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Data Scientist - Forward Deployed Engineer
at McKinsey & Company
Mid LevelNo visa sponsorshipData Science/AI/ML
Posted 16 hours ago
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As an AI Platform Data Scientist, you will play a pivotal role in transforming raw data into actionable intelligence that drives product innovation and business strategy. You will design predictive models, conduct large-scale experiments, and uncover insights that inform decision-making, and you will define ontologies and knowledge graphs to connect and contextualize enterprise data. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will embed with client teams to deliver and scale AI solutions, deploying assets on client service teams and refining them for broader impact, including developing a generative AI product. You will build production pipelines leveraging generative models across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and support client deployments with customization and tooling to enable knowledge search, curation, and synthesis.
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Data Scientist - Forward Deployed Engineer
Job ID: 106187
- Berlin
- Budapest
- Cologne
- Dusseldorf
- Frankfurt
- Hamburg
- Lisbon
- London
- Madrid
- Munich
- Nuremberg
- Stuttgart
Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.
Your Impact
As an AI Platform Data Scientist, you will play a pivotal role in transforming raw data into actionable intelligence that drives product innovation and business strategy.
Your work will involve designing predictive models, conducting large-scale experiments, and uncovering insights that inform decision-making. Additionally, you will define and develop ontologies and knowledge graphs to connect and contextualize enterprise data, ensuring it is structured and meaningful. Collaborating closely with engineers and domain experts, you will establish data standards, maintain data quality, and operationalize models and graph services at scale. Your contributions will accelerate innovation, enhance client experiences, and enable faster, more confident decision-making across the platform.
As a member of the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) team, you will focus on delivering and scaling AI solutions by embedding into cross-functional teams of clients or consultants to realize tangible business value. You will deploy assets on client service teams and return to refine and shape those assets further. Your role offers the unique opportunity to contribute to the development of a generative AI product with firm-wide impact. You will join a high-priority initiative alongside a team of data scientists, engineers, designers, and product managers, leveraging cutting-edge technology to revolutionize knowledge research and synthesis. Your work will enable firm members to craft impactful stories effortlessly by utilizing multimodal large language models (LLMs) and generative AI technologies.
In this role, you will conduct hands-on experiments and deploy production pipelines that leverage generative models, such as GPT-like systems, to automate knowledge search, curation, and synthesis processes. This will involve tasks such as model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and iteration, with a focus on enhancing creativity and content generation. You will also deploy solutions across various cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and GCP, while troubleshooting and resolving technical issues to ensure alignment with product strategy. Additionally, you will develop and support customizations for client deployments, provide technical guidance on configuration and issue resolution, and contribute to improving pipelines, tooling, and engineering standards. When not assigned to active deployments, you will support ongoing product development, ensuring the platform continues to evolve and deliver value.
Your Growth
Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.
When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
Your qualifications and skills
- 3+ years of experience as a Data Scientist; previous enterprise platform experience preferred
- Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of NLP, Transformers, LLMs, and Generative AI
- Experience with OpenAI’s GPT suite, including previous experience with their multimodal LLMs: GPT4V, GPT4o is required
- Theoretical understanding of how LLMs can be leveraged to build classification models, re-rankers, and recommendation systems
- Strong programming skills, well-versed with building end-to-end data models and pipelines in Python according to the best engineering practices
- Experience managing a Git repository - maintaining effective version control with organized & clean branching strategies
- Experience with knowledge graphs
Please review the additional requirements regarding essential job functions of McKinsey colleagues.
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Job Skill Code - DSCS - Senior Data Scientist
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Industry - High Tech
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