Machine Learning & AI Engineer – Managing Consultant

IBM is hiring a Managing Consultant ML/AI Engineer to own machine learning and AI workstreams from ambiguous business needs through design and delivery. The role includes selecting methods and architecture, ensuring quality and maintainability, mentoring junior engineers, engaging stakeholders, and communicating actionable results.

Responsibilities:

• Own a workstream:translate an ambiguous business need into a concrete technical approach, choose ML / AI methods and architecture, and defend technical implementation based on performance and trade-offs
• Design for maintainability:make design decisions that hold up over time; define the tests, validation, and checks that keep your workstream correct as it evolves and guarantee quality
• Design AI-accelerated workflows:decide where modern AI/LLM tooling fits (and where it doesn't) in your workstream, and set up those workflows for repeatable results
• Mentor:guide 1–2 junior engineers — review their work, unblock them, raise their bar
• Engage stakeholders:work directly with business/domain stakeholders to gather requirements and report progress
• Interpret Data and Communicate Results: Clearly and effectively communicate the results of Machine Learning initiatives to stakeholders, providing actionable insights and recommendations

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Strong software engineering: designs maintainable, well-architected solutions; sets and enforces testing/validation for own scope; fluent with version control workflows and reviews
• End-to-end ML/AI delivery: has independently taken ML/AI work from ambiguous problem to delivered solution, including method & algorithm selection and performance/validation
• Judgment under ambiguity: frames problems, weighs trade-offs, and makes appropriate decisions
• Detail & execution: plans and sequences a workstream; manages its risks and dependencies to on-time delivery
• Modern AI tooling: effective, deliberate use of LLM/agentic tools to accelerate a team's work
• Emerging leadership: experience mentoring or reviewing others' work
• Communication & bridging business and technology: engages business/domain stakeholders directly; turns their requirements into a technical approach and explains trade-offs back in terms they understand
• IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship
• Master's Degree