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Visiting Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Italy - BCG X

Milano, Milano, Italyfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Jun 2026

💰 €29,800/yr

About the role

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.

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.

You’ll be part of our rapidly growing engineering team and help to build the next generation of AI solutions. 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.

We are looking for dedicated individuals with a passion for software development, large-scale data analytics and redefining organizations into AI led innovative companies. Successful candidates possess the following:

· Apply software development practices and standards to develop robust and maintainable software

· Actively involved in every part of the software development life cycle

· Experienced at guiding non-technical teams and consultants in and best practices for robust software development

· Optimize and enhance computational efficiency of algorithms and software design

· Motivated by a fast-paced, service-oriented environment and interacting directly with clients on new features for future product releases

· Enjoy collaborating in teams to share software design and solution ideas

· A natural problem-solver and intellectually curious across a breadth of industries and topics

· Fluent in English and Italian

What You'll Bring

REQUIREMENTS:

Currently enrolled in a university master’s or PhD degree program in Computer Research Science, Data Science, Statistics, Operations Research, or related fields:

TECHNOLOGIES:

Programming: Python, Java/Scala
Frameworks/Libraries: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Keras
Data Processing: NumPy, Pandas, Apache Spark, Dask
Cloud Platforms: AWS (SageMaker, EC2), GCP (AI Platform), Azure (ML Studio)
DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins
Data Visualization: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly/Dash, Tableau
Tools: Jupyter Notebooks, Google Colab, Git (GitHub/GitLab), MLflow, TensorBoard
Deployment: Flask, FastAPI, TensorFlow Serving, Streamlit

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Additional info

At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in-person collaboration plays an essential role in our culture, mentorship, and professional development. That's why we generally operate on a hybrid model, with office presence shaped by business needs, team norms, and local policies and practices. We aim to provide a dynamic and collaborative environment that fosters connection and teamwork.

Compensation Information

Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, and a benefits package described below. Our Reward Philosophy is to take a holistic approach to offer a comprehensive package which includes market-competitive base salary, discretionary performance bonus and benefits that can support both physical and mental health. Our philosophy drives our actions and aims at being competitive, fair and easy for employees to un