Senior AI Engineering Leader — GenAI Systems Architect

Bain & Company; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 258,000 - 293,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary performance bonus

401(k) match

Benefits & wellness program

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Paid time off

Long-term disability

Fitness reimbursements

Job summary

Bain & Company, Seattle, WA, seeks an Expert Senior Manager / Associate Partner AI Engineer to architect and scale next‑generation generative AI systems. You will lead cross‑functional teams across engineering, product, data science, ethics, and clients through research to production deployment.

You will own end‑to‑end AI solutions, collaborate with Bain partners, and drive impactful enterprise outcomes while upholding Bain’s Responsible AI standards.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in software/ML engineering or applied AI with hands-on building roles.
• Experience leading complex generative AI programs from conception to production.
• Strong executive communication with business stakeholders.
• Track record of leading engineering teams and mentoring talent.
• Advanced prompt engineering, context engineering, and conversation design.
• Experience with evaluation design and data labeling for LLM apps.
• Deep familiarity with advanced RAG architectures and agentic systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy end-to-end generative AI systems and multi-agent workflows.
• Architect multi-component pipelines including RAG, tuning, embeddings, and hybrid retrieval.
• Lead production deployment, observability, and cloud-native deployment.
• Build scalable GenAIOps for automated testing and latency monitoring.
• Balance performance, safety, and cost with responsible AI practices and HITL workflows.
• Partner with product/engineering/data science/ethics/infrastructure to ship robust AI systems.
• Mentor teams on best practices including RAG, agents, and prompt engineering.

Skills

Executive communication

Leadership

Engineering leadership

GenAI design

RAG architectures

System design

Cost optimization

Ambiguity navigation

Mentoring

Tools

Orchestration frameworks

Vector databases

Graph databases

Model + API ecosystems

Job description

Bain & Company, Seattle, WA, seeks an Expert Senior Manager / Associate Partner AI Engineer to architect and scale next‑generation generative AI systems. You will lead cross‑functional teams across engineering, product, data science, ethics, and clients through research to production deployment.

You will own end‑to‑end AI solutions, collaborate with Bain partners, and drive impactful enterprise outcomes while upholding Bain’s Responsible AI standards.