Artificial Intelligence (AI) Consultant

About the role

The AI Consultant will play a central part in turning AI opportunities into successful outcomes by coordinating the full lifecycle of AI projects and aligning clients with our technical experts across strategy, solution design, and execution.

Responsibilities

• Capture requirements, clarify questions, and provide updates on progress, risks, and key decisions.
• Support the project manager in planning and tracking delivery across multiple AI projects.
• Translate client needs into clear, actionable tasks and monitor execution against agreed timelines and scope.
• Troubleshoot delivery issues, unblock dependencies, escalate risks, and ensure corrective actions are tracked to completion.
• Support internal knowledge sharing and continuous improvement within the AI Practice by capturing lessons learned and developing playbooks and reusable assets.
• Coordinate with cross-service initiatives including AI strategy, AI assistants, custom models, process optimization, policy and procedure optimization, and data standardization/tagging.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 3+ years of experience working in technical or engineering-focused environments supporting structured project delivery.
• Proven track record of coordinating activities across multiple teams and projects simultaneously, including stakeholder management, action tracking, and status reporting.
• Experience collaborating with IT, OT, data/AI, or engineering teams in enterprise or industrial settings.
• Exposure to cloud-based and data/analytics platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP, data platforms, BI/analytics tools); experience in the maritime or industrial sectors is a plus.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate activities across multiple technical projects, teams, and stakeholder groups, ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
• Strong organizational and project support skills, including maintaining project plans, action and RAID logs, documentation repositories, and structured status reports.
• Hands-on experience with common AI/data and IT/OT technology environments, including cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), data platforms, and analytics/BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts, architectures, and workflows, and translate them into clear tasks and follow-up actions for delivery teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence interacting with technical specialists, business stakeholders, and client counterparts.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured, detail-oriented approach to tracking issues, dependencies, and risks.
• Familiarity with collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Git-based repositories to support transparent and traceable project execution.
• Experience working with distributed, international teams and comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities (strongly preferred).
• Awareness of industrial or maritime operational contexts, safety, or regulatory constraints, and how they impact AI and digital delivery (nice to have).

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts, architectures, and workflows, and translate them into clear tasks and follow-up actions for delivery teams.
• Strong organizational and project support skills, including maintaining project plans, action and RAID logs, documentation repositories, and structured status reports.
• Hands-on experience with common AI/data and IT/OT technology environments, including cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), data platforms, and analytics/BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Structured, detail-oriented approach to tracking issues, dependencies, and risks.
• Familiarity with collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Git-based repositories to support transparent and traceable project execution.

Benefits

• Medical insurance (PPO and HD)
• Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings account (HSA)
• Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
• Life insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Disability leave programs
• Paid holidays
• Paid vacation time
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)
• 401K plan with a generous company match

Pay

$65,000 - $90,000 starting salary is determined by multiple factors including skillset and experience.

Schedule

This position can be based in Houston, Texas; Knoxville, Tennessee; or Washington, DC.