Accenture Labs - Next Generation Architecture Research Associate Principal
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in the Systems & Platforms group within Accenture Technology Labs in San Francisco. As a technology researcher within Accenture, you'll have the opportunity to apply innovative research across a wide range of contexts and industries. We incubate tech-driven innovation for new practices and offerings for Accenture, from conceptualization through to prototype and pilots within both Accenture and our clients. Your role will thus allow you to see an idea from inception to experimentation, maturation, and commercial impact.

Your role

A well-rounded researcher capable of providing direction and guidance for a high performant team one or more the following areas: robotics, FPGAs, quantum computing, edge analytics and computing, data management architectures, graph technologies, and semantic knowledge graphs. We are looking for individuals that who can quickly pivot and utilize concepts from unfamiliar areas of research to further improve solutions in industry.

* Explore and define new research areas and plans within the research agenda of the R&D group.
* Implement, provide guidance to a a high performant team, and execute projects within the R&D group.
* Ability to quickly develop a research from beginning into a well formed idea for a product and present yourself as an advisor in that area of research.
* Build on ideas and directions provided by leads and stakeholders in order to achieve high quality deliverables.
* Build on concepts in a very dynamic environment and be seen as highly differentiated technology experts within their domain.
* Find and nurture collaborative research between academia and industry and fuse ideas into current research
* Actively participate in their technology community by building relationships and serving as a technology expert when working with clients or client teams.
* Actively participate and serve in the research community (e.g., conferences, consortiums, workshops) and build university relationships.
* Explore and apply for research grants from internal (Accenture partners and clients) and external funding organizations (e.g., DoE, DoD, DARPA, EPA, DHS, NSF)