You Are:You are a highly motivated, data-driven AI scientist who combines technical expertise with a passion for business strategy and research. Your economic and strategic perspective enables you to address critical client questions and clearly articulate the business impact of your analyses.
The Work: In this role, you'll be reporting into the Research AI Principal Director and will contribute across a portfolio of engagements. The work is highly varied with a focus on Agentic AI, synthetic personas, and thought leadership.
Key Responsibilities:- translate complex business problems into analytical questions with clearly defined outputs.
- support insight developments for client workshops defining actionable strategic recommendations.
- design, build, and deliver AI methodologies.
- develop and iterate synthetic persona generation pipelines.
- contribute to thought leadership research papers (white papers, industry reports) to shape the conversation on relevant business topics.
Travel may be required for role - 0-80% depending on client and business needs.
Here's What You Need: - Minimum of 3 years of hands-on Python development experience building analytical, machine learning, or AI solutions using libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
- Minimum of 1 year of experience developing and deploying machine learning models, including supervised learning, unsupervised learning, simulation models, forecasting, clustering, classification, or ensemble methods.
- Minimum of 1 year of experience delivering Generative AI solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), LLM evaluation, orchestration frameworks, and agent-based workflows.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Data Science, Economics (or a related field) or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
Preferred Qualifications: - Master's degree or PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, Operations Research, Business Analytics, or a related field.
- 1+ year of experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, or AI/ML services.
- 1+ year of experience designing or implementing synthetic data and synthetic persona generation techniques, including tools such as SDV, Gaussian Copula Synthesizer, or similar frameworks.
- Experience building multi-agent systems, autonomous workflows, or agentic AI solutions for research, analytics, or business applications.
- Experience working with vector databases, knowledge retrieval systems, embeddings, and RAG architectures.
- Prior experience contributing to published research, thought leadership, academic studies, industry reports, or collaborations with universities, think tanks, or research institutions.
- Industry expertise in one or more sectors, with a demonstrated ability to develop actionable business insights from data.
- Experience presenting findings and recommendations to executive leadership and client stakeholders.
Professional Skills- Strong business acumen: ability to contextualize analytical findings within a business context.
- Excellent communication skills - written, verbal, and visual - for presenting to executive and non-technical audiences.
- Strategic problem-solving mindset: comfortable moving from ambiguous business context to a structured analytical approach.
- Enthusiasm for cross-functional, multicultural teamwork with a bias toward building durable, reusable infrastructure.
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 12/18/2026.
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:
U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture
Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $70,350 to $196,000
Colorado $63,800 to $169,300
Connecticut $63,800 to $169,300
District of Columbia $68,000 to $180,300
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
Ohio $59,100 to $156,800
Virginia $59,100 to $180,300
Washington $80,200 to $180,300
