Data and AI Engineer - July 2027

The role

The Data and AI Engineer performs technical work across client delivery, applied R&D, and internal capability-building. This role involves data engineering, applied analytics, machine learning, and AI-enabled workflows.

What you will do

• Prepare, inspect, clean, reconstruct, and validate data from various sources
• Use Python, SQL, notebooks, and version control to build reproducible workflows
• Identify data limitations, quality issues, assumptions, blockers, and open questions
• Support applied analytics, machine learning, and AI-enabled workflows
• Contribute to workflows involving text extraction, classification, summarization, embeddings, RAG, and automation
• Use AI tools to accelerate learning and execution
• Support applied R&D by prototyping, testing, and evaluating new tools and methods
• Communicate progress, technical findings, assumptions, and limitations to stakeholders
• Participate in code review, collaborative problem solving, and documentation
• Help turn lessons from project work into reusable team assets

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related field
• 0-3 years of professional experience in data engineering, analytics, applied AI, machine learning, software development, research, or related technical work
• Hands-on experience building at least one working AI-enabled application, tool, or automated workflow
• Ability to explain the problem addressed, individual contribution, technologies used, and solution evaluation
• Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces
• Strong foundation in Python for data analysis, scripting, automation, or prototyping
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational data concepts
• Foundational understanding of statistics, data analysis, machine learning, or experimental evaluation
• Ability to work with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
• Familiarity with software development practices such as Git, notebooks, code review, documentation, testing, and reproducible workflows
• Ability to learn new tools quickly
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Exposure to generative AI workflows, such as prompt design, embeddings, vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, summarization, classification, or model evaluation
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure or comparable environments

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package
• Base salary
• Bonus program for eligible roles

Before you apply

• Must be available to begin full-time employment in July 2027
• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship

About the company

The Brattle Group is a privately held, global economics consulting firm that answers complex economic, finance, and regulatory questions. It has 500 professionals across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.