Who We Are
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. 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. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We’re a diverse team of more than 3,000 tech experts united by a drive to make a difference. Leveraging BCG’s global network and partnerships with leading organizations, BCG X provides a stable ecosystem for talent to build game-changing businesses, products, and services from the ground up, all while growing their career. We’re a diverse team of more than 3,000 tech experts united by a drive to make a difference. Leveraging BCG’s global network and partnerships with leading organizations, BCG X provides a stable ecosystem for talent to build game-changing businesses, products, and services from the ground up, all while growing their career. Are you passionate about developing socially and ethically responsible AI systems? Are you excited by the prospect of supporting projects that apply
cutting-edge AI and GenAI models to solve real-world problems? Imagine working with BCG ’s Responsible AI team, where you
will develop and apply innovative tools for testing and evaluating
new
GenAI products. Your daily work
would involve designing and implementing testing and evaluation frameworks to help improve product quality and ensure AI systems are safe, secure, and
equitable
.
Join a team dedicated to exploring creative solutions and pioneering advancements in Responsible AI. On the team,
youll collaborate with brilliant minds and make a tangible impact on shaping the future of AI, ensuring it meets the highest standards for responsibility and effectiveness. You will have the opportunity to support a wide variety of projects, spanning use cases,
technologies, industries, and clients. The Responsible AI Applied Scientist
plays a critical role
supporting
BCG ’s
testing and evaluation efforts, working in conjunction with our AI and GenAI product teams to ensure alignment with our Responsible AI policy, principles, and standards, and to support the design, continuous improvement, and execution of the overall Responsible AI program at BCG.
The Responsible AI Applied Sci
entist
will work with a diverse set of stakeholders to:
~ Ensure responsible development of GenAI and AI products by providing Responsible AI expert support to
GenAI and
AI product teams, including conducting independent
assessment of
product -level
risks
and
owning
product evaluations
~ Engage
indep
endently and
directly with BCG
product
teams
to sup
port Responsible AI-related
nee
ds across the entire software development lifecycle of GenAI or AI product
s
~ Work with
and support
technical teams executing risk assessment and
testing and
evaluation
o
f GenAI
and AI
products
~ Train and mentor technical
teams on
testing and
evaluation approaches for GenAI products
~ Remain
up - to - date on emerging frameworks, standards, and technical approaches, and related issues
, by
participating in workshops, reading professional publications,
maintaining personal networks, and
participating in professional organizations
3-5+ years of experience in Responsible AI, including directly engaging with AI product teams
~3+ years of industry experience in building or evaluating Generative AI models
~ Experience in program/project management and team leadership
~ Strong programming skills in Python and deep learning frameworks ( PyTorch
, TensorFlow)
~ Demonstrable knowledge of Responsible AI issues, trends, frameworks, and best practices
~ Working knowledge of emerging AI regulatory and legal frameworks across the globe
~ Ability to explain sophisticated data science concepts to non-technical audiences and translate analytical results into business implications
~ Ability to think critically about ethical, social, and business risks posed by
GenAI and
AI systems
~ Passion for building things and comfort working with modern data science development tools
~ Experience and enthusiasm for working with Ge
n
AI technologies
Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent research/work experience
~ Deep familiarity with software engineering workflows and developer tools
~ Experience working with or evaluating AI/ML models, preferably LLMs
~ Strong analytical and communication skills, including the ability to write clear testing result reports
Familiarity with software engineering practices (e.g., unit testing, CI/CD )
~ Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) or SQL databases
~ Knowledge of AI risk management frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF)
~ VSCode
,
Pycharm )and environment management (e.g.,
You’ll work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging, product-oriented environment where we advance our thinking about and operationalization of Responsible AI.
You’ll engage with a diverse set of stakeholders, including senior executives, A
I and G
enAI product
teams
, legal, compliance, and security teams,
BCG’s Chief AI Ethics Officer, the Director of the Responsible AI team, and other members of the Responsible AI team.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.