About the Role
As a Forward Deployed AI Scientist with BCG X, you will apply data science methods and analytics to real-world business situations across various industries. You will partner with clients to design, build, and deploy innovative AI solutions, contributing to key topics like climate change. This role offers an accelerated path for personal and professional growth, requiring a passion for data science and transforming organizations into AI-led companies.
Responsibilities
- Own the full analytics value-chain end to end: framing new business challenges, designing innovative algorithms, implementing, and deploying scalable solutions.
- Enable colleagues and clients to fully embrace AI.
- Apply data science methods and analytics to real-world business situations across a variety of industries to drive significant business impact.
- Partner with clients in various BCG regions and industries on key topics like climate change, enabling them to design, build, and deploy new and innovative solutions.
- Develop and deliver thought leadership in scientific communities and papers.
- Lead conferences on behalf of BCG X.
Requirements
- Must live within a reasonable commuting distance of your home office.
- Expected to be in the office as directed.
- Requires extended working hours at times.
- Work often requires travel to client sites.
- Comfortable in a client-facing role with the ambition to lead teams.
- Ability to distill complex results or processes into simple, clear visualizations.
- Ability to explain sophisticated data science concepts in an understandable manner.
- Comfortable working with modern development tools and writing code collaboratively.
- Significant experience applying advanced analytics to a variety of business situations.
- Proven ability to synthesize complex data.
- Deep understanding of modern machine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinnings.
- Ability to translate machine learning concepts into business implications for clients.
- Strong project management skills.
Skills
- Data science
- Analytics
- AI
- Python
- Software development (bonus)
- DevOps (bonus)
- Statistics
- Operations research
Location
- Boston
- Chicago
- Washington
- Pittsburgh
- New York
- Brooklyn
- Manhattan Beach
- Dallas
- Miami
- San Francisco
- Seattle
- Los Angeles
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Student (Bachelors, Masters, or PhD)
- Graduating between December 2026 - August 2027
Education Level
- Bachelors Degree
- Masters Degree
- PhD Degree
Salary/Compensations
- $110,000 - $190,000 USD
Benefits
- Full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible family members.
- Zero-dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
- Low $10 (USD) copays for doctor visits, urgent care, and generic drug prescriptions.
- Dental coverage including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits.
- Vision insurance with annual coverage for glasses and contact lenses.
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities.
- Fully vested Profit-Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually.
- Option to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan.
- Paid Parental Leave.
- Family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year.
- Annual office closure between Christmas and New Years.
- 15 vacation days per year.
- Paid sick time on an as needed basis.
About the Company
- Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.
- BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963.
- Today, BCG helps clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
- BCG X is a diverse team of more than 3,000 tech experts united by a drive to make a difference.
- BCG X combines experience and expertise to tackle the biggest challenges faced by society today.
- BCG X goes beyond what was once thought possible, creating new and innovative solutions to the world’s most complex problems.
- BCG X provides a stable ecosystem for talent to build game-changing businesses, products, and services from the ground up, all while growing their career.
- BCG X strives to create solutions that will positively impact the lives of millions.
Equal Opportunity
- Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
- BCG is an E - Verify Employer.
