Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer, France - BCG X

Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer

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, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. BCG X is the tech build & design unit of BCG. Turbocharging BCG's deep industry and functional expertise, BCG X brings together advanced tech knowledge and ambitious entrepreneurship to help organizations enable innovation at scale. With nearly 3,000 technologists, scientists, programmers, engineers, and human-centered designers located across 80+ cities, BCG X builds and designs platforms and software to address the world's most important challenges and opportunities. Teaming across our practices, and in close collaboration with our clients, our end-to-end global team unlocks new possibilities.

We're a diverse team of more than 3,000 tech experts united by a drive to make a difference. Working across industries and disciplines, we combine our experience and expertise to tackle the biggest challenges faced by society today. We go beyond what was once thought possible, creating new and innovative solutions to the world's most complex problems. Leveraging BCG's global network and partnerships with leading organizations, 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. Together, we strive to create solutions that will positively impact the lives of millions.

Our 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 Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer you'll be part of our rapidly growing engineering team and help to build the next generation of AI solutions. You'll have the chance to partner with clients in a variety of BCG regions and industries, and on key topics like climate change, enabling them to design, build, and deploy new and innovative solutions. Additional responsibilities will include developing and delivering thought leadership in scientific communities and papers as well as leading conferences on behalf of BCG X. We are looking for talented individuals with a passion for software development, large-scale data analytics and transforming organizations into AI led innovative companies.

As a core member of BCG X you will also take a larger and more proactive role in shaping the strategy of BCG X – and of BCG overall. You will work closely with partners & managing directors to drive our company's growth & business development. Additional responsibilities will include developing and delivering thought leadership, managing teams of data scientists, engineers, designers. Successful candidates are intellectually curious builders who are biased toward action, scrappy, and communicative.

The Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer is expected to be recognized expert in AI engineering and will manage a team of engineers and data scientists to build innovative new products and solutions in BCG X.

Successful candidates possess the following:

• Comfortable in a client-facing role, manage engagements, client relationships, provide "thought leadership" to teams
• Apply software development practices and standards to develop robust and maintainable software
• Experienced at guiding non-technical teams and consultants in and best practices for robust software development
• Optimize and enhance computational efficiency of algorithms and software design
• Motivated by a fast-paced, service-oriented environment and interacting directly with clients on new features for future product releases
• A natural problem-solver and intellectually curious across a breadth of industries and topics
• Have strong project management skills and can act as interface between business & tech for our client

What You'll Bring:

• 7+ years of relevant industry work experience providing AI software solutions
• Advanced degree required in a field linked to computer science, statistics, engineering, or related field
• Strong record of professional accomplishment and leadership
• Looking for individuals with deep technical expertise, acute strategic and analytical skills, ability to lead and persuade, drive and energy, and desire to work in a project-based environment
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage projects and teams
• Proven ability to drive topics and make a commercial impact
• Fluency in at least one coding language (Python)

Additional info:

• Fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment
• Ability to travel based on client and business needs
• Fluency in English and French is required

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