ML/AI Engineer – Senior Managing Consultant

International Business Machines Corporation; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Stock Purchase Plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

AI learning platform

Diversity and inclusion groups

Job summary

IBM Consulting seeks a Senior Managing Consultant to drive ML/AI solutions, define technical approaches, and lead a small team across projects. You will own delivery, ensure code quality, and translate business needs into actionable technical outcomes.

As a hands-on leader, you will mentor 2–4 engineers, manage risk, and communicate results to stakeholders while advancing scalable ML platforms and modern AI techniques.

Qualifications

• Deep software-engineering discipline with rigorous testing/validation standards.
• Technical leadership of a small team guiding approach and reviews.
• Delivery ownership including planning, sequencing and risk management.
• Advanced ML/AI knowledge across methods, LLMs and agentic approaches.
• Excellent communication bridging business needs and technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Turn business needs into ML/AI solutions and design models.
• Set engineering standards for code quality, tests, and reproducibility.
• Serve as the technical point of contact translating business needs.
• Lead a team of 2–4 and grow team capabilities.
• Own the delivery plan and ensure on-track progress.
• Communicate results and actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to embed ML insights into decisions.
• Leverage modern LLMs and AI platforms to design scalable pipelines.
• Mentor and collaborate across cross-functional teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Delivery ownership

Advanced ML/AI

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

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 Senior Managing Consultant, you are the hands-on technical driver for a project. You define the technical approach and drive the code and implementation, building the hardest, highest-risk parts of the solution. You guide a small team, keep the work correct, and pull the delivery through by example.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Turn needs into Machine Learning / AI Solutions:Take high ambiguity from the business and define the problem worth solving. Design and implement systems and models to solve complex business problems, selecting relevant features and algorithms to achieve desired outcomes.
• Set the engineering bar by example: establish standards for code quality, testing/validation, version control, and reproducibility — and hold them by writing to that bar yourself. You take on the pieces where getting the details right matters most.
• Be the technical point of contact: translate business needs into the build and report progress to stakeholders on the solution.
• Guide a small team:lead a team of 2–4. Assign and review work, unblock people, and grow them while building alongside them, not above them.
• Own delivery of the solution:own the plan and sequencing, manage the technical risk, and keep the solution on track.
• Communicate Results: Clearly articulate the results of Machine Learning initiatives, providing actionable insights and recommendations to drive business outcomes.
• Drive Informed Decision-Making: Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate Machine Learning insights into business decision-making processes, driving informed strategic choices.
• Leverage Agentic AI & Modern LLMs: Claude, Copilot, LLM agents, prompt engineering, intelligent pipelines
• Design Scalable ML Platforms: MLOps infrastructure, enterprise integration
• Mentor & Collaborate: Cross-functional partnerships, team building

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

• Deep software-engineering discipline: sets testing/validation and reproducibility standards for a team and lives them in the code; known for rigor and correctness.
• Technical leadership of a small team: has guided a small team's technical work, owning the approach and reviewing others, while remaining a primary builder.
• Delivery ownership: credible at planning and sequencing a solution and managing its technical risk to delivery.
• Advanced ML/AI: broad command of ML/AI methods and modern AI/LLM/agentic approaches; sound judgment on where each applies.
• Communication & bridging business and technology: the primary bridge between business and engineering for the solution. Comfortable being the technical point of contact, translating business needs into the build and technical reality back into decisions stakeholders can act on.

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.

Job Title

Date posted

30-Sep-2026

Job ID

131401

City / Township / Village

PARAMUS, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, Charlotte, Irvine, San Jose, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Francisco, WASHINGTON, Chicago, New York

State / Province

Illinois, Texas, New York, North Carolina, California, New Jersey, District of Columbia

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Data & Analytics

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

147,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

275,000.00

Position type

Professional

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

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