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Posted Date 4/10/2026
Description
We are:
A leading partner to the world’s major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google. The formation of Accenture Cloud First, with a $3 billion investment over three years, demonstrates our commitment to deliver greater value to our clients when they need it most and offers huge growth opportunities for you! Our Cloud First group of more than 70,000 cloud professionals delivers a full stack of integrated cloud capabilities across data, edge, integrated infrastructure and applications, deep ecosystem skills, culture of change along with a deep industry expertise to shape, move, build and operate our clients’ businesses in the cloud. To accelerate our customers transformation leveraging cloud, we combine world\-class learning and talent development expertise; deep experience in cloud change management; and cloud\-ready operating models with a commitment to responsible business by design — with security, data privacy, responsible use of artificial intelligence, sustainability and ethics and compliance built into the fundamental changes Accenture helps companies achieve.
About the Role: Building the Future in the Age of Agents
Join the elite technical and product engine of the Accenture Google Business Group (AGBG). We are not a traditional project delivery organization; we are a practice of innovators and builders guiding our clients through the most significant shift in technology: the move to Agentic AI and Product\-Led Operating Models. As a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Agentic AI Delivery Engineer, you are a new breed of technologist—a "product\-minded engineer" who is as fluent in the language of code as you are in the language of customer outcomes. You don't just build solutions; you leverage the best of technologies Google Cloud has to offer for client requirements, helping clients break free from legacy solution mindset and practices to build truly modern, value\-driven software products on Google Cloud.
You Are:
A passionate, hands\-on GCP specialist/practitioner who understands that great software is not just about elegant code, but about solving real problems leveraging the best technology tools available for a client. You are as comfortable building a multi\-agent workflow on Vertex AI as you are testing a solution built by other team members in a compressed timeline, leveraging the various tools and technologies of Google Cloud. You have a consultative mindset and a deep curiosity to understand the "why" behind a client's business requirements and convert them to an optimal technology solution. You are an evangelist for modern ways of working, grounded in the principles of Product\-Led engineering and operating models and related approaches. You are an exceptional communicator, great team player, continuous learner and a true believer in continual change.
The Work:
As a GCP Agentic AI Delivery Engineer, you will be a technical and product\-centric engineer in consulting and engineering projects, customizing Google Cloud Agentic solutions for client requirements. You will partner with Accenture's global delivery teams by providing superior technical expertise and product innovation skills. Your role is to execute complex technology solutions for our clients by designing, building, and demonstrating Agentic AI solutions. You will act as a trusted team player, guiding others in the team on how to adopt a Product Engineering mindset and be the expert on specific Google Cloud technologies/products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Outcome\-Driven Design and Build: Actively participate in technical discovery workshops to translate client business requirements into GCP technology design elements and customized solutions. Design, build, test and deploy innovative, agentic\-first solutions on GCP that are directly tied to the client business requirements.
- Hands\-On Development \& Proof\-of\-Value: Rapidly design, build, and present compelling proof\-of\-concept (POC) solutions that bring your Google Cloud proficiency to workable solutions. This includes hands\-on software engineering using Vertex AI, Gemini/Agentic AI, BigQuery, Google Data technologies, Terraform, and modern CI/CD practices.
- Product\-Led Project delivery: Act as an agile SME/coach on modern software development. Guide and enable the delivery team on the principles of the Product Agile Operating Model and how to structure delivery sprints for continuous delivery using Google Cloud Technologies.
- Team Collaboration: Ability to travel as needed for project meetings, workshops, client discussions, etc., Working with global teams and leveraging the various collaborative tools and channels for project delivery and status reporting.
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.
Here's what you need
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a hands\-on, client\-facing technology role (e.g., Google Cloud Engineer, Product Engineer, Technology Consultant).
- Minimum of 3 years of deep, hands\-on experience architecting and building solutions on GCP.
- Minimum of 2 years of proven experience with Application Modernization, Call Center AI and/or Agentic AI solutions leveraging Google Cloud technologies.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience interacting with project team members distributed across the globe. Well versed in project management methodologies and product/project testing methodologies.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience).
Bonus points if you have
- Product \& Agile Mindset: Hands\-on experience working within a Product Operating Model. Practical experience in delivering agile projects, contributing to sprint\-based deliverables and outcomes.
- Consulting \& Innovation Acumen: Experience participating in client\-facing innovation workshops and converting ideas into outcome\-focused solutions. World\-class communication skills to articulate project status and delivery challenges and issues to project leadership and client audiences.
- Agentic AI \& Software Product Engineering: Proven experience architecting and building agentic workflows using Vertex AI. Deep understanding of agentic components, including reasoning engines, planning, tool use, and Retrieval\-Augmented Generation (RAG). Hands\-on expertise with Google's Gemini models. A commitment to software engineering best practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and building secure, scalable products.
- Technical Depth: Google Cloud Professional certifications (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Professional Data Engineer, GenAI Leader). Project experience across the GCP ecosystem, including GKE, BigQuery, Vertex AI, CES, Apigee, and other GCP technologies.
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We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 07/31/2026\.
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. See more information on our benefits here:
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California $70,350 to $196,000
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Colorado $63,800 to $169,300
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Illinois $59,100 to $169,300
Maine $54,400 to $144,300
Maryland $63,800 to $169,300
Massachusetts $63,800 to $180,300
Minnesota $63,800 to $169,300
New York $66,300 to $196,000
New Jersey $68,000 to $196,000
Virginia $59,100 to $180,300
Washington $80,200 to $180,300
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Salary70,350\.00 \- 196,000\.00 Annual
Type
Full\-time
Salary Context
This $59K-$196K range is in the lower quartile for AI/ML Engineer roles in our dataset (median: $180K across 1841 roles with salary data).
View full AI/ML Engineer salary data →Role Details
About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 3,708 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 70% of the market. At Information Technology Senior Management Forum, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills Required
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $218,750 based on 3,817 positions with disclosed compensation. Mid-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $200,000. This role's midpoint ($127K) sits 42% below the category median. Disclosed range: $59K to $196K.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $217,500. Top-quartile compensation starts at $272,100. The 90th percentile reaches $325,000. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($300,000) and Research Engineer ($280,000). By seniority level: Entry: $120,000; Mid: $200,000; Senior: $230,000; Director: $272,150; VP: $250,000.
Information Technology Senior Management Forum AI Hiring
Information Technology Senior Management Forum has 44 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer, Data Scientist, AI Architect, AI Safety. Positions span McLean, VA, US, San Jose, CA, US, New York, NY, US. Compensation range: $126K - $392K.
Location Context
Across all AI roles, 14% (508 positions) offer remote work, while 3,180 require on-site attendance. Top AI hiring metros: New York (1,045 roles, $220,000 median); San Francisco (810 roles, $277,088 median); Los Angeles (397 roles, $215,000 median).
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 3,708 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 102 entry-level, 1,705 mid-level, 1,469 senior, and 432 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 14% of the market (508 positions). The remaining 3,180 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $217,500. Top-quartile compensation starts at $272,100. The 90th percentile reaches $325,000. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($300,000 median, 21 roles); Research Engineer ($280,000 median, 147 roles); AI Architect ($254,798 median, 67 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 3,708 open positions across 16 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (2,605), Data Scientist (310), AI Software Engineer (259). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (102) are outnumbered by mid-level (1,705) and senior (1,469) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 432 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 14% of all AI roles (508 positions), with 3,180 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $217,500. Top-quartile roles start at $272,100, and the 90th percentile reaches $325,000. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $300,000 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $140,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (1,890 postings), Aws (1,103 postings), Azure (877 postings), Rag (855 postings), Gcp (631 postings), Prompt Engineering (560 postings), Pytorch (545 postings), Claude (498 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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