AI Consultant
Application Deadline: 15 June 2026
Department: AI & Advanced Analytics
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Pune, India
Reporting To: Wart Van Hoek
Description
The headlines....Location: Hybrid in our Central Pune Office
A few application tips…
We want to help you put your best foot forward. Here are a few things we look for:
- Clear, specific examples of your work and impact
- Relevant experience aligned with the role’s focus
- A thoughtful response to any application questions
- A resume that highlights both what you did and why it mattered
If you’re unsure whether your background is the “perfect fit,” we still encourage you to apply. We value potential and growth just as much as experience.
Why this role exists…
We’re preparing for an exciting stage of growth driven by upcoming projects with multiple key clients. While details of these projects are still being finalised, we know they will require strong AI talent. We are looking for people who can operate quickly, think independently, and build robust, production ready solutions.‑ready solutions.
We’re proactively expanding our team with an AI Consultant who can help shape and deliver impactful work.
What you’ll be doing…
You’ll play a central role in developing traditional AI and data science led solutions for real world problems. You’ll work closely with a small, lean, highly capable AI team, collaborating with data engineers, consultants, and technical leads to design and deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients.‑science‑led solutions for real‑world problems. You’ll work closely with a small, lean, highly capable AI team
Your responsibilities will include:
- Building and iterating on data science models to solve complex business challenges ‑science models to solve complex business challenges
- Building feature stores to ensure a single source of truth ML models will use
- Exploring and proposing technical solutions, especially when documentation is limited or problems are not well-defined ‑defined
- Contributing clean, well structured code to shared repositories, following good coding and version control practices ‑structured code to shared repositories, following good coding and version‑control practices
- Collaborating with stakeholders and presenting insights clearly, ensuring technical outputs are understandable and actionable
In your first 3–6 months, success might look like:
- Demonstrating strong problem solving ability by independently navigating ambiguous or novel technical challenges -solving ability by independently navigating ambiguous or novel technical challenges
- Delivering high quality traditional AI or data science models that align with client needs-quality traditional AI or data-science models that align with client needs
- Communicating confidently and clearly about your technical decisions, approach, and results in stakeholder discussions Becoming a trusted partner within a lean, fast-moving team that relies heavily on autonomy and critical thinking
What you’ll need to succeed…
We’re looking for someone who brings a mix of experience, curiosity, and collaboration. We’re looking for someone who brings a thoughtful mix of experience, curiosity, rigour, and communication strength.
You might be a great fit if you have:
- 2–4 years of relevant experience delivering technical solutions end to end
- A strong mathematics or quantitative background (essential for model development)
- Solid programming skills in Python, SQL and Snowflake
- Experience building traditional AI or data science models (e.g., forecasting, segmentation, classical ML techniques
- Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience explaining complex concepts clearly and confidently to technical and non‑technical audiences
- A self-starter mentality, comfortable defining your own process and working in start-up like environments ‑starter mentality, comfortable defining your own process and working in startup‑like environments
Nice to have:‑to‑have:
- Exposure to agentic or Gen AI systems
- Experience building neural networks, transformers, or LLM based architectures ‑based architectures
This role might not be the right fit if you’re looking for:
- A highly structured corporate environment with clearly defined processes (we’re lean, fast, and self driven) ‑driven)
- A Hybrid role - regular in office collaboration in Pune is required and highly valued by the team
- A position focused primarily on Gen AI; the emphasis here is on traditional, rigorous data science work with selective use of agentic AI
