AI / Forward Deployed Engineer
AccentureAccenture Technology powers our clients to achieve high performance. We combine business and industry insights with innovative technology to drive growth for your business. We extend our technology and business capabilities through a powerful alliance ecosystem of market leaders and innovators to provide our clients the best specialized skills and tailored solutions.
We are seeking a highly qualified professional to join our team as an AI / Forward Deployed Engineer (multiple seniority levels). This role supports an Accenture client context, working on a global-market AI product already deployed across multiple geographies. You will work close to customers, product, engineering, architecture, and delivery teams to translate business needs into robust solutions through configuration, integration, adaptation, and continuous improvement. We are hiring profiles with 1 to 6 years of experience (from early-career to senior contributors who can guide others).
Qualifications
2–6 years of experience in technology projects (application development, implementation, systems integration, or client-facing delivery)
Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Data Science, or similar field (or equivalent practical experience)
Experience or exposure to AI-enabled platforms, digital solution implementation, or automation projects
Solid understanding of APIs and system integration, including REST, common integration patterns, and enterprise workflows
Practical programming skills in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills; comfortable collaborating with cross-functional and multicultural teams
Interest in and/or experience with Generative AI, including LLMs, and AI-enabled components (automation, agents)
Responsibilities
Understand the product’s capabilities, limitations, configuration options, and extension points
Analyze functional and technical requirements with customer and delivery teams and translate them into implementable solutions
Configure, adapt, and implement AI-enabled solutions aligned to specific customer use cases
Design and support integrations between the platform and enterprise systems using APIs, authentication/authorization, and secure integration practices
Participate in technical solution design to ensure alignment with customer architecture and operational constraints
Implement and support flows, automations, agentic components, tool calling/function calling, and other AI-enabled platform features
Test, validate, debug, and optimize solutions to meet quality, reliability, and performance requirements
Apply AI knowledge (where applicable) including LLM, Speech-to-Text (STT), and Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities to support customer needs
Contribute to reusable assets, implementation patterns, best practices, and technical documentation
Identify opportunities to improve platform usage and consistency across multiple geographies/markets
For more senior profiles (typically 3–6 years): lead or co-lead use case analysis, assess trade-offs (latency/quality/cost/scalability), identify risks and mitigations, and support junior engineers in problem-solving
Nice to Have
Familiarity with different market LLMs/providers, their strengths/limitations, and evaluation approaches
Knowledge of prompting techniques, prompt testing, and prompt evaluation methods
Exposure to agentic frameworks, multi-agent patterns, MCP/tool-use concepts, or orchestration approaches
Experience with SaaS platforms, cloud environments, or enterprise architectures
Exposure to observability/logging/debugging tools and troubleshooting in production-like environments
Experience working on client-facing initiatives or in international/multi-geography contexts
Familiarity with STT/TTS considerations (quality, latency, language support, multilingual requirements)
Additional Information
Location: Coimbra
Working Model: Hybrid
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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