Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Develops AI/ML prototypes, APIs, microservices, integrations, and lightweight user interfaces for federal and DoD-aligned mission workflows. The role integrates and optimizes machine learning models for dashboards and applications, supports data ingestion and preprocessing, validates performance, and helps transition models into production. Collaboration with data scientists, architects, developers, PMO leadership, and cybersecurity teams is required. The position requires five years of relevant experience, a bachelor’s degree, ITIL v4 Foundation certification, and Public Trust or active Secret clearance.

Author and verify rigorous multiple-choice computer science assessment items across many CS domains to create gold-standard benchmarks for AI research. Produce correct answers, nine plausible distractors, solution explanations, difficulty labels, and authoritative references. Review and edit questions for technical accuracy, clarity, and reproducibility. Contribute asynchronously as an independent contractor, ~10+ hours/week, fully remote.

Leads the architecture, development, deployment, and optimization of enterprise machine learning solutions. Responsibilities include designing scalable ML systems, developing predictive models, supporting MLOps and model lifecycle management, improving data quality and feature engineering, implementing governance and validation frameworks, and mentoring technical teams. The role also contributes to AI strategy, innovation initiatives, responsible AI practices, and organizational modernization.

Lead product strategy and execution for an AgTech SaaS platform, driving grower workflows, data integration, analytics, IoT partnerships, and commercialization. Own roadmap, write requirements, collaborate with engineering/data science, and measure adoption, revenue retention, and platform usage.

Serve as primary client contact for a portfolio of loyalty-program clients. Scope and manage end-to-end actuarial analyses rooted in predictive modeling and machine learning, validate model outputs, translate results into clear recommendations and presentations, and partner with analysts and data scientists to deliver high-quality, client-facing work in a fully remote consulting environment.

Partner with a retained search firm to place software engineers and quant developers at top hedge funds. Provide candidate flow from your network; firm supplies clients, process, and fees. Remote, commission-only role with placement and pipeline incentives. Apply with placement examples, outreach metrics, and a candidate submission.

Lead and build a data science organization to create a prediction engine for vendor matching, order routing, and supply chain optimization. Anchor projects to P&L, design measurement and experiment frameworks, ship rapid wins, hire and coach data scientists, work hands-on in modeling and technical design, partner with product and engineering (Snowflake), and evolve systems toward agentic AI while reporting impact in dollar terms.

Build, ship, and own end-to-end ML models for vendor matching, order routing, and supply-chain optimization. Partner with data engineering to productionize models, quantify impact, document work, and implement decision logic components toward agentic AI in a fast-moving healthcare startup environment.

The Staff Product Manager will define product strategy, lead the product lifecycle, collaborate across teams, and drive innovation in claims processing software.

The Director of System Safety oversees safety functions for autonomous vehicles, managing safety cases, deployment plans, and regulatory relationships while leading a multi-disciplinary safety team.

Lead development of time-series and econometric models (ARIMA, VAR, state-space, WLS, panel data) and Bayesian probabilistic frameworks. Use causal inference and stochastic processes to produce actionable insights, work with large datasets on Databricks, communicate results to stakeholders, and mentor junior team members.

Own a product area of the Content Authoring Platform end-to-end: set vision and roadmap, run continuous discovery, define and measure outcomes, partner with engineering and design to deliver features, evaluate and apply AI capabilities prudently, mentor peers, and communicate strategy and trade-offs to stakeholders.

Lead client-facing full-stack Java development, mentor teams, design solutions, promote engineering best practices (Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, TDD), and deliver enterprise software using modern cloud, container, and JS frameworks.

Build and maintain full-stack features, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure for large-scale ad management and analytics. Integrate with advertising platform APIs, apply ML/NLP for forecasting and recommendations, collaborate with product and marketing teams, and use AI coding tools to accelerate development.

Lead causal inference and measurement efforts for payments, build and evaluate ML/AI and LLM-based models, optimize fraud mitigation and loss strategies, simulate interventions, and communicate findings to stakeholders to drive product and risk decisions.

Own end-to-end analysis of payments, chargebacks, and user lifecycle to identify drivers of net loss. Deep-dive into fraud cases, design and evaluate A/B experiments and risk-rule changes, build monitoring dashboards, partner with Risk, Payments, and Product to convert insights into mitigations, and run ad-hoc analyses of emerging loss trends.

Lead and execute independent research programs on NLP and LLM safety, design and run experiments, secure funding, publish and present results, lead cross-functional teams, and develop evaluation tools and challenges to advance digital safety.

Lead analytics partner to Community Support, driving data-driven roadmaps, scalable reporting and measurement, causal inference and experimentation, and improvements to agent/guest/host experiences via analytics, modeling, and stakeholder influence.

Design and implement scalable backend and distributed systems for a marketing intelligence platform. Build near-real-time ingestion and processing, scale an incrementality/experimentation product, integrate AI-powered workflows, improve data ingestion/exports and connection-state systems, and contribute frontend components to deliver end-to-end product experiences.

Lead a Big Data Engineering team to deliver production-grade ETL and data pipelines at scale. Own team execution, code quality, morale, and roadmap execution with product managers. Remove roadblocks, coach and develop engineers, promote engineering best practices, and enable data-driven and AI-powered product features (personalization, recommendations, search, ranking, matching).

Evaluate and strengthen AI model behavior on cybersecurity topics by writing expert prompts, annotating and grading model responses for accuracy and safety, and applying structured guidelines to classify sensitive content. Work part-time on AI safety tasks with emphasis on secure, responsible handling of dual-use information.

Lead manufacturing process improvements for precision optical production: analyze data, reduce cycle time and costs, design/qualify tooling and automation, apply Lean/Six Sigma and AI-enabled analytics, maintain process documentation, partner cross-functionally, drive CAPEX and continuous improvement projects, and train production staff.

Seeking a Senior Full Stack .NET Developer to work on a social good project, with strong skills in C#, AngularJS, design, and UX. Requires 5+ years of experience.

The Senior Data Scientist will design and deploy time-series forecasting models, collaborate with stakeholders, and operationalize models in cloud environments, focusing on demand planning across various industries.

Drive Midwest SLED revenue by selling analytics-driven SaaS identity and fraud solutions. Build pipeline, manage full sales cycle, develop partnerships/channels, collaborate with product, forecast accurately, and travel up to 50% to close deals and ensure customer success.