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William Blair

Investment banking, research, brokerage, asset management

Senior Data Scientist - AI Engineer

AI Application EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeChicago, IL, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of software engineering experience, full-stack capability, and a record of shipping production applications.
  • Experience building applications or agents with large language models, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation architectures, LLM orchestration, or tool-use patterns.
  • Experience building interconnected multi-agent ecosystems, including agent coordination, shared tooling, and communication patterns across autonomous components.
  • Ability to perform data analysis, build and evaluate models, and work with feature pipelines.
  • Experience following rigorous engineering practices, including tested code, clean architecture, and maintainability.
  • Familiarity with capital markets; experience in or adjacent to investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or hedge funds is preferred.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably Azure; data tools such as Databricks and Spark; and pipeline orchestration tools such as Dagster, Airflow, or similar.
  • Focus on whether solutions are used by bankers and improve their productivity.

Responsibilities

  • Build AI-powered features and agents using Enterprise Claude and proprietary machine-learning models, integrated into bankers’ Salesforce workflows.
  • Develop large language model applications for banking use cases, including automated comparable analysis, buyer recommendation, meeting intelligence summarization, and deal status briefings.
  • Design and maintain data pipelines using Databricks and Dagster for feature engineering, model training, and real-time analytics.
  • Work with deal teams and industry groups to identify automation opportunities and turn banker pain points into working solutions.
  • Rapidly prototype and conduct exploratory analysis, building proof-of-concept tools to validate ideas before production implementations.
  • Integrate third-party AI tools, including Rogo.ai, Blueflame AI, and Fellow.ai, via APIs and maintain data flows across the composable architecture.
  • Write tested, production-quality code and apply engineering practices including code reviews, continuous integration and delivery, monitoring, and documentation.
  • Contribute to engineering standards and share knowledge as the team scales.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineer, solutions engineer, or embedded technical role with direct business stakeholder accountability.
  • Experience deploying multi-agent ecosystems into production, including operational monitoring, failure handling, and end-to-end lifecycle management.
  • Exposure to financial services workflows such as deal execution, pitch preparation, due diligence, or financial modeling.
  • Experience working with Salesforce APIs or CRM platforms as integration surfaces.
  • Side projects, open-source contributions, or a portfolio demonstrating curiosity and initiative beyond day-to-day work.

About the Company

William Blair

Investment banking, research, brokerage, asset management

William Blair is a privately held, employee-owned financial services firm that offers investment banking, equity research, brokerage, asset management, and private capital services. It combines advisory, research, trading, asset management, and private capital solutions to help clients raise, invest, and manage capital. Being privately held and employee-owned differentiates it from many competitors and supports a client-focused, multi-disciplinary approach under one firm. Its goal is to help clients grow and protect their capital by providing comprehensive financial services and access to private capital when needed.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
$754.3M
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Founded
1935

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