AI Principal Technical Consultant, AI Services

Thinkahead
US

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior technical leaders who architect enterprise-grade AI solutions and guide client engagements.

Best fit for

  • Senior AI architects with consulting experience bridging technical and business needs.
    — “lead the architecture, engineering, and deployment of enterprise-grade AI solutions
  • Hands-on leaders who translate ambiguous business problems into production systems.
    — “turn ambiguous business problems into scalable, secure, production-ready AI systems

Things to consider

  • Client-facing responsibilities require direct engagement with technology and business leaders.
    — “work directly with client technology and business leaders

How to stand out

  • Showcase projects where you architected AI systems beyond prototyping.
    — “ensure that AI initiatives move from prototype to measurable business impact
  • Highlight cross-functional leadership across engineering and security teams.
    — “credible with engineers, data scientists, architects, platform teams, security stakeholders
  • Demonstrate translating technical trade-offs into business value.
    — “make technical trade-offs, and ensure that AI initiatives move from prototype
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Principal

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What success looks like

  • deployed enterprise AI solutions
  • led technical teams
Typical background
AI consultingML engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

AI ArchitectureML EngineeringEnterprise Solutions

Preferred

Cloud InfrastructureAutomation

About the role

Original posting from Thinkahead via Lever

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. 

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. 

AHEAD is seeking a Principal Technical Consultant, AI Services to lead the architecture, engineering, and deployment of enterprise-grade AI solutions for our clients.

This is a senior hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can turn ambiguous business problems into scalable, secure, production-ready AI systems. You will work directly with client technology and business leaders to define solution architecture, guide engineering teams, make technical trade-offs, and ensure that AI initiatives move from prototype to measurable business impact.

The ideal candidate combines software engineering depth, applied AI / ML fluency, enterprise architecture judgment, and consulting-style client leadership. You do not need to be a pure research scientist, but you should be credible with engineers, data scientists, architects, platform teams, security stakeholders, and senior executives.

This role is well suited for candidates with backgrounds in applied AI consulting, ML engineering, AI solution architecture, technical product development, data science engineering, or advanced analytics engineering environments.

Source: Thinkahead careers (Lever)

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