Machine Learning & AI Engineer - Managing Consultant

IBM; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off and holidays

Training and development resources

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking a Managing Consultant ML/AI Engineer to own an end-to-end workstream, turning ambiguous needs into concrete designs and delivering with minimal guidance. You will shape architecture, ensure quality, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with business stakeholders to drive measurable results.

You will leverage modern AI tooling and maintainable software practices, translating insights into actionable recommendations across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred.
• Strong software engineering with maintainable, well-architected solutions.
• End-to-end ML/AI delivery from problem to deployed solution.
• Ability to frame problems, weigh trade-offs, and decide under ambiguity.
• Experience mentoring or reviewing others' work.
• Excellent communication to bridge business and technology.

Responsibilities

• Own a workstream: translate an ambiguous business need into a concrete technical approach and defend design decisions.
• Design for maintainability: define tests, validation, and checks to guarantee quality.
• Design AI-accelerated workflows: set up AI/LLM tooling where appropriate.
• Mentor 1–2 junior engineers: review their work and unblock them.
• Engage stakeholders: gather requirements and report progress.
• Interpret data and communicate results: provide actionable insights.

Skills

Strong software engineering

End-to-end ML/AI delivery

Judgment under ambiguity

Detail & execution

Modern AI tooling

Emerging leadership

Communication & bridging business and‑

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

LLM tooling

Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Managing Consultant ML/AI Engineer, you own a workstream end-to-end: taking an ambiguous ask, shaping it into a concrete design and plan, and delivering it with minimal guidance. You are responsible for the quality and correctness of everything in your workstream, and you begin to lift the engineers around you.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• 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.

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 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.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration.

We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

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.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.