AI/ML Engineering Director

Director Of Ai/Ml Engineering

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As the Director of AI/ML Engineering within BCG's Data Layer Team, you will lead, and operationalize the intelligence layer that transforms BCG's vast data landscape into AI-ready, high-value capabilities. You will direct the design, development, and optimization of AI/ML systems - particularly LLM-powered reasoning, retrieval, enrichment, and knowledge synthesis - that enable BCG's GenAI applications (e.g., PA GenAI tools, AI copilots) to deliver accurate, safe, and context-aware insights at scale.

You will own the technical strategy for how data becomes usable in advanced AI workflows: from ingestion, semantic modeling, embeddings, retrieval architectures, and model pipelines to the construction of reusable AI services and APIs/MCPs that support multiple use cases across the firm.

You will lead an engineering team and collaborate closely with Product Owners, Data Engineers, Solution Architects and domain experts to ensure our AI/ML systems are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards. This is a highly visible strategic role shaping BCG's long-term AI enablement agenda.

Key responsibilities

AI/ML Engineering Leadership & Strategy

• Define and own the AI/ML engineering strategy for the Intelligence Layer, ensuring alignment with Data Layer vision and enterprise architecture principles
• Architect end-to-end AI and LLM systems (RAG pipelines, embeddings, retrieval frameworks, model orchestration) to make BCG's data actionable and consumable by GenAI applications.

Technical Design & Delivery of AI Systems

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable pipelines for data preprocessing, feature/embedding generation, knowledge graph construction, semantic indexing, and retrieval optimization.
• Oversee integration of AI services into enterprise systems, ensuring reliability, security, observability, and compliance with internal standards.

Building the Intelligence Layer

• Partner with Product Owners, Data Engineers and Architects to ensure pipelines reflect highest standards of data quality, provenance, governance, and ML-readiness.
• Drive implementation of advanced retrieval, reasoning, and grounding systems to support BCG's internal GenAI products.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence

• Collaborate with Product Owners and GenAI teams to translate user needs into technical capabilities, ensuring measurable, high-value outcomes for consulting teams and practice areas.
• Engage with TAL, PPL, and other engineering chapters to align resource strategy, scale best practices, and evolve AI/ML engineering capabilities.

Quality, Performance, and Innovation

• Ensure systems meet stringent performance, accuracy, stability, and resilience requirements -leveraging expertise such as prompt engineering, LLM optimization, evaluation frameworks, and multi-agent pipelines.
• Introduce emerging techniques (fine-tuning, model compression, retrieval optimization, evaluators, guardrails) to continuously improve system effectiveness.

Talent Leadership & Chapter Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop Data engineers driving excellence in modern engineering, responsible AI, and advanced ML craftsmanship.
• Contribute to community building, knowledge sharing, and uplift across the AI/ML and Data Layer engineering chapters.

What You'll Bring

• 12+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, including 3–5 years leading teams building production-grade ML/LLM systems.
• Demonstrated expertise in LLM-based system design, including embeddings, retrieval architectures (VectorDBs, OpenSearch, semantic search), RAG patterns, and multi-agent systems.
• Strong software engineering background across Python, modern ML libraries, APIs/microservices, and cloud-native infrastructure (Containers, Kubernetes).
• Deep understanding of data engineering, modelling, and pipeline design to support ML workloads (aligns with AI/ML MSD3 requirement to design infrastructure for ML/AI systems).
• Proven ability to define architecture strategy, technical roadmaps, and solution blueprints for complex AI/ML systems at enterprise scale.
• Exceptional cross-functional leadership: able to influence senior stakeholders, resolve ambiguity, and set direction across distributed teams.
• Strong grounding in data governance, model evaluation, responsible AI, and security considerations for enterprise deployments.

Who You'll Work With

• GenAI Product Portfolio Lead (PPL), Technical Area Lead (TAL) and Data Layer Product Owner (PO) to shape AI/ML Data strategy and align on resourcing and architecture.
• Data Engineers, Solution Architects and QA engineers to build high-quality, ML-ready pipelines.
• GenAI product teams (CT/PA AI applications) to integrate intelligence-layer services into end-user experiences.
• AI Engineering & LLM Engineering chapters to share best practices, contribute to chapter growth, and align on standards.
• Agile Coaches and Product Owners to drive iterative delivery and ensure alignment with user needs.

Additional info

This is a hybrid role, typically 2–3 days/week in office. Travel requirements are expected to be <5%. Compensation, benefits, and relocation support will follow BCG's global and local policies.

*** For US locations only ***

In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach.

Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.

• The base salary range for this role in Atlanta is $200,000.00 - $244,000.00

This is an estimated range, however, specific base salaries within the range depend on various factors such as experience and skill set. It is not common for new BCG employees to be hired at the high-end of the salary range. BCG regularly reviews its ranges to ensure market competitiveness.

In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 30% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.

All of our plans provide best in class coverage: • Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children • Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs • Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits • Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually • Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities • Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan • Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement • Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month) • Paid sick time on an as needed basis

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