Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Sr Analyst

About the role

We are a forward-thinking services company at the forefront of AI-native innovation, partnering with enterprise clients to create next-generation, agent-powered workflows engineered to scale in real-world settings. Our engineers embed deeply with customers, moving projects beyond experimentation into operational reality.

As an AI Native Engineer, you’ll shape how enterprises adopt AI-native engineering—either by leading complex agentic solutions and developing engineering talent, or by owning critical technical areas end-to-end as a senior individual contributor.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with client stakeholders as both technologist and trusted advisor to define use cases, rapidly prototype, and deploy agentic workflows that are robust, secure, and operational in complex enterprise domains.
• Design and build enterprise-ready AI agents incorporating retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
• Implement resilient, testable, and maintainable agentic workflows that can be iterated on quickly.
• Develop and/or extend abstraction layers across AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc.) to enable seamless integration and multi-provider enablement.
• Contribute to shared libraries, SDKs, and patterns reusable across clients.
• Leverage containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and observability stacks to deliver scalable AI-native systems.
• Own deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting for your services in production.
• Tailor and deploy agentic applications across verticals (e.g., finance, healthcare, retail), adapting to domain-specific processes and constraints.
• Work closely with client subject matter experts to translate business workflows into agentic solutions.
• Participate in and/or lead design workshops, POCs, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows with stakeholders, fostering trust and adoption.
• Communicate trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Define and use key metrics, test harnesses, and evaluation plans to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Iterate rapidly based on data, feedback, and changing requirements.
• Craft reusable patterns, documentation, and best practices that influence internal assets and client roadmaps.
• Contribute to internal communities of practice around AI-native and agentic engineering.

Travel may be required for this role, ranging from 25% to 75% depending on business need and client requirements.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• Minimum of 1 year of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production or near-production environments.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience with modern AI platforms—OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models—including building or using abstraction layers for multi-provider pipelines.
• Minimum of 3 years strong Python, Java, or equivalent experience building 12-factor applications + Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm).
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in client-facing communication and collaboration, including leading technical discussions, workshops, or delivery sessions under ambiguity.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent OR equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience).

Skills

Bonus points if you have:

• Relevant AI certifications or agentic tooling experience.
• Experience as an Agentic / AI Engineer in an enterprise environment.
• Built multi-agent orchestrations using Lang-graph, Crew AI, Claude SDK, OpenAI SDK, etc.
• A GitHub repository with agents/plugins you have created.
• Additional AI certifications or experience with agentic tooling and frameworks.
• Defined or worked with enterprise-grade architectures for compound AI systems, orchestration frameworks, or agent registry/stream-based architectures.
• Understanding of the AI-native paradigm—blending cloud-native with generative model architectures—optimizing for performance, modularity, and efficiency.
• Delivered solutions across multiple industries (e.g., finance, healthcare) by tailoring agentic workflows to industry needs.
• Driven execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring quality, delivery, and alignment with client outcomes.

Benefits

Accenture offers a market-competitive suite of benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Bonus opportunities.
• Paid holidays and paid time off.

For more details, visit U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture.

Pay

Compensation varies based on location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Below are hourly salary ranges for specific locations:

• California: $26.39 to $81.68
• Cleveland: $24.42 to $65.34
• Colorado: $26.39 to $70.58
• District of Columbia: $28.08 to $75.14
• Illinois: $24.42 to $70.58
• Maine: $22.45 to $60.10
• Maryland: $26.39 to $70.58
• Massachusetts: $26.39 to $75.14
• Minnesota: $26.39 to $70.58
• New York: $24.42 to $81.68
• New Jersey: $28.08 to $81.68
• Virginia: $24.42 to $75.14
• Washington: $28.08 to $75.14

Schedule

This job posting will remain open until 08/02/2026.