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 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.

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.

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

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