure development principles
  • Align implementations with AI governance framework (data handling, audit logging, human-in-the-loop, compliance)
  • Monitor and optimize LLM API usage and infrastructure costs (caching, tiering, guardrails)
  • Collaborate with security engineers and SOC analysts to prototype and iterate
  • Produce clear technical documentation for ongoing management
Key requirements
  • 2+ years in AI/ML engineering
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents or LLM-powered apps in production with observability and evaluation
  • Experience with enterprise AI platforms (Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI or similar)
  • Solid understanding of LLM concepts and vector databases (context windows, temperature, prompts, tool calls)
  • Experience implementing end-to-end RAG pipelines (data ingestion, chunking, embeddings, retrieval tuning)
  • Experience parsing and ingesting unstructured data into pipelines
  • Knowledge of AI security risks including OWASP LLM Top 10 and mitigations
  • Experience working within enterprise governance frameworks
  • Proficiency in Python and familiarity with AI/ML libraries
  • Ability to build tools that interface with LLMs and use REST APIs for integration
  • Strong focus on security, governance and compliance
  • collaborative problem-solving
  • self-motivated and pragmatic
  • ability to manage competing priorities
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Google Vertex AI

Reference: WJ-747_31164256

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