Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Oversee development, validation, monitoring, and governance of consumer credit risk models used for loss forecasting, credit decisioning, regulatory reporting, and risk management. Apply statistical, econometric, and machine learning methods to PD, LGD, and EAD models; support CECL, stress testing, and macroeconomic scenario analysis. Assess model performance, data quality, and compliance while communicating findings to senior leaders, auditors, regulators, and other stakeholders.

Lead and grow a data science team focused on customer intelligence, personalization, product analytics, marketing optimization, and customer lifetime value. Develop predictive and segmentation models, analyze web and mobile engagement, design experimentation programs, and apply causal inference, survival analysis, forecasting, Bayesian methods, NLP, and machine learning. Partner with Product, Marketing, Editorial, Data Operations, and Engineering to translate customer behavior into scalable products, actionable recommendations, and measurable business impact.

Lead Elastic’s strategy, vision, and multi-quarter roadmap for vector databases, embedding and reranking models, vector indexing, semantic ingestion, and search capabilities. Conduct market and competitive research, define product metrics, prioritize features, and partner closely with engineering, cloud, and applied research teams. Guide technical trade-offs involving recall, latency, index size, ingestion throughput, model lifecycle, and total cost of ownership across serverless and self-managed deployments.

Owns a portfolio of Data-as-a-Service products end to end, including vision, roadmap, requirements, agile delivery, pricing, packaging, distribution, privacy compliance, and go-to-market execution. Partners with engineering, data science, legal, marketing, sales, and customer success to deliver data enrichment, identity, and audience products through APIs, clean rooms, marketplaces, integrations, and self-service channels. Uses launch metrics and customer insights to guide investment decisions.

Own the end-to-end rebuild of Nextdoor’s consumer search experience, including query understanding, retrieval, ranking, result quality, organic and sponsored content blending, and monetization. Define search relevance metrics, partner with engineering, data science, ML, research, design, and marketing teams, and use A/B testing to improve engagement and revenue while protecting user experience.

Leads commercial, privacy, and product legal functions for a cloud technology company. Drafts and negotiates complex SaaS, partnership, reseller, and technology agreements; advises on global privacy, data protection, AI, intellectual property, and product development issues; develops contracting processes and playbooks; partners with cross-functional teams; and manages, mentors, and develops legal professionals.

Lead design and implementation of high-throughput, low-latency programmatic bidding systems. Collaborate with ML engineers to deploy real-time inference, optimize distributed microservices, run experiments and quantitative analysis, and partner with product to ship scalable features. Foster operational excellence, mentor engineers, and continuously improve performance and reliability.

Own the product strategy, roadmap, team, customer relationships, and P&L for Teamworks’ Coaching, Player Personnel, Recruiting, and Intelligence portfolio. Lead AI strategy across sports markets, integrate acquired products, align engineering, design, data science, marketing, and sales, and convert proprietary sports data into AI-powered workflows. Represent the business with teams, leagues, and partners while driving multi-market growth and product execution.

Leads technical sales and executive evangelism for Verint’s Open CCaaS and CX Automation platform. Acts as a trusted advisor to C-suite customers, articulating ROI, AI, data science, and platform capabilities. Partners with Product, Sales, Solutions, Services, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to drive adoption, expansion, thought leadership, and opportunity closure. Requires deep contact center operations experience, strong data architecture knowledge, executive communication skills, and extensive travel.

Lead research and engineering of production-grade LLM/GenAI systems for cybersecurity: design models and architectures, drive data labeling and evaluation, collaborate with product and engineering to deploy scalable solutions, mentor data scientists, set technical strategy, and advance AI safety, red-teaming, and applied ML innovations for detection and operational use.

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will design AI products on Edge devices, optimize ML model performance, and work with large-scale datasets, collaborating across teams to deliver impactful solutions.

As an ML Ops Infrastructure Engineer, you will design CI/CD pipelines for ML, maintain deployment systems, and implement monitoring while collaborating with research teams to ensure model quality and performance.

As a Systems Architect, you'll define and drive the infrastructure architecture for AI/ML workloads, design multi-cloud strategies, manage compute orchestration and storage systems, and lead capacity planning, while also collaborating with engineering leadership.

The engineer will build and operate AI/ML infrastructure, managing services on AWS and bare metal, using tools like Kubernetes and Terraform.

Lead product analytics to improve user growth, engagement, retention, and revenue. Design and analyze A/B and multivariate experiments, perform funnel/cohort analyses, maintain KPIs and dashboards, ensure event tracking, leverage ML and AI tools for advanced analyses, and translate insights into product recommendations across cross-functional teams.

Design and lead end-to-end AI solution architectures, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance. Translate business and regulatory requirements into technical designs, evaluate tools/platforms, document architecture standards, coordinate technical teams, and support deployment and ongoing improvements.

Lead complex, cross-functional AI programs end-to-end: translate strategy into integrated plans, drive multi-team execution, mitigate risks (data, model, compliance), apply ML lifecycle practices, use Agile/kanban methods, manage budgets/vendors, communicate to senior stakeholders, and mentor other program managers to improve AI program standards.

Designs enterprise AI/ML architectures, reference architectures, MLOps standards, lifecycle controls, and technical playbooks for the Veterans Health Administration. Provides consultation to AI pilot teams, evaluates vendor solutions, supports AI catalog and center-of-excellence planning, and translates federal security, authorization, interoperability, and risk requirements into executable architecture decisions. The role is remote and requires collaboration with program leaders, engineers, vendors, and VA IT teams.

Designs and operates production multi-agent AI systems, LLM workflows, scoring and optimization algorithms, and closed-loop autonomous processes. Responsibilities include AI model evaluation, production monitoring, governance, third-party AI integration, federated data retrieval, and identifying patentable inventions. The role requires deep machine learning expertise, algorithm development, and deployment experience across complex operational environments.

Leads Mercury’s cross-line AI/ML research capability across insurance products. Responsibilities include setting strategy, building a research tooling team, modernizing workflows, developing model monitoring and AI infrastructure, establishing responsible AI guardrails, partnering across technology and data science teams, driving adoption, and coaching talent. The role requires strong quantitative, insurance analytics, Python, machine learning, generative AI, and LLM evaluation expertise, along with substantial people and cross-functional leadership experience.

Drive go-to-market execution across Nabla’s product portfolio, including positioning, messaging, sales enablement, competitive intelligence, demand-generation partnerships, customer adoption content, and event support. Progress into owning go-to-market strategy for specific products from early definition through launch and adoption, partnering with Product and Engineering and tracking launch success metrics.

The Sr. Machine Learning Engineer will develop and deploy ML solutions for healthcare, manage data pipelines, and work with large datasets to enhance healthcare delivery.

As a Staff Applied ML Scientist, you will develop and maintain fraud detection models, conduct research on fraud types, and collaborate across teams to drive product development and real-time decision-making.

As a Senior Applied ML Scientist, you'll develop fraud detection models, research new fraud types, and write production code while collaborating across teams to enhance SentiLink's identity verification solutions.

Lead end-to-end healthcare analytics projects, managing scope, planning, execution, client relationships, cross-functional collaboration, risks, and delivery. Provide thought leadership in healthcare analytics and identify business opportunities within client accounts. Required capabilities include quantitative analysis, project management, communication, presentation, SQL/Python/R proficiency, and strategic use of AI tools. Preferred experience includes consulting, cloud analytics platforms, healthcare data regulations, predictive modeling, machine learning, and data visualization.