Accenture
AI Engineer
$115K–$160K
San Diego, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted May 18, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, CA
San Diego, California, United States - Experience
- 4 years of software development.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must have US work authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.
About the job
Integrates and operationalizes AI/LLM systems and developer workflows in a large enterprise Linux environment, including AI-assisted modernization of legacy software.
What you'll do
- Design localized, on-premises, and air-gapped AI solutions; build and optimize inference pipelines.
- Develop agentic AI workflows and integrate LLMs, vector databases, APIs, and enterprise systems into production.
- Productionize AI services and implement performance improvements, monitoring, evaluation, and testing.
What they ask for
- Strong Red Hat / Enterprise Linux experience.
- Experience with LLMs, RAG systems, embeddings, or AI-assisted tooling.
- Experience with GitLab workflows and CI/CD.
- Strong Python development; experience with APIs, backend systems, and automation; strong understanding of software architecture and large-scale systems.
Nice to have
- GPU infrastructure, local/open-source models, vector databases, semantic search, developer tooling, or AI evaluation/testing experience.
- Experience with secure/offline AI environments, code indexing, static analysis, or legacy-system modernization.
Pay
$115,300 — $160,100 USD (base salary)
Tools
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, GitLab, Python, vLLM, Open Code, OpenwebUI, Claude Code, RAG
AI focus
Build and operationalize AI/LLM systems, inference pipelines, agentic workflows, RAG, and AI-assisted developer tooling and modernization.
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