AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager

Accenture is seeking an AI Native Engineer to design, build, and run enterprise-ready agentic AI systems for client environments. This onsite role in New York, NY focuses on embedding with clients to define use cases, prototype quickly, and deploy robust, measurable AI-native workflows that can be adopted and scaled.

What you’ll do

• Design and engineer enterprise-ready AI agents that include retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
• Build abstraction layers across AI providers such as Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI to support seamless integration and enablement.
• Use containerization and cloud-native delivery patterns, including Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures, alongside CI/CD and observability to deliver scalable systems.
• Tailor and deploy agentic applications across verticals such as finance, healthcare, and retail, applying intelligent automation to domain-specific processes.
• Run design workshops, proofs of concept, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows with stakeholders, supporting trust and adoption.
• Define and apply key metrics, test harnesses, and evaluation plans to measure accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Create reusable patterns, documentation, and best practices that influence internal assets and client roadmaps.

Required experience

• 10+ years of end-to-end software engineering experience with SDLC expertise.
• 8+ years with programming in Python, Java, or equivalent, plus familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability.
• 8+ years deploying to production, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.
• 8+ years in client communication and collaboration, including leading technical workshops and delivering under ambiguity.
• 3+ years working with cloud-native systems such as APIs, microservices, containerization, and serverless.
• 3+ years with AI platforms including OpenAI, Claude, and open-source models, including building abstraction layers for multi-provider pipelines.
• 2+ years designing and delivering Agentic AI solutions hands-on.
• 1.5+ years with semantic models, ontologies, knowledge graphs, or enterprise knowledge.
• 1.5+ years using coding agents and AI-assisted software development.
• 1+ year designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with at least 12 years of work experience (or Associate Degree plus 6 years work experience).

Technologies

• Python, Java
• Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Claude, open-source models
• Kubernetes, Docker
• Terraform, Helm
• CI/CD
• microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures
• observability, logging, monitoring, debugging
• orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, retrieval
• semantic models, ontologies, knowledge graphs, RAG, APIs
• infrastructure as code
• tooling supporting evaluation and agent observability

Compensation and benefits

Salary range: USD 122,700 - 302,400 per year. Compensation varies based on factors such as office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.

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

Bonus points if you have

• Experience as an Agentic AI Engineer in an enterprise environment
• Additional AI certifications or agentic tool experience
• Experience 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 systems with generative model architectures to optimize for performance, modularity, and efficiency
• Experience delivering across multiple industries such as finance and healthcare by tailoring agentic workflows to industry needs

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