Global AI/ML Engineer Manager

Overview

As a GenAI-focused engineering leader at BCG, you shape AI-powered products and platform capabilities. You will mentor and grow engineers while hands-on contributing to code and architecture. You’ll set standards, drive secure, scalable APIs, and refine AI-enabled architectures in collaboration with product and research teams. Expect to advance agile practices and leverage LLMs to deliver transformative outcomes for clients and the firm.

Responsibilities

• Build, coach, and mentor engineers; lead by example in code and architecture
• Champion clean architecture, maintainable code, and API quality across squads
• Hands-on backend development with Python (FastAPI/Flask)
• Architect and support secure, scalable APIs that integrate with LLMs and cloud platforms (AWS)
• Promote DevOps, CI/CD, and automated quality assurance
• Drive adoption of LLMs and AI engineering tools; work with product/research teams
• Identify system-level tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities in AI-enabled architectures
• Contribute to technical strategy, experimentation, and roadmap definition

Key requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering with strong backend/API expertise in Python (FastAPI or Flask)
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with LLMs: building RAG solutions, agentic workflows, LLM integration into products
• Experience in cloud-native development (AWS) and DevOps
• Strong systems thinking and architectural decision-making
• Proven ability to design resilient, scalable software
• Experience in Agile, product-oriented environments with cross-functional collaboration
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Inspiring and enabling others
• Coaching and developing people
• Systems thinking and long-term scalability mindset
• Python (FastAPI or Flask)
• LLM integration and RAG
• Agentic workflows and MCP servers

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