Expert Senior Manager, AI Engineering

Location: Santiago, Chile or São Paulo, Brazil

Company

Bain & Company is a global consulting firm whose AI, Insights & Solutions team develops data-driven strategies and AI-enabled solutions for clients.

What you will do

• Design, build, deploy, and scale end-to-end generative AI systems, multi-agent workflows, and production-grade AI applications.
• Architect pipelines covering RAG, fine-tuning, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reasoning, tool use, function calling, orchestration, memory, and planning.
• Lead AI solutions from research, experimentation, and evaluation design through production deployment and ongoing optimization.
• Oversee APIs, microservices, CI/CD, observability, cloud-native deployment, and GenAIOps for testing, regression evaluation, latency monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Design evaluation frameworks and implement guardrails, fallbacks, red-teaming, and human-in-the-loop workflows aligned with Responsible AI standards.
• Advise executives and clients on AI strategy, architecture, emerging capabilities, and implementation roadmaps; mentor engineering and technical teams.

Requirements

• 8–12+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, applied AI, or related technical roles.
• Significant hands-on experience building and deploying complex AI or machine learning systems.
• Experience leading multi-stack generative AI programs from concept through production.
• Deep expertise in advanced RAG architectures, including vector, hybrid, and graph-based retrieval.
• Experience with agentic architectures, multi-agent systems, tool selection, routing, memory, planning, and reflection.
• Strong knowledge of prompt engineering, context engineering, conversation design, and LLM application evaluation.
• Experience with orchestration frameworks, vector and graph databases, model and API ecosystems, system architecture, and production-grade deployment.
• Familiarity with cost optimization and computational tradeoffs for LLM workloads.
• Experience leading engineering teams, mentoring technical talent, and collaborating across functions; strong executive communication and ability to translate technical concepts into business implications.
• Comfort working in high-ambiguity environments with clients and cross-functional teams.
• Fluent English and mandatory Spanish or Portuguese.

Nice to have

• Client-facing consulting or enterprise transformation experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a multidisciplinary AI, engineering, product, analytics, and design environment alongside consultants and clients.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, data science, ethics, infrastructure, and client stakeholders.
• Supportive and inclusive environment focused on creativity, continuous learning, and professional and personal development.
• Permanent full-time employment.