Data Science Research Specialist

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.

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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:

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