Senior AI Engineer: Generative AI Systems Lead

Bain & Company; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 179,500 - 203,500; Full time

Job summary

Bain & Company is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to design, build, and ship generative AI systems for enterprise clients. You’ll work across the full development lifecycle alongside Bain consultants, data scientists, and product managers, delivering scalable AI applications and governance.

You will contribute to end‑to‑end AI pipelines, collaborate with senior engineers, and mentor junior team members while navigating in‑person collaboration requirements and client engagements.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in software engineering, ML engineering, or applied AI roles with hands‑on building responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience shipping generative AI features or systems end‑to‑end, from prototyping through production.
• Clear communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non‑technical collaborators and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and data science teams; mentoring peers is a plus.
• Solid prompt engineering and context engineering skills; familiarity with conversation design principles.
• Working knowledge of evaluation design, experimentation frameworks, and data labeling strategies for LLM applications.
• Experience with RAG architectures (vector-based retrieval) and agentic patterns (tool use, memory management); HITL concepts.

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 RAG, fine‑tuning, embedding generation, and hybrid retrieval strategies.
• Implement reasoning, tool use, function calling, and orchestration across AI workflows.
• Build and contribute to agentic systems with strong engineering principles around separation of concerns and memory management.
• 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 in mind.
• Support GenAIOps processes for automated testing, regression evaluation, latency monitoring, and continual improvement.
• Balance performance, safety, responsible AI principles, and cost across system design; implement guardrails and HITL workflows.

Skills

Generative AI

ML Engineering

Prototyping

Production Deployment

Communication

Cross-functional Collaboration

Prompt Engineering

Evaluation Design

RAG/Agentic AI

Tools

Orchestration frameworks

Vector databases

Graph databases

Model & API ecosystems

Job description

Bain & Company is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to design, build, and ship generative AI systems for enterprise clients. You’ll work across the full development lifecycle alongside Bain consultants, data scientists, and product managers, delivering scalable AI applications and governance.

You will contribute to end‑to‑end AI pipelines, collaborate with senior engineers, and mentor junior team members while navigating in‑person collaboration requirements and client engagements.