21 hours ago
Cheltenham, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Configure, evaluate, and tune LLMs for cybersecurity use cases, including prompt engineering, RAG, and tool/function calling.
- Design, build, maintain, and operationalize AI agents and agentic workflows integrated with SOAR, SIEM, and EDR tooling.
- Implement safeguards against adversarial inputs such as prompt injection and jailbreaks.
- Architect scalable, modular AI solutions using secure development principles.
- Implement AI governance controls covering data handling, audit logging, human-in-the-loop processes, and regulatory compliance.
- Monitor and optimize LLM API and infrastructure costs using caching, model tiering, and guardrails.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify operational problems, prototype solutions, and iterate based on feedback.
- Produce technical documentation for ongoing management of developed capabilities.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of AI/ML engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents or LLM-powered applications in production, including observability and evaluation mechanisms.
- Practical experience with enterprise AI platforms such as Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock, or Google Vertex AI.
- Strong understanding of LLM concepts, vector databases, context windows, temperature and sampling parameters, system prompts, and tool/function calling.
- Experience implementing end-to-end RAG pipelines, including data ingestion, chunking, embedding model selection, and retrieval tuning.
- Experience implementing parsing pipelines for document processing and unstructured data ingestion.
- Knowledge of AI security risks, including the OWASP LLM Top 10, and their mitigations.
- Experience working within enterprise governance frameworks.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python and familiarity with common AI/ML libraries.
- Ability to build custom tools that interact with or are exposed to LLMs.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs and experience integrating AI solutions with third-party platforms and internal tooling.
- Infrastructure-as-code deployment experience is advantageous.
- Knowledge of enterprise security tooling such as SOAR, SIEM, and EDR is advantageous.
- Collaborative, self-motivated, pragmatic, results-focused, and able to manage conflicting deadlines and priorities.
Benefits
- Hybrid working in Cheltenham with office attendance twice per month.
- Employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance, requiring five years of continuous UK address history at the point of application.
- Accenture states a commitment to equal employment opportunity and a diverse, highly skilled workforce.
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About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services firm providing management consulting, systems integration and technology, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing for enterprises and governments. It operates a services-driven model delivering projects and managed services, often with major cloud and software partners, across industries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin and publicly traded on the NYSE (ACN), it originated as Andersen Consulting and adopted the Accenture name in 2001.