Data and AI Engineer - July 2027

The Brattle Group, a privately held, global economics consulting firm, is looking for a Data and AI Engineer to join our San Francisco, CA office to start in July 2027.

The Data & AI Engineer is an early-career role within Brattle’s Data & AI Engineering team, focused on hands-on technical work across client delivery, applied R&D, and internal capability-building. This role is designed for candidates who are strong builders, fast learners, and clear communicators, and who want to develop technical judgment in a setting where problems are varied, ambiguous, and often time-sensitive.

This is not a narrowly defined pipeline role or a heads-down engineering track. Data & AI Engineers work across data engineering, applied analytics, machine learning, and AI-enabled workflows, staying close to implementation while learning how technical choices affect real client work.

Candidates are not expected to arrive as experts across data engineering, solution architecture, and applied AI research. They are expected to be hands-on, curious, coachable, and comfortable learning quickly.

Where This Role Sits at Brattle:

The Data & AI Engineering team is a specialized technical group embedded within Brattle’s consulting staff. The team supports client work while also serving as an applied R&D function for the firm: researching emerging technologies, prototyping new analytical and AI-enabled workflows, and translating useful methods into reusable capabilities.

The team partners with economists, consultants, industry experts, and internal stakeholders to improve how the firm works with data, analytics, machine learning, and AI through project delivery, reusable tools, documentation, training, and knowledge-sharing.

Data & AI Engineers work under the guidance of more experienced technical leads, including Senior Data & AI Engineers, Solutions Architects, and Research Engineers. As experience grows, the role can develop toward deeper execution ownership, increased responsibility for solution design, more advanced AI and research work, or some combination of those paths.

Nature of the Work:

Data & AI Engineers work on problems where the technical path is often unclear, the data is imperfect, and the constraints are real. Source materials may be incomplete, inconsistent, degraded through prior systems, or difficult to interpret. Some matters also involve restricted or confidential workflows that shape how data can be accessed, handled, or shared.

The role requires practical judgment. There may be multiple valid approaches, each with trade-offs, and limited ability to go back to the source for clarification. Data & AI Engineers are expected to reason carefully from imperfect inputs, document assumptions, surface limitations, and help build solutions that are defensible, reproducible, timely, and fit for purpose.

Project timelines may shift quickly based on external events, negotiations, litigation deadlines, or client needs. Some work is recurring and operational; some is one-off or exploratory. The right candidate is a resourceful, practical builder: someone who can stay organized, adapt to changing constraints, and make progress without losing rigor or composure.

The team environment is academic, collegial, grounded, and highly collaborative. We value curiosity, humility, initiative, clear communication, and practical intelligence. The work can be technically advanced, but the culture is not ego-driven. We are looking for people who are resourceful, friendly, proactive, flexible, and able to work well with others in a global, connected consulting environment.

Some of the day-to-day responsibilities of this role include:

You will not be expected to own full workstreams on day one, but you will be expected to learn quickly, take initiative, and stretch beyond a narrow technical lane.

THE CANDIDATE

Brattle offers a competitive benefits package, base salary, and bonus program for eligible roles based on individual and firm performance. The anticipated base gross salary range for this position in San Francisco, CA is $100,000 - $126,000 annually. Actual salary will depend on a variety of factors, including experience and training.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

The Brattle Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, citizenship status, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender identity and expression, age, height, weight, domestic partner status, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or HIV status (AIDS/HIV status), genetic information, sexual orientation, disability (where the applicant or employee is qualified to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation), marital status, veteran status, political affiliation, drug or alcohol abuse or alcoholism, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.

We encourage all applicants to click here to review our full Equal Employer Opportunity Statement.

THE EMPLOYER

The Brattle Group answers complex economic, finance, and regulatory questions for corporations, law firms, and governments around the world. We are distinguished by the clarity of our insights and the credibility of our experts, which include leading international academics and industry specialists. Brattle has 500 talented professionals across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. For more information, please visit brattle.com​.​​​​​