AI Research Engineer

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations build their digital core and optimize operations. They are seeking an AI Research Engineer to join their applied R&D group, focusing on creating rapid prototypes and conducting advanced research to explore how AI can transform knowledge work and human-machine collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Create rapid prototypes to test and illustrate Labs’ business hypotheses about how AI can and emerging tech transform knowledge work, decision-making, and human-machine collaboration in enterprise contexts, working across design through development and testing
• Support senior researchers in scoping, defining, executing, and communicating research initiatives
• Support development of internal and external thought leadership, targeted for various audiences and in a variety of formats (blogs, white papers, videos, research conferences, etc.)
• Help generate unique intellectual property (e.g., patents, tools)
• Participate in client workshops and client-facing projects, applying our expertise to real-world client needs. Note that as an R&D group within a consulting company, the role involves a mix of future-facing exploration of emerging technologies and application of our capabilities within current client projects
• Be an Engineering Expert in one or more technical areas of expertise:
• AI development: working with the latest AI models, Agentic frameworks, and tools to test the technology’s maturity and build new prototypes with AI stacks
• Developing technical prototypes embodied in digital and hardware (robotic systems, AR/XR headsets, biosensing wearables, etc...) that explore, test, and communicate the ways that emerging technologies can transform various activities and realms of experience
• A technical contributor across the organization in your area of expertise, both internally for Accenture and during client engagements
• Apply technical skills in a client-delivery team