Oliver Wyman - Senior Lead AI Engineer
Marsh & McLennan Companies2 months ago
Boston, MA, USA +3 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$195k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Manage technical projects and help teams design and build extensible, production-quality AI/ML systems and pipelines.
- Explore data and craft AI solutions addressing core business problems.
- Work with Partners and Principals to shape proposals using AI and engineering capabilities.
- Build and deploy LLM-based agent systems in production.
- Lead development of proprietary AI/ML solutions, algorithms, analytical tools, and infrastructure.
- Design and operate evaluation frameworks and observability tooling to measure AI quality, detect failure modes, and maintain production performance.
- Apply best practices in modeling, code hygiene, and data engineering while engaging directly with clients and collaborating across Oliver Wyman teams.
Requirements
- Technical background in computer science, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, or another quantitative and computational science discipline.
- Compelling track record designing and deploying large-scale technical solutions that deliver sustained value.
- Direct experience building and deploying robust, complex production systems implementing modern artificial intelligence at scale.
- Fluency in modern programming languages for AI and agents across the end-to-end AI development lifecycle.
- Knowledge of one or more agentic platforms, such as Azure Foundry, AWS Bedrock, or Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
- Deep familiarity with compound AI systems, including retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, agentic memory, and multi-agent orchestration.
- Proficiency in LLM system design, including prompt engineering, context and token management, structured output, fine-tuning tradeoffs, and cost and latency optimization.
- Practical awareness of AI risk, bias, and governance, including identifying and mitigating failure modes in high-stakes or regulated environments.
- Solid theoretical grounding in AI/ML mathematics and applied understanding of modeling or analytical techniques, including statistics, linear algebra, and vector calculus.
- Ability to make consequential design decisions rapidly in large, time-boxed projects.
- Experience presenting at high-impact AI/ML engineering conferences and strong AI/ML engineering community connections is valued.
- Side projects or open-source contributions and background in financial services, healthcare and life sciences, consumer, retail, energy, or transportation are valued.
Benefits
- Applicable base salary range is $195K to $250K USD, with potential eligibility for performance-based incentives.
- Benefits include health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings, other retirement programs, and employee assistance programs.
- Hybrid work arrangement requires colleagues to work in their local office or onsite with clients at least three days per week; office-based teams identify at least one weekly anchor day.
- The role is available across Oliver Wyman offices including New York, Boston, Chicago, and DC.
- Oliver Wyman provides a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment and reasonable accommodation support.
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About Marsh & McLennan Companies
Marsh McLennan is a global professional services firm providing risk, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, health, wealth, and management consulting to corporations, governments, and nonprofits. It operates through Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman, earning fees and commissions for advisory, analytics, and placement services. Founded in 1905 and headquartered in New York, it is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker MMC.