Top Machine Learning Jobs in Hampton, VA

Develop and maintain open-source Python frameworks and ML developer tools, architect scalable libraries, grow early-stage projects, build real-time streaming capabilities, integrate modern frontend technologies, and collaborate with open-source contributors and the broader developer community.

Drives operational excellence through data analysis, dashboards, process improvements, and cross-functional project leadership. The role embeds with business units to manage day-to-day operations, investigate trends, answer strategic questions, implement workflows, coordinate stakeholders, track deliverables, and present insights to technical and non-technical audiences. It serves as a strategic partner to operations leadership in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Develop experimental AI techniques for agentic marketing applications, especially image and video generation. Build proofs of concept, autonomous evaluation and improvement systems, realistic AI-generated video, and brand-aligned creative generation workflows. The role requires strong quantitative and probabilistic thinking, backend architecture skills, creativity with LLM applications, and product intuition.

Lead development and maintenance of character creation, rigging, animation, and simulation tools for game production. Collaborate with artists, engineers, studios, and research teams to prototype workflows, integrate game engines, optimize environments, and apply AI/ML to improve development efficiency. Build and customize internal tools, automate project environments, troubleshoot production issues, document systems, and support varied client pipelines. Participate in internal demonstrations and conferences, with required travel.

Manage strategic enterprise accounts across a national territory, expanding existing customers and acquiring new logos. Build consultative account strategies, serve as a trusted AI and customer experience advisor, develop customer and channel-partner relationships, forecast and exceed bookings targets, and coordinate cross-functional teams to maximize customer and business outcomes. Support initiatives across the customer lifecycle, including business development, messaging, commercial positioning, and operational effectiveness.

Leads product strategy, roadmap development, prioritization, product metrics, and go-to-market execution for a marketing planning and analytics platform. Manages and coaches product managers while acting as an individual contributor on key initiatives. Partners with the CEO, engineering, sales, marketing, and leadership teams to deliver API-based, data-heavy statistical and machine learning products for technical B2B SaaS customers.

The Machine Learning Engineer will build data-intensive products, deploy ML models, analyze datasets, and collaborate with product teams to enhance Nextdoor's platform.

Owns the end-to-end product strategy and execution for AI-powered systems. Defines requirements, evaluation frameworks, quality standards, and system behavior while balancing quality, latency, cost, reliability, safety, and user experience. Partners closely with ML, backend, and client engineering teams to identify failure modes, improve model performance, prioritize roadmaps, and deliver predictable, useful, trusted AI experiences.

Lead application engineering for an AI-powered email product across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Design reliable AI workflows involving orchestration, state, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. Build APIs connecting AI capabilities to product experiences, make architectural trade-offs, establish observability and operational excellence, and lead a small team of senior engineers through hands-on technical mentorship and code development.

Lead the architecture and development of reliable AI-powered email applications across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Design APIs and workflow systems supporting orchestration, state, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. Lead a small senior engineering team, make architectural trade-offs, mentor engineers, and establish strong production practices including observability, monitoring, testing, scalability, security, and operational excellence. Partner with ML leadership to deliver robust, high-quality product experiences.

Lead the engineering strategy for an AI-powered email application across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Design reliable AI workflows with orchestration, state management, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. Build APIs connecting AI capabilities to product experiences, lead a senior engineering team, make architectural trade-offs, and establish strong observability, monitoring, testing, reliability, and scalability foundations while partnering with ML leadership.

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.

Own the research-to-production pipeline: harden training/evaluation workflows, build packaging/deployment tooling, design release gates, optimize inference and serving for latency/throughput, establish benchmarking and validation, and instrument feedback from production to accelerate research iteration.

Develop and deploy NLP and machine learning models for classification, sentiment analysis, entity extraction, information retrieval, and user intent detection across large-scale legal, financial, news, and business datasets. Design scalable data science pipelines, evaluate modern AI algorithms and tools, translate business needs into technical solutions, and collaborate with product and engineering teams. Mentor junior scientists and contribute to model deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and development best practices.

Supports responsible AI governance across the AI lifecycle by maintaining use case and model inventories, risk assessments, model cards, control evidence, audit documentation, transparency records, and remediation tracking. Translates regulatory and policy requirements into practical processes, coordinates cross-functional reviews, evaluates AI risks and controls, and communicates technical governance information to legal, compliance, audit, business, and executive stakeholders.

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, integrates, tests, maintains, and upgrades complex IT systems across hardware, software, and security domains. The role validates system compliance, diagnoses issues, recommends improvements, and supports secure, reliable mission-critical environments. Responsibilities also include working with unstructured data using open-source tools, cloud computing, machine learning, and data visualization technologies, while collaborating with cybersecurity teams.

Develop and test AI software using large datasets, algorithms, and statistical analysis for industrial applications. Collaborate with machine learning and data engineers to build integrated AI/ML solutions, evaluate performance, monitor industry trends and regulations, and present progress to leadership and stakeholders. The internship offers hands-on experience, mentorship, and exposure to practical AI innovation.