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WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK
We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world’s best places to work. We are currently the top ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list and have earned the #1 overall spot a record seven times. Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don’t happen by chance. They require intentional focus on bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment. We hire people with exceptional talent and create an environment in which every individual can thrive professionally and personally.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
You’ll join our Engineering experts within the AI, Insights & Solutions (AIS) team. This team is part of Bain’s digital capabilities practice, which includes a group of experts in analytics, engineering, product management, and design. In this multidisciplinary environment, you'll leverage deep technical expertise with business acumen to help clients tackle their most transformative challenges. You’ll work on integrated teams alongside our general consultants and clients to develop data-driven strategies and innovative solutions. Together, we create human-centric solutions that leverage the power of data and artificial intelligence to drive competitive advantage for our clients. Our collaborative and supportive work environment fosters creativity and continuous learning, enabling us to consistently deliver exceptional results.
WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM
As an AI Solutions Architect in the Software Engineering, AIS team , you will lead the development and application of technical solutions to address complex problems in various industries. You will guide a diverse engineering team through the entire engineering life cycle. Your responsibilities will include designing, developing, optimizing, and deploying cutting-edge software engineering solutions and infrastructure at the production scale required by the world’s largest companies.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Collaborate closely with and influence general consulting teams to identify software solutions to client business problems, and to appropriately scope, prioritize and execute those solutions
- A technical leader responsible for end-to-end technical solution delivery on client cases (from solution architecture to hands-on development work)
- Lead key parts of the software development life cycle, including architecture design, writing clean code, conducting code reviews, writing documentation, unit/integration tests, identifying issues and resolutions
- Participate in expert client advisory activities that require deep expertise in software engineering with distributed systems, AI and application architecture
- Collaborate on (or lead) the development of re-usable common frameworks, model and components that can be highly leveraged to address common software engineering problems across industries and business functions
- Work with the team and other senior leaders to create a great working environment that attracts other great engineers
- Coach engineering teams at our clients and partners to raise their capabilities and ensure that our work is successfully deployed to the highest standards
- Drive best demonstrated practices in software engineering, and share learnings with team members in AIS about theoretical and technical developments in software engineering
- Drive industry-leading innovations that translate into great impact for our clients in case work
- Participate in recruiting and onboarding for other team members
- Travel is required (30%)
ABOUT YOU
Technical Skills and Knowledge:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5 years minimum experience and 3+ years at Senior or Staff level, or equivalent
- Track record of leading and collaborating on strategic initiatives
- Experience in building and shipping multi-tier software products as well as next-gen applications powered by GenAI and AgenticAI
- Expert knowledge (5+ years) of Python. Deep experience with additional server-side frameworks and technologies such as FastAPI, Node.js, Flask.
- Hands-on experience in architecting and implementing agentic systems and workflows (tool use, memory, orchestration, planning, multi-step reasoning)
- Experience building applications with LLMs and GenAI frameworks (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, LlamaIndex)
- Experience with Cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
- Experience working in accordance with DevSecOps principles, and familiarity with industry deployment best practices using CI/CD tools, AIOps and infrastructure as code (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform)
- Strong computer science fundaments in data structures, algorithms, automated testing, object-oriented programming, performance complexity, and implications of computer architecture on software performance.
- Experience with data architecture, database schema design, database scalability and SQL. Experience working with vector databases (Pinecone, FAISS, cloud-native Vector DB offerings)
- Hands-on experience working with data pipelines that serve application-layer GenAI/AgenticAI use cases
- Knowledge of AI safety, evaluation and responsible AI practices
- Experience with client-side technologies such as React, Angular, Vue.js, HTML and CSS
- Understanding of data security and privacy regulations, key topics in cybersecurity, authentication and authorization mechanisms (including cloud IAM)
- Experience working according to agile principles
- Fluency in Korean and English required for this role
Interpersonal Skills:
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain and discuss technicalities of solutions, algorithms and techniques with colleagues and clients from other disciplines
- Curiosity, proactivity and critical thinking
- Ability to collaborate with people at all levels and with multi-office/region teams
- Ability to work independently and juggle priorities to thrive in a fast paced and ambiguous environment, while also collaborating as part of a team in complex situations
Other Experience:
- Relevant professional hands-on experience in web development, programming languages, version control, software design pattern, infrastructure and deployment, integration and unit testing implementation
- Commercial acumen and understanding of business models
