AI Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer Associate Manager · Databricks · Reinvention Centers

About the Role

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) are the engine for reinvention in our clients’ transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000 people across 24 countries, ATCs provide our clients with seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions.

You Are: An AI Native Engineer with strong experience building GenAI solutions and deep expertise in product ionizing AI applications on the Databricks Intelligence Platform. You thrive in customer‑facing complexity and deliver outcomes by applying the latest techniques from Mosaic AI Research, designing RAG and multi‑agent systems with Hugging Face, Lang Chain, and DSPy, and shipping production‑grade GenAI at scale on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

The Work: Embed directly with clients as both technologist and trusted advisor. Partner with stakeholders to define use cases, rapidly prototype, and deploy agentic workflows that are robust, secure, and operational in complex enterprise domains.

• Design and engineer enterprise‑ready AI agents encompassing retrieval, orchestration, policy‑based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
• Build RAG and multi‑agent systems on Databricks using Mosaic AI, Vector Search, Model Serving, and MLflow; govern data and models through Unity Catalog.
• Develop data and feature foundations on the Lakehouse (Delta Lake, DLT, Unity Catalog) that feed production AI applications.
• Tailor and deploy agentic applications across industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail.
• Conduct design workshops, proofs of concept, and code‑with sessions with client stakeholders.
• Define and use metrics to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Process large‑scale distributed datasets on the Databricks Intelligence Platform with Apache Spark™.
• Integrate LLM solutions with APIs, model monitoring, and prompt management.
• Operate MLOps / LLMOps pipelines with CI/CD across the ML and LLM lifecycle.

• Minimum 4 years of engineering experience on Databricks and large‑scale big data projects (Delta Lake, DLT, Apache Spark, Unity Catalog). Built API layers that expose data and AI/ML capabilities to enterprise systems.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Python, Java, or equivalent. Comfortable with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and observability.
• Minimum 1 year experience in designing and shipping agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 1 year experience in shipping agentic solutions in production (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) using AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, open source) and Databricks AI tooling (Mosaic AI, Vector Search, Model Serving, MLflow).
• Minimum 2 years experience in shipping to production: CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging. Practical MLOps and LLMOps experience across the ML and LLM lifecycle (model training, serving, monitoring, prompt management).
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Below are approximate ranges for selected locations.

• California $73,800 to $261,500
• Cleveland $68,300 to $209,200
• Colorado $73,800 to $225,900
• District of Columbia $78,500 to $240,600
• Illinois $68,300 to $225,900
• Maine $62,800 to $192,500
• Maryland $73,800 to $225,900
• Massachusetts $73,800 to $240,600
• Minnesota $73,800 to $225,900
• New York $68,300 to $261,500
• New Jersey $78,500 to $261,500
• Virginia $68,300 to $240,600
• Washington $80,200 to $240,600

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long‑term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

This is a hybrid role in Dallas, TX and requires 3 days per week in the office. May consider qualified applicants in Columbus, OH;
Tampa, FL;
Atlanta, GA;
Houston, TX.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of…