Forward Deployed AI Scientist, Campus, United States - BCG X

Boston Consulting Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision insurance

Paid parental leave

Vacation days

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Scientist to join BCG X in the United States. You will apply data science methods to diverse business problems, partner with clients, and drive significant commercial impact across industries.

You will develop and deploy AI solutions, translate complex analytics into actionable guidance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to push the boundaries of AI-enabled consulting.

Qualifications

• Comfortable in a client-facing role and leading teams.
• Ability to distill complex results into clear visualizations.
• Explain sophisticated data science concepts to non-experts.
• Experience with collaborative coding and DevOps is a plus.
• Significant experience applying advanced analytics to business problems.
• Deep understanding of modern ML techniques and their business implications.
• Strong project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the analytics value chain from framing to deployment for real-world problems.
• Design innovative algorithms and scalable AI software solutions.
• Partner with clients across regions and industries to deliver impact.
• Lead thought leadership, present papers, and contribute to conferences.
• Build and mentor teams to deliver high-quality data science work.

Skills

Client facing

Data visualization

Explain concepts

Code collaboration

Advanced analytics

Machine learning understanding

Project management

Education

Pursuing Bachelor's/Master's/PhD (Dec 2026–Aug 2027)

Tools

Python

Job description

Locations

Boston | Chicago | Washington | Pittsburgh | New York | Brooklyn | Manhattan Beach | Dallas | Miami | San Francisco | Seattle | Los Angeles

Who We Are

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. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

We Are BCG X

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.

What You'll Do

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 Forward Deployed AI Scientist, you'll be part of our rapidly growing team. You'll have the chance to apply data science methods and analytics to real-world business situations across a variety of industries to drive significant business impact. 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. Successful candidates are intellectually curious builders who are biased toward action, scrappy, and communicative.

We are looking for talented individuals with a passion for data science, statistics, operations research and transforming organizations into AI led innovative companies. Successful candidates possess the following:

• Comfortable in a client-facing role with the ambition to lead teams
• Likes to distill complex results or processes into simple, clear visualizations
• Explain sophisticated data science concepts in an understandable manner
• Love building things and are comfortable working with modern development tools and writing code collaboratively (bonus points if you have a software development or DevOps experience)
• Significant experience applying advanced analytics to a variety of business situations and a proven ability to synthesize complex data
• Deep understanding of modern machine learning techniques and their mathematical underpinnings, and can translate this into business implications for our clients
• Have strong project management skills

What You'll Bring

This position is open to students currently pursuing a full-time Bachelors, Masters, or PhD degree and graduating between December 2026 - August 2027.

The deadline to apply for this position is September 17, 2026 at 11:59pm ET.

TECHNOLOGIES:

Programming Languages: Python

Additional info

You must live within a reasonable commuting distance of your home office. As a member of that office, it is expected you will be in the office as directed. This role puts you on an accelerated path of personal and professional growth and development and so, at times, requires extended working hours. Our work often requires travel to client sites.

The first-year base compensation for this role is ranges from $110,000 - $190,000 USD.

At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees – and their eligible family members. * That’s zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:

• Zero-dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
• Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits
• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
• Fully vested Profit-Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan
• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 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.

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