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AI Led Forward Deployed Engineer | Design & Digital Products

$66.3k - $205.8k
Full-time

Accenture

You are:

As an AI led FDE , you embed with design & product teams to originate, design, and ship AI-powered digital products and experiences into production. You will build on top of enterprise data and technology foundations to create AI-powered products that face customers, employees, and business users, driving revenue, engagement, and better decisions

The work:

  • Identify where AI creates measurable business value before a brief exists. Originate use cases, prioritize by impact, and shape the engagement.
  • Differentiate through a product-led approach. Pair AI & data depth with product strategy and product thinking, so the work ladders to a real product and its outcomes, not a proof of concept.
  • Bring fluency in the design-to-product pipeline. Move from insight and concept through design, prototype, and production the way Design & Digital Products builds, connecting strategy directly to what ships.
  • Design and build AI systems end to end: RAG architecture, agentic orchestration, prompt & context engineering, evals & guardrails, tool-use patterns, and MCP integration.
  • Select the right model and approach: frontier-model selection, and when to apply fine-tuning (LoRA / PEFT) vs. prompt engineering vs. RAG, exercising judgment over execution across cost, latency, accuracy, and compliance tradeoffs.
  • Activate AI within the client's existing enterprise data platforms. Connect AI products to where the data lives using data-gravity patterns rather than re-architecting infrastructure.
  • Build AI-powered digital products and experiences full-stack, with production accountability. Ship working code, not recommendations.
  • Deploy responsibly to production: MLOps, model serving, security, and cost / latency discipline at product level, with effective monitoring.
  • Codify best-practice delivery patterns and feed field learnings back into the offering to make delivery repeatable.

Basic Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum 3 years of AI & Data experience, including solutioning, designing, or delivering AI & Data projects, with hands-on work shipping GenAI features (RAG, agentic workflows, evals and guardrails), not strategy decks alone.
  • Minimum 3 years of high-value consulting experience, including large-scale delivery with minimal oversight and proven ability to lead workstreams and meet deadlines, or relevant industry / functional experience.

Prefered Qualificaitions:

  • Hands-on delivery experience on at least one enterprise AI platform in production: AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Azure AI Foundry, or Databricks Mosaic AI.
  • Working fluency with GenAI frameworks and patterns: LangChain or LlamaIndex, agentic orchestration (CrewAI / AutoGen), MCP, prompt and context engineering, and model selection across frontier and open-weight models (Claude, Gemini, GPT, Llama, Mistral).
  • Model judgment: knows when to apply fine-tuning (LoRA / PEFT) vs. prompt engineering vs. RAG, and can reason about cost, latency, accuracy, and compliance tradeoffs.
  • Product engineering ability: full-stack build of AI-powered digital products, ships working code, and can activate AI against existing enterprise data using data-gravity patterns rather than re-architecting infrastructure.
  • Product-led mindset: connects AI & data work to product strategy and the design-to-product pipeline, and can originate use cases and shape an engagement before a brief exists.
  • Experience managing senior stakeholders.
  • Strong program management and verbal and written communication skills.
  • Driven and entrepreneurial: ability to originate and shape new deals and lead go-to-market activities.
  • Excellent leadership and people skills: proven ability to build effective teams, foster collaboration and inclusion, and build strong relationships with stakeholders / clients.


Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/27/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture


Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $70,350 to $205,800
Cleveland $59,100 to $164,600
Colorado $63,800 to $177,800
District of Columbia $68,000 to $189,300
Illinois $59,100 to $177,800
Maine $54,400 to $151,400
Maryland $63,800 to $177,800
Massachusetts $63,800 to $189,300
Minnesota $63,800 to $177,800
New York $66,300 to $205,800
New Jersey $68,000 to $205,800
Virginia $59,100 to $189,300
Washington $80,200 to $189,300

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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