Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Leads pricing strategy and profitability consulting engagements, analyzing pricing models, customer value, market trends, and business performance. Directs teams, manages stakeholders, budgets, and resources, and coaches consultants. Applies predictive analytics, machine learning, statistical modeling, and scenario analysis to develop actionable recommendations, improve client profitability, optimize customer value, and support strategic transformations.

Develop and implement AI solutions and machine learning systems that enhance products and solve complex client problems. Responsibilities include advanced analytics, LLM production deployment, prompt engineering, RAG pipeline optimization, cross-functional collaboration, technical discovery, responsible AI advocacy, client relationship building, and mentoring junior team members.

Leads pricing and revenue data science initiatives for consumer markets clients. Develops predictive models, forecasts trends and customer behavior, manages dashboards and visualizations, ensures data quality, and translates complex analytics into strategic decisions. Oversees client engagements, validates outcomes, directs complex projects, and coaches diverse, high-performing teams.

Lead go-to-market strategy for Sprout Social’s AI portfolio, including the Trellis AI agent. Develop enterprise launch playbooks, positioning, executive messaging, campaigns, and enablement programs. Analyze market and competitive dynamics, influence product roadmaps, improve launch processes, and partner with Product, Sales, Revenue, Brand, and executive leadership to drive adoption, revenue growth, deal expansion, and category leadership. The role also mentors marketing team members and operates with substantial autonomy.

Lead agile design and development projects for mobile apps and digital products. Coordinate product, design, engineering, marketing, leadership, and client stakeholders; manage project plans, scope, requirements, backlogs, acceptance criteria, deadlines, workflows, and deliverables. Support scoping and client relationship management while ensuring successful end-to-end software launches and alignment with business objectives.

Lead AI engineering teams to design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI solutions. Manage client relationships, plan and deliver projects, mentor staff, drive adoption of cloud-native microservices, CI/CD, vector databases and orchestration tools, and ensure high standards of quality, innovation, and compliance.

Develop and operate production ML and AI systems powering patient experiences such as matching, ranking, recommendations, onboarding, and personalization. Build reusable ML infrastructure, pipelines, evaluation, observability, and model-serving capabilities. Provide technical leadership across the ML lifecycle, guide architecture, evaluate custom versus foundation-model approaches, and partner with ML and Patient Engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable AI products.

Leads the AI Engineering team across applied AI features and foundational ML infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing Senior and Staff engineers, hiring and coaching, deploying LLM-powered capabilities, building MLOps and AI observability platforms, balancing product delivery with platform investment, and ensuring privacy, compliance, evaluation rigor, and clinical safety in production systems.

Own the strategic vision and roadmap for Coursera’s AI-driven search experience. Lead conversational search, personalization, semantic and multilingual search, ranking, and discovery improvements. Partner with engineering, design, research, data science, ML, marketing, and partnerships teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities. Use experimentation, market analysis, KPIs, and customer insights to improve conversion, merchandising, learner experience, and revenue.

Set the technical vision for data science, lead complex statistical and machine learning model development from concept through production, and architect scalable modeling platforms and pipelines. Develop credit risk, pricing, and loss forecasting models; establish model governance standards; partner with senior leaders; mentor data scientists; and communicate technical strategy to executives. The role emphasizes production deployment, monitoring, cloud architecture, and high-impact decision-making across the business.

Develop and maintain production machine learning models, build scalable training and serving technologies, optimize real-time and batch ML pipelines, and monitor model performance and drift. The role involves deep neural networks, recommendation systems, automated retraining, ML research, engineering excellence, and communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences. Candidates need 6+ years of industry ML experience, strong coding skills, and experience deploying neural networks at scale.

Design, build, deploy, and support scalable Java microservices on AWS. Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, code reviews, troubleshooting, proof-of-concept development, and cross-functional collaboration. Work with high-throughput data, messaging systems, distributed architectures, observability, and AI-assisted development tools. Participate in on-call support, mentor engineers, lead architectural initiatives, and deliver reliable SaaS platform features.

Product Counsel will advise product, engineering, data science, marketing, compliance, and sales teams throughout the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include counseling on regulatory compliance, privacy, intellectual property, consumer protection, AI and machine learning, data rights, platform architecture, APIs, identity and account security, and marketing. The role translates legal requirements into technical guidance, supports AI governance, monitors evolving laws, and develops scalable legal processes for a fast-paced technology company.

Lead GitLab’s company-wide strategy for autonomous, agentic software development workflows. Identify and validate AI opportunities across the SDLC, build prototypes and reference architectures, establish evaluation frameworks and safety controls, and drive internal adoption. Partner across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, and Data and ML teams to scale reliable, observable, compliant agentic capabilities into customer-facing products. Mentor senior technical leaders and represent GitLab externally on AI-assisted development and productivity measurement.

Supports payer modernization and health services consulting engagements by analyzing operational challenges, optimizing processes, applying business analytics, engaging stakeholders, implementing quality standards, and guiding transformation initiatives. Develops operational support frameworks, conducts market research, manages change, and advises clients on improving service delivery and business performance while mentoring junior team members.

Build and operate production machine learning systems for Safety AI, including low-latency APIs, data pipelines, model serving, evaluation, monitoring, and rollout infrastructure. Process large-scale camera and telematics data, optimize cloud and edge-to-cloud execution, track model performance and drift, and partner with applied scientists, firmware engineers, platform teams, and product managers to deliver reliable safety features.

Engineer AI-powered threat detections, automated response playbooks, and continuous adversary emulation. Apply machine learning and LLMs to security operations, conduct threat hunting and AI red teaming, map coverage to MITRE ATT&CK, and develop detection-as-code through CI/CD. Build production-grade Python integrations, measurable containment capabilities, and safe autonomous defenses with guardrails. Mentor security professionals and collaborate across threat response, cyber defense engineering, and platform teams.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

Lead development and quality evaluation of production AI agents and agentic features. Define success criteria, evaluation frameworks, judges, guardrails, and experimentation methods; assess models and configurations; improve prompts, tool use, context management, and platform capabilities; and establish scalable quality standards. Partner with product, design, engineering, and leadership to communicate AI performance, limitations, and evidence-based recommendations.

Build and productionize traditional machine learning models, owning feature engineering, validation, deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining. Develop LLM-powered agentic tools, dashboards, self-serve analytics products, and automated insight pipelines. Partner with engineering and business stakeholders, write production-grade Python and SQL, drive adoption, improve data quality, and establish responsible AI workflows for a regulated industry.

Lead end-to-end LLM inference performance across serving systems, models, GPU hardware, and workloads. Define rigorous benchmarks, diagnose bottlenecks from scheduling through kernels and interconnects, optimize single- and multi-node deployments, and deliver production-ready runtimes and configurations. Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams, evaluate inference technologies, and implement runtime fixes. The role requires strong Python engineering, production experience with serving engines such as vLLM or SGLang, GPU profiling, and knowledge of modern inference optimization techniques.

Build and deploy production machine learning systems that optimize Samsara’s global hardware supply chain. Responsibilities include demand, inventory, lead-time, spend, and supplier-risk forecasting; anomaly detection; feature engineering and ETL; real-time inference; MLOps; data infrastructure improvements; governance; and model monitoring. The role defines the AI transformation roadmap, partners with executive and cross-functional stakeholders, mentors scientists, and drives adoption of AI-enabled operational workflows.

Design, build, and support high-throughput, low-latency LLM inference and data pipelines; collaborate with data scientists to post-train and evaluate models; implement scalable, production-ready systems with strong testing, monitoring, and performance focus; mentor engineers and iterate on architecture, reliability, and user-facing AI applications.

Own and improve Headway’s privacy program across HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, state privacy laws, individual rights, incidents, vendor governance, and AI use. Maintain controls, data maps, metrics, training, and operational workflows. Conduct product, vendor, and AI privacy assessments; manage rights requests and incident investigations; coordinate notifications and regulatory submissions; and translate complex requirements into practical guidance for cross-functional teams.

Analyze product, user, transactional, and repayment data to develop risk and underwriting models, reduce losses and fraud, monitor model performance, and guide product and growth strategy. Build Looker dashboards and LookML models, conduct segmentation and experimentation, measure CAC and LTV, and communicate actionable insights to product, engineering, marketing, finance, and leadership.