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

Boston Consulting Group; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Zero-dollar health premiums for family

Dental coverage

Vision insurance

Parental leave

Vacation days (15)

Holidays (12)

Profit sharing retirement fund

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Scientist (internship) in Boston to apply data science methods to diverse business problems. You will design and deploy scalable AI solutions, partner with clients, and help drive measurable impact across industries.

The role requires pursuing a Masters or PhD with graduation between December 2027 and August 2028, and a willingness to travel and work in an office hub model. There are strong benefits and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a full-time Masters or PhD with graduation between December 2027 and August 2028.
• Strong ability to translate advanced analytics into business impact.
• Willingness to work in a client-facing role and lead teams when needed.
• Experience with Python and modern development tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Apply data science methods to real-world business problems across industries.
• Design, implement, and deploy scalable AI solutions with business impact.
• Partner with clients across regions to design innovative AI-driven strategies.
• Create thought leadership and present findings at conferences.

Skills

Python

Data science concepts

ML techniques

Client-facing

Visualization

Actionable insights

Project management

DevOps experience

Education

Pursuing Masters or PhD

Tools

Python

DevOps

Job description

Locations

Boston | New York | Los Angeles | Chicago

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 Masters degree or PhD and graduating between December 2027 - August 2028.

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

Please note this program is evaluative, and interns have the opportunity to receive full-time offers. Our internship program operates in an 'office hub' model. If you receive a full-time offer, you can switch to a different office location outside of these summer hubs for your full-time role.

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.

FOR U.S. APPLICANTS: Boston Consulting Company (“BCG”) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The first-year base compensation for this role is:

Forward Deployed AI Scientist, II: $155,000 USD

Forward Deployed AI Scientist, III: $171,000 USD

Senior Forward Deployed AI Scientist: $200,000 USD

In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG’s Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.

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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