About this role
Job title: AI Research Scientist
About the Role Join KPMG's Audit Technology Alliance as an AI Research Scientist to lead applied AI research for audit challenges, focusing on natural language processing, information retrieval, and large-scale language models. You will translate research into production-ready components, drive experimentation, and mentor teams across the organization.
What You'll Do
- Lead applied research initiatives related to AI models, advanced AI agent patterns, and optimizing knowledge retrieval to solve complex audit challenges.
- Collaborate with AI engineers and product managers to translate research in areas like context engineering and RAG into scalable, production-ready components.
- Design and champion a rigorous experimentation framework to measure, validate, and ensure the quality and reliability of AI-driven outcomes.
- Drive the team's research agenda by identifying emerging trends in generative AI, proposing innovative solutions, and mentoring junior scientists and engineers to foster a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
- Design and implement processes for AI model training; from infrastructure, to data labelling, evaluations, among other areas; work to ensure models can be deployed and managed in production (MLOps).
- Architect and prototype novel research and new solutions; share findings with colleagues across KPMG globally to advance wider AI initiatives.
- Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment.