Artificial Intelligence (AI) Consultant

ABS is seeking a consultative, delivery-focused Artificial Intelligence (AI) Consultant to join our AI Practice Team. In this role, you 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. Embedded in day-to-day delivery, you will clarify requirements, structure work, and ensure the right specialists are engaged at each stage.
Location:
This position can be based in Houston, Texas; Knoxville, Tennessee; or Washington, DC.
What You Will Do:
- Coordinate day-to-day communication with clients, capturing requirements, clarifying questions, and providing timely updates on progress, risks, and key decisions.
- Support the project manager in planning and tracking delivery across multiple AI projects, maintaining project plans, action logs, RAID logs, and status reports.
- Partner with technical leads and team members to translate client needs into clear, actionable tasks, and monitor execution against agreed timelines and scope.
- Troubleshoot delivery issues as they arise, helping to unblock dependencies, escalate risks, and ensure corrective actions are clearly owned and tracked to completion.
- Help drive quality and consistency by supporting reviews, testing and validation activities, documentation, and adherence to delivery standards and methods.
- Contribute to internal knowledge sharing and continuous improvement within the AI Practice by capturing lessons learned and helping to develop playbooks and reusable assets.
- Support cross-service coordination across AI strategy, AI assistants, custom models, process optimization, policy and procedure optimization, and data standardization/tagging initiatives.
What You Will Need:
Education and Experience
- 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 closely 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.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- 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).
Reporting Relationships:
This role reports to the AI Project Manager and does not include direct reports.
Salary Range:
$65,000 - $90,000
Starting salary is determined by multiple factors including skillset and experience.

Notice: This role has been opened for a future need expected within three months of the original posting date of this position. Potential candidates may not receive communication until the open headcount is confirmed.