AI Applied Researcher

Dublin - Ireland

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 14 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description:

Join the Accenture Labs AI R&D Team and work on core AI Models / technology that work across multiple domains.

The Opportunity

As anApplied Scientist you will sit at the intersection ofadvanced AI research and real-world business impact. You will translate state-of-the-art machine learning and AI techniques intopractical scalable solutionsthat solve complex problems across real datasets products and client environments.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys moving beyond pure research toown the end-to-end lifecycleof AI solutionsfrom problem formulation and experimentation to validation deployment and measurable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities & Impact

This role offers a unique mix of deep research and hands-on development:

Research Synthesis: Review analyze and strategically summarize the latest academic and industry research in technical domains (e.g. LLM domain adaptation knowledge integration reasoning techniques).

Adapt foundation and compact language models to specialized domains using techniques such as fine-tuning continued pre-training distillation and parameter-efficient methods (e.g. LoRA).

Design and implement agentic LLM systems that integrate external tools (APIs databases services rule engines) to perform precision and verifiable tasks.

Hands-on Prototype Development: Collaborate directly with Senior Research Scientists to rapidly design build and test Proof-of-Concepts.

Research Dissemination: Articulate complex research findings into clear persuasive and publishable papers and presentations for both academic and business audiences.

Strategic Storytelling: Craft engaging narratives and technical demonstrations that translate research outcomes into clear compelling value propositions.

Job Qualifications:

Masters plus 2-3 years industry experience or PhD in Computer Science / AI (Area of Study: AI / ML / NLP) with 1-2 years industry experience.
Strong foundation in machine learning including supervised learning embeddings evaluation metrics and data preprocessing.
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
Good written and verbal communication abilities with the capacity to structure presentations for maximum clarity and impact.
Experimental design expertise including the ability to design controlled experiments define meaningful baselines and interpret results using appropriate quantitative metrics.
Ability to collaborate effectively with researchers engineers and product stakeholders in cross-functional environments.
Ability to track evaluate and apply relevant research literature.
Strong programming skills in Python including experience with libraries such as PyTorch (preferred) TensorFlow.

Primary Skills:

Ability to implement custom models (neural networks transformers) layers or loss functions.
Small Language Models (SLMs): hands-on experience building adapting and evaluating compact language models; understanding of domain adaptation techniques efficiency trade-offs and deployment constraints.
Agentic LLMs & Tool Use: experience integrating LLMs with external tools and systems to execute structured multi-step tasks with high precision.
Experience integrating external knowledge sources into LLM/SLM systems such as databases document collections knowledge graphs or rule-based systems.
Demonstrated ability to combine model reasoning external knowledge and tools into reliable end-to-end systems.

Bonus Skills (Not Required but Valuable)

Prior experience in anAI research lab applied research group or advanced R&D environment.
Publications preprints or open-source contributions.
Exposure toresponsible AI model risk or safety-related evaluations.
Domain expertise in a complex or regulated field (healthcare or finance).

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Whats in it for you:

At Accenture Ireland in addition to a competitive base salary you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes pension private health insurance discounted gym membership emergency caring facilities and 2 days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexible working arrangements can be discussed depending on the position.

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Job Description:Join the Accenture Labs AI R&D Team and work on core AI Models / technology that work across multiple domains.The OpportunityAs anApplied Scientist you will sit at the intersection ofadvanced AI research and real-world business impact. You will translate state-of-the-art machine lear...