AI Native Software Engineering Specialist

Role Description  You build the systems that actually make AI work in enterprise environments, not demos, not prototypes that stall after a pilot, but production agentic architectures running inside real client organizations. The difference between an AI Engineer and what we are looking for is straightforward: you have shipped a multi-agent system in production, you have owned the eval harness, and you know what happens when your agent fails at 2am because you have lived it.    As an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied), you will design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems across the full enterprise technology stack. You will work directly with client engineering teams, lead technical design sessions, and build reusable patterns and accelerators that scale beyond individual engagements.    This role sits at the heart of the AI engineering talent market — demand is growing faster than supply and will continue to do so. We offer what no single product company can: breadth across every industry, every enterprise technology stack, and every level of organizational complexity, combined with vendor fellowship access inside Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google engineering teams and a direct pathway to the Forward Deployed Engineer programme.    Key Responsibilities  Design and build production-grade agentic systems end-to-end: multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, policy-based routing, tool invocation, memory management, and lifecycle observability  Build and own RAG pipelines: embeddings, chunking strategy, vector search, context window engineering and tuning against real quality targets  Integrate and abstract across multiple LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI, and open-source models — with fallback routing, token, cost, and latency management  Implement LLMOps in production: eval harnesses with real quality metrics, prompt versioning, observability tooling (LangSmith, Braintrust, or equivalent), cost and safety monitoring  Embed directly with client engineering teams to design, prototype, and deploy agentic solutions — workshops, proofs of concept, code-with sessions, and architecture walkthroughs  Build reusable patterns, accelerators, and playbooks that scale beyond the individual client engagement and enable the next one to start faster  Define and use metrics to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost-effectiveness; present findings and recommendations to client stakeholders in business terms  Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to role, level, seniority, responsibility, skillset, and level of experience. For this position, the B1 and B3 National Collective Bargaining Agreement applies, with one of the following pay grades and corresponding gross annual salary range: B1:  28,500 and 45,300 EUR B3: 32,000 and 54,900 EUR #LI-EU #LI-MP​ Basic Qualifications  Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in a production environment — non-negotiable  Demonstrated experience with agentic orchestration frameworks: LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or equivalent — at production depth, not tutorial level  Direct experience calling LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI) in production code: provider abstraction, token management, latency and cost tradeoffs  RAG pipeline ownership: embeddings, chunking strategy, vector databases, and context engineering  LLMOps fundamentals: eval harness design, prompt versioning, and production observability  Cloud-native engineering maturity: Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, serverless, CI/CD, and IaC (Terraform or Helm)  Strong Python; Java or equivalent backend language acceptable; production debugging and observability experience  Quality of experience is weighted over years, a candidate who has shipped three production agentic systems in four years is preferred over a generalist with passive AI exposure  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  Dichiarazione di pari opportunità di lavoro Crediamo che nessuno debba essere discriminato a causa delle proprie differenze. Tutte le decisioni relative all'assunzione saranno prese senza riguardo a età, razza, credo, colore della pelle, religione, sesso, origine nazionale, ascendenza, stato di disabilità, stato di veterano militare, orientamento sessuale, identità o espressione di genere, informazioni genetiche, stato civile, stato di cittadinanza o qualsiasi altra base tutelata dalla legge applicabile. La nostra ricca diversità ci rende più innovativi, più competitivi e più creativi, il che ci aiuta a servire meglio i nostri clienti e le nostre comunità.