Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Lead and own cross-organizational technical programs for ML and robotics platform development, define roadmaps and milestones, remove blockers, align diverse engineering teams, and drive adoption of platform best practices to deliver scalable autonomy and infrastructure outcomes.

Define and execute the market strategy for UserTesting’s AI solutions. Own positioning, messaging, value propositions, go-to-market plans, sales enablement, customer and buyer research, competitive differentiation, thought leadership, and market feedback loops. Translate complex AI workflows and human-judgment applications into compelling solutions for technical enterprise buyers, while influencing product and company strategy through cross-functional leadership.

Owns the strategy, roadmap, development, and adoption of financial data products and APIs. Partners with data science and engineering to integrate predictive and machine-learning models into scalable, trustworthy capabilities. Defines quality metrics, requirements, documentation, and support models while ensuring privacy, security, regulatory compliance, and downstream adoption across consumer and business banking products.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, secure Java backend services and APIs. Ensure reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across microservices, databases, messaging systems, and capacity planning. Troubleshoot, profile, benchmark, and optimize systems (including ML applications) and collaborate with Kazakhstan stakeholders.

Design, develop, and validate functionally safe software for robotic perception systems. Build safety-critical architecture across Linux and real-time operating systems, create testing and validation frameworks for edge cases, collaborate with machine learning, hardware, and core software teams, and mentor junior engineers on safety-critical coding practices.

Drive MSSP partner growth across AMER by recruiting, onboarding, activating, and expanding strategic managed security service provider relationships. Develop territory recruitment plans, executive partnerships, joint business plans, and indirect routes to market. Help partners launch managed security services, generate pipeline, increase revenue, and accelerate time-to-revenue. Collaborate with sales, channel, marketing, services, and technical teams while managing forecasts, opportunities, executive reviews, and revenue objectives.

Lead AI-driven localization product initiatives from concept through production. Build strategic roadmaps, incubate machine-learning capabilities, partner with researchers and engineers, and deliver scalable tools for creators and content operations. Translate user needs into impactful products, communicate strategy to executives and nontechnical stakeholders, and use data, experimentation, and ML evaluation to prioritize work and measure outcomes.

Architect and operate North’s AWS and multi-cloud infrastructure, establishing IaC, CI/CD, security, observability, and disaster-recovery standards. Build AIOps capabilities including anomaly detection, predictive scaling, self-healing remediation, AI-assisted tooling, and cloud cost optimization. Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, Product Engineering, and InfoSec teams to deliver resilient, compliant, highly scalable platforms.

Own the end-to-end product direction and quality of an AI email application. Define AI and system requirements, translate model capabilities into product decisions, balance quality, cost, latency, reliability, safety, and user experience, and partner with ML, backend, and client engineers. Establish evaluation frameworks, quality standards, feedback loops, and failure recovery strategies while driving prioritization, execution, experimentation, and user trust in a zero-to-one environment.

Own the end-to-end product direction and quality of an AI-powered email application. Define AI and system requirements, evaluation frameworks, quality standards, and measurable outcomes. Partner closely with ML, backend, and client engineering teams to make trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, reliability, safety, and user experience. Drive prioritization, specifications, experimentation, failure-mode mitigation, and continuous iteration in a technical zero-to-one environment.

Own the end-to-end lead management lifecycle, including capture, enrichment, qualification, scoring, routing, sales handoff, disposition, and recycling. Establish governance, business rules, SLAs, controls, and performance metrics; optimize workflows and integrations; resolve data quality and lead-flow issues; and partner with Sales, Marketing, Data Science, IT, and Analytics. Manage and develop a small team while overseeing operational priorities, testing, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Lead the technical side of enterprise sales for autonomous systems and physical AI customers. Own discovery, architecture reviews, demonstrations, proofs of concept, evaluations, deployments, and expansions. Translate customer workflows into solutions, address technical objections, and collaborate with Product and Engineering. Build scalable sales engineering processes, technical content, evaluation frameworks, and operating models while supporting strategic automotive OEM and enterprise opportunities.

Lead product strategy, requirements, and roadmap development for Honeywell Forge cloud applications serving utilities. Own AI and analytics capabilities for grid operations, DER management, rate design, and utility programs. Conduct customer and market discovery, competitive analysis, and voice-of-customer research. Partner with solution architects, sales, customers, and engineering to prioritize and deliver B2B SaaS products that generate measurable utility operational value.

Lead product strategy, requirements, roadmap, and AI capabilities for Honeywell Forge cloud applications serving utilities. Conduct customer and competitive discovery, translate utility workflows into product investments, define commercial opportunities, and partner with engineering to prioritize and deliver cloud-native B2B software. The role focuses on AI for grid operations, DER management, rate design, and utility program performance while ensuring measurable operational value.

Lead technical direction for high-impact machine learning initiatives, from research and experimentation through production deployment. Build and fine-tune LLMs, document understanding systems, model-serving infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, and data feedback loops. Establish standards for model quality, calibration, reproducibility, and responsible deployment while mentoring ML engineers and influencing organizational roadmaps. The role requires hands-on software and ML engineering expertise, production-scale model development, and strong statistical judgment.

Own the global consumer engagement and personalization domain across digital channels. Assess current capabilities, define multi-year strategy and roadmap, recommend personalization infrastructure investments, and translate priorities into shipped products. Partner with engineering, data science, design, marketing, legal, and regional teams to deliver scalable experiences. Establish metrics, run cross-market experiments, optimize performance, and make global versus localized decisions. Influence executives, mentor product managers, and apply AI, identity resolution, and generative AI to personalization.

Manage the AI opportunity roadmap for Risk Services, prioritizing use cases, coordinating internal data science teams and external vendors, translating business needs into requirements, and supporting AI governance, compliance, explainability, auditability, implementation, adoption, and benefits realization. The role focuses on business outcomes and solution delivery rather than hands-on model development.

Own and develop SandboxAQ’s intellectual property function, including patent portfolio strategy, invention harvesting, prosecution, lifecycle management, outside counsel oversight, freedom-to-operate analyses, trademark clearance, and trade secret programs. Partner with scientists, engineers, and business teams to protect innovations, inform product strategy, support transactions, and build scalable IP processes in a fast-growing AI-focused company.

Manage a team of data scientists to develop fraud detection models, lead planning and collaboration with leadership, and communicate outcomes effectively while maintaining strong business intuition and technical leadership.

Manage paid media strategies and campaigns across search, social, display, and programmatic channels. Advise clients using integrated paid, organic, and analytics data; oversee campaign performance, keyword research, ad copy, landing page recommendations, and presentations. Build client relationships, mentor account associates, collaborate with SEO and data teams, and use AI to improve workflows and outcomes.

Develop and lead paid media strategies across search, social, display, and programmatic channels. Manage campaign strategy, performance analysis, testing, optimization, and integrated paid and organic recommendations. Consult with clients, present results, build relationships, mentor account associates, and identify data-driven growth opportunities. Use AI tools to improve workflows and contribute insights across the team.

Designs and implements AWS cloud-native applications, distributed systems, and machine learning infrastructure. Leads architecture for SageMaker model deployment, inference, endpoints, and AI integrations while guiding engineering teams. Builds scalable event-driven services using AWS Lambda, SNS/SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, and Bedrock. Develops Python automation and ML integrations, applies Terraform and CI/CD, and ensures production ML workloads are secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective. Preferred experience includes NLP, embeddings, generative AI, OCR, MLOps, RAG, and vector databases.

Leads technical strategy and product adoption for major Retail and CPG enterprise accounts as Databricks’ primary technical voice. Partners with account executives, guides customers through data and AI transformations, builds technical champions, aligns solutions to business strategies, and mentors team members. Requires extensive pre-sales, big data, cloud, data science, programming, and production data systems experience.

Build and lead Nebius’s federal affairs function in Washington, D.C. Develop policy strategy across AI regulation, trade, energy, infrastructure, and national security; establish bipartisan relationships with Congress and executive agencies; represent the company in federal initiatives and coalitions; assess regulatory risks; coordinate with legal, communications, and infrastructure teams; manage outside lobbying partners; and hire staff as the function scales.

Lead research, architecture, and production deployment of large-scale algorithms for budget pacing, bid optimization, and marketplace balancing in Yahoo’s DSP. Apply control theory, optimization, and machine learning to real-time systems, while establishing AI-augmented research and engineering workflows. Own multi-quarter initiatives, define evaluation frameworks, guide technical strategy, collaborate with product and engineering leadership, mentor scientists and engineers, and communicate complex research and architectural decisions to executives.