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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Rovo & AI Prompt Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026Deadline 11/30/26
$80.4k - $266.3k/yr+ Bonus opportunities
Senior
Bachelor's, Associate's
United States
HybridHybrid roles at listed U.S. office locations; travel may vary from 0% to 100% based on business and client needs.
Software EngineeringAI Application Engineering
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • At least five years of experience in a technical role involving AI/ML systems, natural language processing, conversational AI, or knowledge management, including at least two years working directly with large language models.
  • At least two years of hands-on prompt engineering experience, including designing, testing, and iterating prompts for enterprise use cases across one or more large language model platforms such as OpenAI or Anthropic.
  • At least two years of experience helping enterprise clients design, adopt, or govern AI-powered tools, knowledge systems, or automation workflows.
  • At least two years of experience building or configuring AI agents, virtual assistants, or chatbot experiences, including tool use, knowledge grounding, and persona design.
  • At least two years of experience with knowledge management systems such as Confluence or SharePoint, and ability to curate and structure enterprise content to improve AI output quality.
  • At least two years of experience evaluating AI system performance, identifying failure modes, and driving iterative improvement through structured testing and stakeholder feedback.
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent, or at least 12 years of work experience. Applicants with an associate's degree must have at least six years of work experience.
Responsibilities
  • Design enterprise AI prompts and conversational experiences.
  • Develop and maintain Atlassian Rovo agents.
  • Build AI-powered knowledge assistants and workflow automations.
  • Curate enterprise knowledge to improve AI-generated responses.
  • Establish prompt libraries, standards, and governance processes.
  • Evaluate and optimize AI performance using quantitative and qualitative metrics.
  • Collaborate with product owners, solution architects, AI engineers, and business stakeholders.
  • Promote AI adoption and prompt engineering best practices across the organization.
Desired Qualifications
  • Hands-on experience with Atlassian Rovo, including agent configuration, knowledge connector setup, action and tool integration, and conversation design.
  • Familiarity with Atlassian Intelligence features across Jira, Confluence, and JSM, and how they interact with Rovo agents and enterprise knowledge.
  • Experience designing Rovo agent personas, scoping knowledge access, and establishing behavioral guardrails appropriate for enterprise deployment.
  • Ability to integrate Rovo agents with enterprise workflows via Atlassian automation, APIs, or third-party connectors.
  • Advanced proficiency in prompt engineering techniques including chain-of-thought reasoning, few-shot and zero-shot prompting, role prompting, structured output formatting, and retrieval-augmented generation patterns.
  • Ability to design prompts that are robust to input variation, resistant to prompt injection, and aligned to enterprise governance requirements.
  • Experience with systematic prompt evaluation, including A/B testing, rubric-based scoring, and automated regression testing for prompt quality.
  • Familiarity with token economics, context window management, and latency and cost tradeoffs in production large language model deployments.
  • Working knowledge of model differences across leading large language model providers and ability to select or recommend appropriate models for specific enterprise use cases.
  • Experience auditing, structuring, and curating enterprise knowledge bases such as Confluence to improve AI retrieval accuracy and reduce hallucination risk.
  • Ability to establish and maintain prompt governance frameworks, including versioning, change control, approval workflows, and usage monitoring.
  • Familiarity with AI safety, responsible AI principles, and enterprise compliance requirements as they apply to large language model-powered applications.
  • Experience defining and tracking AI performance key performance indicators, including response quality scores, deflection rates, task completion rates, and user satisfaction.
  • Ability to facilitate AI discovery workshops with business stakeholders to surface use cases, prioritize opportunities, and define measurable success criteria.
  • Experience developing prompt engineering playbooks, usage guidelines, and training materials to scale AI literacy across non-technical teams.

About the company

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Dublin, Ireland

Founded

1989

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  • Business demand grew: October 2026 results showed $74.2 billion annual revenue, up 5% in local currency.
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  • Health Insurance
  • Professional Development Budget
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match

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