Lead Generative AI Engineer

Bain & Company; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bain & Company is seeking an AI Engineer for its AIS practice to design, build, and deploy generative AI systems at client scale. You will work across the full development lifecycle, collaborating with senior engineers, product managers, and data scientists in a hands-on role.

This position emphasizes production-grade systems, responsible AI practices, and collaboration with Bain's ethics teams. Travel and in-person collaboration are required; Bain offers comprehensive benefits and a strong

Qualifications

• Experience shipping generative AI features or systems end-to-end.
• Strong collaboration across engineering, product, and data science teams.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of end-to-end generative AI systems.
• Build and iterate on multi-component AI pipelines (RAG, embedding generation, hybrid retrieval).
• Implement guardrails, HITL workflows, and safe AI practices.
• Partner with product, engineering, data science, and ethics teams to build robust AI systems.
• Design and implement evaluation frameworks for latency, accuracy, and cost.

Skills

Software engineering

ML engineering

Applied AI

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Prompt engineering

Team mentorship

Client-facing experience

Tools

Vector databases

Graph databases

Model deployment

Job description

Bain & Company is seeking an AI Engineer for its AIS practice to design, build, and deploy generative AI systems at client scale. You will work across the full development lifecycle, collaborating with senior engineers, product managers, and data scientists in a hands-on role.

This position emphasizes production-grade systems, responsible AI practices, and collaboration with Bain's ethics teams. Travel and in-person collaboration are required; Bain offers comprehensive benefits and a strong