Accenture

AI Native Software Engineer

Accenture
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20 hours ago
Braga, PortugalEntry Level

Responsibilities

  • Use AI coding assistants daily to improve engineering productivity and output quality.
  • Integrate LLM APIs into production applications while managing token limits, latency, costs, and abstraction layers.
  • Apply AI-assisted testing, debugging, code review, and prompt engineering across the software delivery lifecycle.
  • Evaluate AI-generated outputs for reliability, limitations, failure modes, and production readiness.
  • Define and track KPIs for AI-assisted workflow effectiveness and present productivity and quality metrics to stakeholders.
  • Own software delivery end-to-end from design through production support in collaboration with client engineering teams.
  • Build full-stack application layers, APIs, and interfaces connecting software systems to agentic AI backends.
  • Contribute reusable components, shared knowledge bases, and internal AI tooling standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • Commercial production software engineering experience, or equivalent experience demonstrated through academic projects, internships, or shipped personal projects.
  • Proficiency in at least one primary backend language: Python, Java, or TypeScript.
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools in day-to-day engineering work and calling LLM APIs in production code.
  • Basic understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP; Docker; and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Understanding of Agile delivery fundamentals and experience with SQL or NoSQL databases.
  • Ability to validate, evaluate, and improve AI-generated outputs and apply responsible-use judgment.
  • Familiarity with agentic system concepts, including LangChain, LangGraph, RAG pipelines, and application integration with agent-based architecture; production experience is preferred.

Benefits

  • Vendor fellowship access inside Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google engineering teams.
  • Structured AI certification pathways and a development track toward agentic and forward-deployed engineering.
  • Opportunity to work across industries, enterprise technology stacks, and organizational environments.
  • Potential pathway to the Forward Deployed Engineer program for employees who develop agentic depth.
Accenture

About Accenture

10,000+ employees

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.

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