{"id":3568831,"url":"https://alion.io/job/bain-company-lead-machine-learning-engineer","title":"Lead Machine Learning Engineer","company":{"id":1755715,"name":"Bain & Company","domain":"bain.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/bain-com","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Welcome to the Jungle","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Mumbai, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":23000,"max_usd":60000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":47},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"FastAPI","optional":false},{"name":"Flask","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Post-training","optional":false},{"name":"pySpark","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Spark","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-30T17:19:47Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-10-30T17:19:47Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Application submission deadline 26 November \n\nWHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK\nWe 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.\n\nWHO YOU'LL WORK WITH\nYou'll join our Machine Learning and Data Science experts within the Applied Tech & AI team. This team is part of Bain's digital capabilities practice, which includes 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 harness 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.\nWHERE YOU'LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM\nAs a Lead Machine Learning Engineer, you'll help drive innovation by integrating AI and data-driven solutions into strategy and execution. Whether launching new ventures, reimagining user experiences, or building tech-enabled products, you'll work at the intersection of analytics and impact—turning bold strategies into breakthrough results.Bain offers comprehensive benefits and flexible policies that are designed to support you, so you can thrive personally and professionally.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nDesign, build, and deliver statistical/ML models and agentic AI/LLM solutions to solve high-impact client problems.\nArchitect and implement production-grade ML systems by building enterprise-grade services, applying MLOps and CI/CD for reliable deployment and monitoring, and ensuring high standards in engineering quality and documentation.\nPartner with general consulting teams and client stakeholders to translate business problems into ML solutions, prioritize work, and enable enterprise‑scale AI transformation.\nContinuously research emerging frameworks and state‑of‑the‑art AI (e.g., LLMs, agents, retrieval, post-training, etc.) and convert learnings into reusable frameworks, components, and accelerators used across industries and functions.\nShare knowledge and mentor others on best practices tools, and approaches in applied machine learning and AI engineering.\nContribute to internal R&D and learning initiatives to advance Bain's AI capabilities and foster continuous innovation between projects.\nABOUT YOU\nMust Have:\n5+ years of relevant experience or an advanced degree\nStrong theoretical and practical experience in machine learning\nProficiency in Python, with solid software engineering foundations — including clean code practices, testing, version control.\nExperience with data wrangling, data analysis and modeling using python, sql, pyspark or similar tools\nExperience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and deploying ML/AI applications.\nComprehensive understanding of the ML lifecycle, from experimentation and model development to deployment.\nExperience productionizing and exposing ML models (e.g., using FastAPI, Flask, or similar frameworks) for seamless integration into applications and platforms.\nExcellent communicator and collaborator, able to align with technical and business stakeholders in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.\nCurious and growth-oriented, passionate about exploring new tools, mentoring peers, and sharing best practices.\nAdaptable and self-driven, comfortable operating with autonomy, embracing feedback, and learning new skills to deliver client impact.\nLocation: New Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai (Hybrid)\nTravel is required. This position requires regional travel away from your home office/primary working location.\nTravel frequency and destinations will vary based on project needs.\n\nNice to Have:\nExperience with R&D or academic research\nInterest in publishing technical content and mentoring others","description_format":"text","description_chars":4579,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Home office"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Management Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-31T14:09:45Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["seen:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-01T06:10:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/bain-company-lead-machine-learning-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/bain-company-lead-machine-learning-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-01T06:54:57Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":10734,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-02T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1755715},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1755715"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fbain-company-lead-machine-learning-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fbain-company-lead-machine-learning-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fbain-company-lead-machine-learning-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/bain-company-lead-machine-learning-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fbain-company-lead-machine-learning-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3568831}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"bain.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3568831},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}