Data Scientist/ AI Engineer (Forward Deployed) - Team Lead

Defining how AI and finance work together — securely, intelligently, and at scale.
We at Unique AI are building a generative AI platform that financial institutions trust with high-stakes work: finance-grade in its reliability, auditability, and security. Banks, asset managers, and hedge funds use our platform to put LLM-based agents to work inside real workflows — investment research, client advisory, risk, and compliance. Our mission is to augment financial professionals, not replace them: AI takes on the repetitive and routine so people can spend their time on judgment, clients, and performance. We offer an inclusive environment at Unique and we encourage all genders and all neuro-diversities to apply.

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Data Scientist Team Lead (FSI Enterprise Solutions), who is passionate about working directly with clients to develop AI Agents using Unique AI’s SDK. 

Requirements

• Experience: 7+ years of experience as a data scientist or of building ML/AI products, including 2+ years developing LLM-based systems; experience in financial services (hedge funds, asset management, trading, or fintech) is a plus
• Hands-on experience with LLMs: including tool calling and low-level experimentation beyond frameworks, as well as prompt engineering for customer use cases
• Production GenAI delivery: demonstrated experience designing, deploying, operating and evaluating LLM-based applications in production environments, including agentic systems with tool calling and orchestration
• History of successfully delivering projects for clients: translating customer requirements into tailored solutions
• Team lead experience: 4+ years of successful team lead experience, ideally in consulting/FD set up including handling staffing topics on top of team development
• Communication skills: exceptional communication and documentation skills; comfortable working with technical and business stakeholders, including senior client representatives, and communicating clearly when navigating ambiguity
• Languages: English (French and/ or German is a plus)
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated experience shipping production AI systems

Responsibilities

• Spend time with clients, enabling them to maximize the value of our platform while providing hands-on support and expertise
• Lead our Global Forward Deployed Data Science team: coordinate cross-functional dependencies, remove blockers, solve client escalation, set priorities and run regular 1:1s 
• Be the primary technical point of contact for clients, ensuring smooth integration and adoption of Unique’s GenAI solutions while helping them build AI Agents using our SDK
• Collaborate closely with internal product and engineering teams to tailor solutions to client-specific requirements.

Benefits

• Leading Company 💪 A chance to be part of a leading company in a rapidly evolving industry 
• Innovative & Impactful Projects 🚀 Engage in groundbreaking projects within the Generative AI space. Contribute towards building the foundations enabling financial institutions to operationalize AI.
• Autonomy 🧠 You’ll play a key role in shaping the next phase of the Forward Deployed function as the business scales
• Culture 🌿 A modern company with flat hierarchies that focuses on a people-oriented culture and places great emphasis on transparency and open communication 
• Hybrid set up 🧑‍💻🏢 Based in Zurich with flexibility for remote days
• You will join our internal AI Academy, where you’ll rapidly level up your skills in working with cutting-edge LLM tooling and building production-grade AI agents and workflows