Who You'll Work With
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. 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 Impact
At McKinsey you will work on real-world, high-impact projects across a variety of industries.You will have the opportunity to collaborate with QB/Labs teams and build complex and innovative ML systems to accelerate our work in AI and help solve business problems at speed and scale.You will experience the best environment to grow as a technologist and a leader.You will develop a sought-after perspective connecting technology and business value by working on real-life problems across a variety of industries and technical challenges to serve our clients on their changing needs.You will be surrounded by inspiring individuals as part of diverse and multidisciplinary teams.You will develop a holistic perspective of AI by partnering with the best design, technical, and business talent in the world as your team members.While we advocate for using the right tech for the right task, we often leverage the following technologies: Python, PySpark, the PyData stack, Airflow, Databricks, our own open-source data pipelining framework called Kedro, Dask/RAPIDS, container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, cloud solutions such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and more.You will work with other data scientists, data/ML engineers, designers, project managers and business subject matter experts on interdisciplinary projects across various industry sectors to enable business ambitions with data & analytics.You are a highly collaborative individual who is capable of laying aside your own agenda, listening to and learning from colleagues, challenging thoughtfully and prioritizing impact. You search for ways to improve things and work collaboratively with colleagues. You believe in iterative change, experimenting with new approaches, learning and improving to move forward quickly.As a Data Scientist, you will:
- Solve the hardest business problems with our clients in multiple industries worldwide while leading research and development of state-of-the-art Machine Learning and statistical methods
- Play a leading role in bringing the latest advances in AI and deep learning to our clients, collaborating with industry executives and QuantumBlack experts to find and execute opportunities to improve business performance using data and advanced machine learning models
- Identify machine learning R&D initiatives that have high potential of applicability in industry
- Work with QuantumBlack leadership and client executives to understand business problems and map them to state-of-the-art analytics and AI solutions
- Work closely with other data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers and designers to build end-to-end analytics solutions for our clients that drive real impact in the real world
- Perhaps most importantly, you will work in one of the most talented and diverse data science teams in the world
Your Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor's or master's level in a discipline such as: computer science, machine learning, applied statistics, mathematics, engineering or artificial intelligence
- 2+ years of deep technical experience in machine learning, advanced analytics and statistics
- Advanced programming expertise in Python
- Proven application of advanced analytical, data science and statistical methods in realworld engagements
- Knowledge in Engineering standards, QA/Risk Management
- Experience and expertise In GenAI application development (RAG, Agentic flows, etc.) using API integration and orchestration tools such as Langchains, Crew.AI, AutoGen will be an added advantage
- Willingness to travel both domestic and international
- Good presentation and communication skills, with a knack for explaining complex analytical concepts and insights to technical as well as non-technical audiences
