Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Scientist

In today's business environment, growth isn't just about building value-it's fundamental to long-term business survival. So how do organizations sustain themselves? The key is a new operating model-one that's anchored around the customer and propelled by intelligence to deliver exceptional experiences across the enterprise at speed and at scale. You will deliver breakthrough business outcomes for clients-by harnessing talent, data and intelligence to revolutionize their operating models.

Operations is one of four services that make up one Accenture -the others are Strategy and Consulting, Interactive and Technology.

The Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Scientist role entails end to end design and development of a functional component of the AI solution within the Artificial Intelligence, Insights and Intelligence group. Active collaboration with clients/client teams and broader AI, business, product, engineering, testing, and deployment teams within Accenture is expected.

About the Team:

Artificial Intelligence, Insights and Intelligence team focuses on building scalable enterprise AI solutions that augment the humans/ agents. The focus is to make the business processes more efficient thereby enhancing the overall end user experience. The team works with clients across diverse domains - Finance and Accounting, Customer Engagement, Marketing, Talent & HR, Procurement, Content Moderation spanning across industries

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate the business requirements into technical requirements
• Analyze the data and data preparation to build the AI models
• Benchmark of the right AI models/ libraries that should be used for development
• Optimize the AI models built
• Integrate the functional component with the broader AI architecture
• Follow the testing and deployment standards

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Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Ph.D. or Masters
• Minimum of 2 years' experience in natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence techniques, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision in corporate or academic research environments (including years in PhD or postdoc if the projects are in related areas)
• Minimum of 2 years' experience in Python programming

Preferred Qualifications :

• Preferred degree concentration in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning or related scientific fields
• Ability to understand business context, generate ideas, and come up with creative solutions
• Proven programming skills to enable rapid prototyping and implementation of solutions
• Ability to work in a global collaborative team environment
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills in English
• Experience in product development particularly applying Artificial Intelligence

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