Find Jobs
Find Jobs Near You – Available Work in Your Location
ML/AI Engineer Senior Managing Consultant
Choose a Location
This role is available in multiple locations. Pick one to apply.
Career Insights for Machine Learning Engineer
See where this job fits in the broader career landscape. Knowing your career path helps you see what's possible from here.
Scorecard
Based on national data
Review key factors to help you decide if this role fits your goals. How is this calculated?
What they do
A Machine Learning Engineer specializes in designing, building, and deploying machine learning models. They utilize statistical and mathematical techniques, parallelizing processing, hyperparameter tuning, and other optimization methodologies to improve model performance. Responsibilities also include collecting and preprocessing large datasets, conducting exploratory data analysis, working closely with data engineers to understand data requirements, and engineer input variables for machine learning models.
$168,439 / year median in the U.S.
Job Description
- Introduction
- A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide.
- Your role and responsibilities
- As a Senior Managing Consultant, you are the hands-on technical driver for a project.
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 pipelinesDesign Scalable ML Platforms:
MLOps infrastructure, enterprise integrationMentor & Collaborate:
Cross-functional partnerships, team buildingThis job can be performed from anywhere in the US.- 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.
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Benefits
- Dental Insurance