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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

AI Native Software Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$80.4k - $316.3k/yr+ Bonus opportunities
Senior
Bachelor's, Associate's
Boston, MA, USA+42 moreMore locations: Seattle, WA, USA | Orlando, FL, USA | Houston, TX, USA | Des Moines, IA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Detroit, MI, USA | Cleveland, OH, USA | Bentonville, AR, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | Miami, FL, USA | Morristown, NJ, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Raleigh, NC, USA | Redmond, WA, USA | Philadelphia, PA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Charlotte, NC, USA | Arlington County, Arlington, VA, USA | St. Louis, MO, USA | Milwaukee, WI, USA | Carmel, IN, USA | Beaverton, OR, USA | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Sacramento, CA, USA | Walnut Creek, CA, USA | Kirkland, WA, USA | Albany, NY, USA | Scottsdale, AZ, USA | Columbus, OH, USA | Hartford, CT, USA | Oklahoma City, OK, USA | New York, NY, USA | Minneapolis, MN, USA | Denver, CO, USA | Mountain View, CA, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA | San Diego, CA, USA | St. Petersburg, FL, USA | Cincinnati, OH, USA | Overland Park, KS, USA
HybridHybrid work at one of the listed offices; travel may range from 25% to 75% depending on business need and client requirements.
Software EngineeringAI Application Engineering, Full-Stack Engineering
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • A minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
  • A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience across multiple layers of the stack, including front end or API through services, integration, persistence, and asynchronous processing.
  • A minimum of 5 years of programming experience in at least one major language such as Java, Python, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, or C#.
  • A minimum of 5 years of hands-on production experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, or equivalent).
  • A minimum of 5 years of experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines through to production, including automated testing and integrated security controls.
  • A minimum of 1 year of hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying AI-enabled or agentic systems in production or near-production environments, including model integration, tool use, retrieval, context engineering, orchestration, and evaluation.
  • A minimum of 1 year of experience applying AI-native engineering tools and workflows to day-to-day software development, including code generation, automated testing, debugging, modernization, and documentation.
  • A minimum of 5 years of experience leading engineering teams or significant technical workstreams, including leading client-facing technical discussions, workshops, or delivery sessions under ambiguity.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent, or equivalent work experience of at least 12 years. With an associate's degree, at least 6 years of work experience is required.
Responsibilities
  • Design and build production systems across front end, APIs, backend services, integration, data, infrastructure, and AI components, making architectural decisions across these concerns together.
  • Diagnose production issues across application code, networks, infrastructure, identity, data, and AI workloads.
  • Design and deploy workloads using containers, Kubernetes, serverless, managed cloud services, and infrastructure as code such as Terraform, Helm, or equivalent, building for elasticity, resilience, and recoverability.
  • Use the native capabilities of AWS, Azure, or GCP, including cloud networking, compute, storage, identity, secrets, service communication, and workload isolation.
  • Build the automated path from commit to production, including CI/CD, automated testing, security scanning, artifact management, infrastructure deployment, policy enforcement, and release controls.
  • Apply secure-by-design practices such as identity, least privilege, secrets, encryption, dependency and supply-chain security; instrument logs, metrics, traces, and SLOs; and lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
  • Design and implement the transactional, streaming, analytical, and unstructured data flows needed by the solution across relational and non-relational stores, object storage, event platforms, and pipelines.
  • Design the data and context architecture AI systems depend on, including retrieval, embeddings, metadata, knowledge sources, and context management, with quality, lineage, access, retention, and privacy engineered in.
  • Design and implement AI capabilities using frontier and enterprise models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, AWS, and others, integrating them into live enterprise systems and production workflows.
  • Build agentic systems with tools, memory, context, planning, human intervention, and policy-controlled execution, together with evaluation frameworks, AI observability, and production safeguards.
  • Use AI-native development techniques throughout the lifecycle, including code generation, testing, debugging, modernization, documentation, analysis, and operations, and design engineering workflows in which agents can safely perform bounded development and operational tasks.
  • Continuously identify where AI materially improves engineering throughput, quality, or system operations, and establish the context, tools, permissions, evaluations, and human controls needed to make it safe.
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams across software, cloud, platform, security, data, and AI engineering; set engineering standards and develop the engineers on the team.
  • Facilitate architecture and engineering sessions with senior client technologists, and communicate trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to technical and executive audiences.
  • Convert lessons from delivery and production failures into reusable patterns, tooling, automation, and standards that influence internal assets and client roadmaps.
  • Contribute to internal communities of practice around AI-native and agentic engineering.
  • Partner directly with client technology leaders as both engineer and trusted advisor; turn ambiguous requirements into architectures, executable increments, and measurable outcomes, and bring them into production.
Desired Qualifications
  • Build multi-agent orchestrations using frameworks such as LangGraph, Crew AI, the Claude Agent SDK, or the OpenAI SDK.
  • Have a public repository, portfolio, or open-source contribution featuring agents, tools, or plugins built personally.
  • Design model and provider abstraction layers covering routing, fallback, latency, throughput, and cost management across multiple AI providers.
  • Define enterprise-grade architectures for compound AI systems, orchestration frameworks, or agent registry and stream-based architectures.
  • Hold relevant cloud, security, or AI certifications.
  • Deliver AI-native solutions across more than one industry, adapting workflows to domain-specific processes and constraints.
  • Have experience applying AI-assisted engineering to modernize an existing legacy estate.
  • Drive execution across multiple concurrent workstreams while maintaining quality, delivery, and alignment with client outcomes.

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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What believers are saying

  • Business demand grew: October 2026 results showed $74.2 billion annual revenue, up 5% in local currency.
  • Eligible US employees buy discounted stock: Accenture's purchase plan sells shares at 15% below market price.
  • Client relationships run deep: Accenture has worked with 195 of its top 200 customers for more than ten years.

What critics are saying

  • Bookings are not guaranteed revenue: most Accenture contracts let clients cancel quickly with little or no penalty.
  • Promotions require AI adoption: Accenture's CEO said in March 2026 that employees must use its tools effectively.
  • Federal hiring practices proved costly: Accenture settled discrimination allegations for $25 million in September 2026, without a liability finding.

What makes Accenture unique

  • Its AI platform switches models: AI Refinery selects among prebuilt models according to cost, performance and other requirements.
  • Accenture owns specialist Microsoft expertise: it cofounded the Microsoft-focused Avanade consultancy with the software maker.
  • Consulting includes creative agencies: Accenture Song owns businesses spanning advertising, digital product design and customer engagement.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Professional Development Budget
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match

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Accenture has capped employee AI spending at $29 (£21.75) a month after some staff ran up bills of $1,000, according to a report by 404 Media. The consulting firm wants to curb runaway costs as employees use AI for more everyday tasks. Companies are typically billed by usage, like a utility. Last week, some staff were told their access to Anthropic's Claude had been pulled entirely. Others are also reining in costs. Uber capped engineers' Claude spending at $1,500 a month after using up its AI budget in four months, while Microsoft has reportedly cut its Claude spending by about a third. The curbs come as Anthropic prepares for a public listing, targeting a valuation as high as $2tn. Investors are reportedly considering about $1.5tn.

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