Senior AI Engineering Leader — GenAI Systems & Strategy

Bain & Company; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 232,200 - 283,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Medical, dental & vision

Paid time off

Fitness reimbursements

Life & long‑term disability

Job summary

Bain & Company is seeking an Expert Senior Manager / Associate Partner AI Engineer in Austin to architect, build, and scale next‑generation generative AI systems for client solutions. You will lead cross‑functional teams across engineering, product, data science, ethics, and client stakeholders.

You will own the full lifecycle from research to production and collaborate with Bain’s ecosystem partners, mentoring teams and driving responsible AI governance.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in software/ML engineering or applied AI with hands-on building responsibilities.
• Experience leading complex generative AI programs from conception to production.
• Strong executive communication to translate technical concepts for 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 RAG architectures (vector, hybrid, graph) and agentic architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy end-to-end generative AI systems and multi-agent workflows.
• Architect multi-component pipelines including RAG, tuning, embedding, and hybrid retrieval.
• Integrate reasoning, tool use, function calling, and orchestration across workflows.
• Engineer advanced agentic systems with scalable tool ecosystems and memory architecture.
• Lead research, experimentation, evaluation design, and production deployment.
• Oversee API development, microservices, CI/CD, observability, and cloud deployment.
• Build GenAIOps processes for automated testing, latency monitoring, and continual improvement.
• Balance performance with safety, responsible AI, and cost considerations with guardrails and HITL workflows.

Skills

AI systems design

GenAI architectures

Leadership

Client-facing consulting

MLOps & production

Ambiguity navigation

Tools

Orchestration frameworks

Vector databases

Graph databases

Model & API ecosystems

Job description

Bain & Company is seeking an Expert Senior Manager / Associate Partner AI Engineer in Austin to architect, build, and scale next‑generation generative AI systems for client solutions. You will lead cross‑functional teams across engineering, product, data science, ethics, and client stakeholders.

You will own the full lifecycle from research to production and collaborate with Bain’s ecosystem partners, mentoring teams and driving responsible AI governance.