Forward Deployed AI Scientist, Campus, United States - BCG X
Locations: Boston, Chicago, Washington, Pittsburgh, New York, Brooklyn, Manhattan Beach, Dallas, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles
About the role
BCG X teams own the full analytics value-chain end-to-end: framing new business challenges, designing innovative algorithms, implementing and deploying scalable solutions, and enabling colleagues and clients to fully embrace AI. Our product offerings span from fully custom builds to industry-specific leading-edge AI software solutions.
As a Forward Deployed AI Scientist, you'll apply data science methods and analytics to real-world business situations across a variety of industries to drive significant business impact. You'll partner with clients on key topics like climate change, helping them design, build, and deploy new and innovative solutions. Additional responsibilities include developing and delivering thought leadership in scientific communities, publishing papers, and leading conferences on behalf of BCG X.
Successful candidates are intellectually curious builders who are biased toward action, scrappy, and communicative.
Responsibilities
- Apply data science and advanced analytics to real-world business challenges across industries
- Partner with clients to design, build, and deploy AI-driven solutions
- Develop and deliver thought leadership through papers and conference presentations
- Distill complex results into simple, clear visualizations
- Explain sophisticated data science concepts in an understandable manner
- Collaborate on code using modern development tools
- Manage projects and lead teams in a client-facing role
Requirements
- Comfortable in a client-facing role with ambition to lead teams
- Ability to distill complex processes into simple visualizations
- Experience explaining data science concepts clearly
- Passion for building and comfort with modern development tools and collaborative coding (software development or DevOps experience is a plus)
- Significant experience applying advanced analytics to business situations
- Proven ability to synthesize complex data
- Deep understanding of modern machine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinnings
- Ability to translate machine learning into business implications
- Strong project management skills
- Must live within a reasonable commuting distance of your home office
- Willingness to travel to client sites and work extended hours as needed
Qualifications
This position is open to students currently pursuing a full-time Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree and graduating between December 2026 and August 2027.
- Programming Languages: Python
Pay
The first-year base compensation for this role ranges from $110,000 to $190,000 USD.
Benefits
- Zero-dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for employees, spouses, and children
- $10 (USD) copays for doctor visits, urgent care, and generic prescriptions
- Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits
- Vision insurance covering glasses and contact lenses annually
- Reimbursement for gym memberships and fitness activities
- Fully vested profit-sharing retirement fund contributions made annually, plus 401(k) option
- Paid parental leave and family benefits (elective egg freezing, surrogacy, adoption reimbursement)
- 12 paid holidays per year, plus annual office closure between Christmas and New Year’s
- 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)
- Paid sick time on an as-needed basis
Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.