Lead AI Engineer: Generative AI Systems & Production

Bain & Company; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Bain & Company is seeking an AI Engineer for the AIS team to design, build, and deploy generative AI systems that translate complex business problems into scalable AI applications. You will work alongside consultants, data scientists, and engineers to move prototypes into production and deliver measurable client impact.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, collaboration across engineering and product teams, and opportunities to mentor junior members within Bain's AI-driven advisory practice.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in software engineering, ML engineering, or applied AI roles with hands-on building responsibilities.
• Shipping generative AI features or systems end-to-end, from prototyping through production.
• Clear communication skills to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of end-to-end generative AI systems, including multi-agent workflows and production-grade AI applications.
• Build and iterate on multi-component AI pipelines, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Fine-tuning and parameter-efficient tuning.
• Embedding generation and optimization.
• Hybrid retrieval strategies (vector, graph, keyword).
• Implement reasoning, tool use, function calling, and orchestration across AI workflows.
• Build and contribute to agentic systems with separation of concerns, memory architecture, and tool integration.
• Contribute across the full stack: model experimentation, evaluation design, and production system deployment.
• Build and maintain APIs, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native deployments with observability and reliability.
• Support GenAIOps processes for testing, regression evaluation, latency monitoring, and continual improvement.

Skills

Software engineering

ML engineering

Applied AI

Hands-on

Prompt engineering

Tools

Orchestration frameworks

Vector databases

Graph databases

Model + API ecosystems

Job description

Bain & Company is seeking an AI Engineer for the AIS team to design, build, and deploy generative AI systems that translate complex business problems into scalable AI applications. You will work alongside consultants, data scientists, and engineers to move prototypes into production and deliver measurable client impact.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, collaboration across engineering and product teams, and opportunities to mentor junior members within Bain's AI-driven advisory practice.