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Boston Consulting Group

Global strategy and transformation consulting firm

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

AI Application Engineering +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience developing and operating production-quality software in an agile, cross-functional team.
  • Experience building web or mobile front ends, back ends, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Coding skills in Python, TypeScript, or similar languages.
  • Ability to understand clients’ business situations and formulate solutions based on them.
  • Ability to apply advanced development and analytical methods to real business and achieve results.
  • Ability to explain complex technologies and concepts clearly and at an accessible level for non-specialists.

Responsibilities

  • Understand client business challenges and contribute to value creation by proposing and building solutions using digital technologies, especially generative AI and cloud technologies.
  • Select technology stacks appropriate to project scope and client environments and constraints, including web and mobile applications, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure, and lead development end to end.
  • Lead the introduction of DevOps and MLOps and quality assurance to ensure development efficiency and quality.
  • Collaborate in an agile way with multidisciplinary colleagues, including project managers, data scientists, designers, and consultants, bridging technical considerations with user experience, data models, and business models.
  • Form development teams, including contractors, and lead agile development to validate hypotheses quickly and create business impact within limited timeframes.
  • Communicate appropriately with internal and external stakeholders to clearly visualize and convey technical approaches to business challenges and their effects.
  • Support clients in establishing the organizational capabilities needed to operate developed systems and models appropriately.
  • Propose technology selections and best practices based on knowledge of current and emerging technology, raising technical capability inside and outside the organization.
  • Build robust, efficient systems while accounting for differing client infrastructure and operating environments.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience developing generative AI.
  • Experience developing large-scale services or enterprise software as a service.
  • Experience working with relational and non-relational databases and streaming data, including structured and unstructured data.
  • Understanding of DevOps and MLOps.
  • Experience putting large-scale data analytics, analytical models, or workflows into production.
  • Experience building strong client relationships and negotiating requirements.
  • Project management office experience, including tracking project progress and issues and facilitating meetings.
  • Experience managing multidisciplinary teams.
  • Conversational English or higher.

About the Company

Boston Consulting Group

Global strategy and transformation consulting firm

BCG provides global management consulting, advising leaders in strategy and transformation across industries, with expertise in M&A, operations, pricing, sustainability, and AI. BCG X builds AI solutions, digital products, and new ventures by combining engineers, data scientists, designers, and venture builders for clients. Specialist units Inverto, Platinion, and Quantis support procurement, IT architecture, and sustainability, while the BCG Henderson Institute supplies research. The goal is to help clients achieve lasting performance improvements and durable value through strategic advisory plus hands-on technology execution.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Boston, MA
Founded
1963

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