Job Description

• Identify and prioritize opportunities for AI-enabled solutions across internal operations and client engagements.
• Engage stakeholders (internal and external) to understand workflows, pain points, and value drivers.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy AI-enabled solutions that support internal operations.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code; manage dev, staging, and production environments.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and data access controls (Entra ID, role-based access, tenant isolation where applicable).
• Curate and maintain internal knowledge bases for retrieval-grounded systems.
• Handle sensitive data appropriately in AI workflows (PII, client-confidential, regulated data).
• Enhance knowledge capture, accessibility, and reuse across client engagements and internal operations.
• Drive consistency and scalability of core IPM processes through AI.
• Support the evolution of IPM’s consulting practices through the application of AI and emerging technologies.
• As a part of client engagements, design and deliver AI-enabled solutions and tools, partner with engagement leads to define technical scope, integration constraints, and handoff expectations, and translate IPM's internal production patterns to client-side deployments.
• Evaluate new AI tools and capabilities for potential application within IPM by leading pilots and implementation of new technologies.
• Implement AI-specific security controls and support ongoing maintenance monitoring and continuous improvement of deployed internal solutions.
• Develop resources, playbooks, and guidance to support effective and consistent use of AI tools.
• Deliver training and enablement for both internal teams and client stakeholders.
• Promote practical adoption through hands-on support, working sessions, and knowledge sharing.
• Support client-facing training, workshops, and enablement activities as part of AI-enabled engagements.

Desired Skill and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, data science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in software development, data science, or AI/ML roles.
• Exposure to production AI application architecture: retrieval patterns (RAG, agentic retrieval), agent orchestration, prompt and context engineering at the systems level, evaluation infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and the broader agent tooling ecosystem
  • DevOps for AI applications: infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, incident response, model, and prompt versioning
  • Security for AI applications: prompt injection mitigation, agent tool abuse, data exfiltration through model context, output integrity
  • Data engineering for AI: document ingestion pipelines, embedding strategy, vector store operations, data quality, sensitive data handling.
  • Comfort using AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent) as part of your own workflow.
• Strong cloud platform engineering, Azure preferred (Container Apps, Functions, App Service, Key Vault, App Insights, Entra ID). AWS or GCP equivalent experience considered.
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies and applying them to business use cases.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience working with stakeholders across functions to define and deliver high-impact solutions.
• Experience leading projects or initiatives from concept through implementation.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and facilitation skills.
• Ability to work independently while influencing cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience in project management, consulting, or operations environments preferred.

WHY IPM

• Engaging culture: IPM has a caring, nurturing culture with a transparent communication approach and culture-building and team-building events, both regional and company-wide.
• Professional development: This role is intentionally designed as a development opportunity. IPM invests heavily in training, mentorship, and experiential learning to help employees build long-term careers. You are IPM’s future – we only promote from within.
• Collaborative work environment: You will work alongside experienced consultants, managers, and IPM’s Centers of Excellence, gaining access to proven tools, methodologies, and best practices.
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits program: including 100% employer-paid health for employees and over 80% paid health for dependents; 401(k)matching, performance bonus, relocation assistance, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, holiday, personal and sick time, among many others; salary range is $80,000 - $140,000, dependent on experience.
• Philanthropy: We are devoted to the communities we serve and actively promote employee involvement in community improvement projects. We have created “Project Mercy” to channel our philanthropic efforts every quarter.