Senior Lead AI Engineer - Hybrid, Production ML

Oliver Wyman; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver Wyman Quotient is seeking a Senior Lead AI Engineer to manage AI/ML projects and guide teams in building production-ready AI systems. You’ll work directly with clients and partners, shaping solutions across industries and deploying LLM-based agents.

Ideal candidates have a strong CS/data science background, hands-on experience with large-scale AI deployments, and fluency in modern AI toolchains including agent platforms and retrieval-augmented generation. Hybrid work in US offices.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and deploying large-scale AI/ML solutions that deliver measurable value.
• Ability to deploy robust production systems and make rapid design decisions under time constraints.
• Fluency in end-to-end AI development lifecycle and modern agentic platforms.

Responsibilities

• Exploring data and crafting AI solutions to answer core business problems.
• Shaping proposals with Partners and Principals leveraging AI capabilities.
• Building and deploying LLM-based agent systems in production.
• Keeping up with domain state-of-the-art and data engineering methodologies.
• Advocating best practices in modelling, code hygiene and data engineering.
• Leading development of proprietary AI/ML solutions and analytics tools.

Skills

AI/ML systems

Production-quality engineering

LLM system design

Prompt engineering

Data science fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Data Science/Statistics

Tools

Azure Foundry

AWS Bedrock

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Job description

Oliver Wyman Quotient is seeking a Senior Lead AI Engineer to manage AI/ML projects and guide teams in building production-ready AI systems. You’ll work directly with clients and partners, shaping solutions across industries and deploying LLM-based agents.

Ideal candidates have a strong CS/data science background, hands-on experience with large-scale AI deployments, and fluency in modern AI toolchains including agent platforms and retrieval-augmented generation. Hybrid work in US offices.