Applied AI Consultant

Role Overview

As a consultant, you will independently lead initiatives, providing technical direction during design sessions with clients and Ashling project leads. Your responsibilities will include designing and building cloud solutions leveraging the latest AI and ML capabilities available from major cloud offering providers for clients. You will collaborate with engineers to efficiently implement algorithms within existing production processes and assist in establishing design and coding standards, policies, and procedures across development efforts. Additionally, you will provide recommendations on improving team efficiency from a code reusability standpoint.

What You Will Do:

• Participate in design sessions with clients and Ashling project leads to provide technical direction on design considerations for development, performance, scalability, availability, maintainability, and reusability.
• Leverage numerical methods and testing algorithms for evaluating LLM performance for different use cases.
• Collaborate with engineers to implement algorithms efficiently with existing production processes
• Assist with design and coding standards, testing pipelines, policies and procedures across development efforts.

What You Will Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering discipline
• 2+ years of programming experience
• 2+ years of .NET development experience (C#)
• Experience in one of the major cloud providers such as Azure, GCP or AWS
• Proven experience implementing LLM capabilities into cloud solutions
• Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Interested in intelligent automation market and cloud infrastructure technologies
• Experience in statistics or numerical methods is a plus but not required
• Experience in Power Platform is a plus but not required
• Experience with prompt engineering and LLM evaluation frameworks (e.g., Azure AI Foundry evaluation, Ragas) is a plus but not required
• Experience building RAG pipelines using Azure AI Search or vector databases is a plus but not required
• Familiarity with agent interoperability protocols (MCP, Agent2Agent/A2A) is a plus but not required
• Experience with Azure AI Document Intelligence or other OCR/intelligent document processing tools is a plus but not required

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Lifelong learner mindset
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and management skills
• Ability to work independently with little oversight
• Proven leadership in providing recommendations for operational efficiency

Why Ashling Partners:

At Ashling Partners, we strive to provide meaningful work in a positive, appreciative and fun culture for our own team. All firm members are referred to as “Ohana,” the Hawaiian word for family, with regards to extended family beyond relatives. The concept emphasizes that extended families are bound together by a common belief, attitude or purpose and members must cooperate and remember one another.

• Lifelong Learning - In the intelligent automation space change happens fast, in order to support that change, Ashling has developed a culture that enables lifelong learners to continuously develop their skill sets
• Diversity of Thought, Culture, Background & Identity – We build diversity, equity, and inclusion capabilities into all facets of our business to support innovation, creativity, and our global growth objectives
• Consistently Innovate with Cutting Edge Technology – We offer a continuous model for performance improvement and the opportunity to work with best of breed automation technology stacks
• Provide Servant-Based Leadership – We believe the leader’s role is to serve the organization, not the other way around
• Practice Stewardship – We work together as peers, regardless of a person’s formal role or authority in the organization
• Be Entrepreneurial in Management – We empower people to bring ideas and challenge them with the responsibility to make them successful
• Offer Open-Book Finance – We give everyone the opportunity to see the books, how we are being measured and what our score is, so they can feel empowered to impact success
• Provide the Best Service – We may not be the cheapest, but we will deliver the best value to our clients
• Make Data-Driven Decisions – We are a data-driven organization internally and externally
• Be a fun place to work - We provide a positive, appreciative and fun culture

What Sets Us Apart:

• Quarterly book allotment (any book of your choice, no cap!)
• Uncapped training allotment
• Unlimited holidays
• Unlimited PTO!
• Immediate 401K contributions