Applied AI Engineer (all genders)

About the role

Accenture is hiring an Applied AI Engineer in Vienna. You will design, build and ship production-grade software across the full stack, using AI-assisted tooling as standard daily practice alongside your core engineering skills. You will work on real client programs across industries, building software that connects to and supports agentic AI systems, with a pathway to the Forward Deployed Engineer program.

Key responsibilities

• Use AI coding assistants daily as part of delivery, with measurable impact on productivity and output quality
• Integrate LLM APIs into production applications, managing token limits, latency and building initial abstraction layers
• Apply AI across the full delivery lifecycle: AI-generated tests, AI-assisted debugging, AI-accelerated code review and prompt engineering
• Own the quality of AI-generated outputs and judge when they are production-ready
• Define and track KPIs for AI-assisted workflows and share productivity and quality metrics with stakeholders
• Own delivery end-to-end in Agile sprint cycles alongside client engineering teams
• Contribute to shared knowledge bases, reusable components and internal AI tooling standards
• Build and integrate application layers, APIs and interfaces connecting full-stack systems to agentic backends

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or a related field
• 2+ years of commercial software engineering experience in production environments (or equivalent through academic projects, internships or shipped personal projects)
• Demonstrated hands-on use of AI tools in day-to-day engineering, including calling LLM APIs in production code with an understanding of token management, latency and cost trade-offs
• Very good German and English, and occasional travel for business

Required skills

• Proficiency in at least one backend language: Python, Java or TypeScript
• Basic understanding of JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Familiarity with cloud fundamentals (AWS, Azure or GCP), Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of Agile delivery and databases (SQL or NoSQL)
• Familiarity with agentic system concepts such as LangChain, LangGraph, RAG pipelines and orchestration frameworks (production experience preferred)

What we offer

• Starting annual gross salary of EUR 45,000, depending on qualifications and experience
• Flexible working hours and a modern work environment
• Structured AI certification pathways and vendor fellowship access inside Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft and Google engineering teams