Top Entry Level Machine Learning Jobs in Houston, TX

Develop and support software, automation tools, dashboards, and alarms for cloud infrastructure, cost attribution, and cloud efficiency. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior engineers to design reliable systems, APIs, databases, tests, and AI agents. Contribute to architecture and automation strategies while maintaining strong security, communication, and delivery practices.

Leads Utility’s AI practice by defining its roadmap, overseeing AI research and deployment, identifying client opportunities, mentoring AI teams, and establishing responsible AI practices. The role combines technical leadership, product strategy, client advisory, and operational execution across machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent automation initiatives.

Lead complex software and technology initiatives from planning through delivery. Manage scope, schedules, resources, dependencies, risks, roadmaps, Agile processes, and stakeholder communication. Provide technical leadership across cloud, data, AI, APIs, architecture, and enterprise integrations. Coordinate distributed engineering and product teams, guide solution decisions, and ensure scalable, secure, high-quality delivery of AI and data-focused products.

Develops and maintains prompts, responses, guidelines, and datasets for generative AI and large language model tools. Leads labeling initiatives with internal teams and third-party firms, trains stakeholders on LLM and dataset best practices, and supports quality assurance and testing. Requires native-level English, bilingual ability in a specified language, specialized domain knowledge, and a college degree or equivalent experience.

Build and deploy data science models for well integrity, pressure-test interpretation, BOP predictive maintenance, annulus pressure monitoring, and barrier assurance. Clean and structure operational data, communicate model results and limitations to engineering and leadership teams, and support real-world drilling and completion decisions. The role requires wells or well integrity engineering experience, practical data science skills, statistics, and demonstrated use of an analytical model in engineering or operational decisions.

Develop high-performance research platforms and tools that bring trading strategies to life. Work in small teams to design, build, and deploy resilient systems using distributed computing, NLP, and machine learning to solve large-data problems in finance.

Analyze malware, binary files, customer detection tickets, and machine learning detections to improve detection efficacy and reduce false positives. Review product detections, assess binary legitimacy, address internal detection questions, and provide insights to data science teams. The role collaborates with technical account managers, incident response teams, data scientists, and malware researchers. Required capabilities include malware analysis, reverse engineering, Python scripting, binary fundamentals, threat assessment, research methods, operating systems, and AI-assisted workflow improvement.

Support and improve manufacturing operations through automation, equipment qualification, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, data analysis, and production process optimization. Develop and validate hardware and software solutions using LabVIEW, SQL, Python, PLCs, and analytics tools. Support equipment testing, performance metrics, yield improvement, downtime reduction, and early production ramp activities. The role is on-site in Sugar Land, Texas, with 5–10% international travel.

Lead research on improving AI agent training data and evaluations. Manage and mentor research engineers, define research direction, design rigorous experiments, validate data quality, diagnose reward and grading failures, and translate findings into scalable tools, workflows, and standards. Collaborate with engineers, domain experts, and vendors while communicating technical conclusions and tradeoffs clearly.

Build and maintain mission-critical wealth management systems for SMB clients. Design data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data models, warehouses, analytics, and reporting solutions using AWS, Snowflake, Mage AI, and other big data tools. Collaborate with data scientists and analysts on predictive models, statistical analyses, and machine learning algorithms. Develop software with Next.js and Python while working closely with the team and clients on financial-domain challenges.

Provide technical pre-sales expertise for Jumio’s identity verification, KYC, AML, authentication, and risk management solutions. Responsibilities include consulting with prospects, leading technical presentations, responding to RFPs and RFIs, managing proofs of concept, onboarding customers through go-live, delivering customized web and mobile demos, and supporting sales, account management, product, engineering, and marketing teams.

Develop and maintain internal applications and AI agents using Microsoft Power Platform, APIs, databases, Copilot Studio, and Azure. Support Agile delivery, automated testing, enterprise integrations, conversational AI, intelligent automation, security and compliance standards, performance monitoring, documentation, and cross-functional solution design. The role is remote with occasional travel and offers foundational development experience.

Design, develop, and implement AI/ML models; analyze large datasets; integrate AI solutions into existing systems; apply MavLink for autonomous systems; collaborate across teams and improve ML development processes.

Conduct frontier AI research and build research-grade datasets, prototypes, tooling, reinforcement learning environments, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks. Design rigorous experiments, train and evaluate models, investigate synthetic and agentic data generation, and translate findings into scalable products. Collaborate with research, engineering, product, and operations teams, communicate technical insights, contribute to publications and open-source work, and mentor peers. This is a fully onsite role based in San Francisco, Palo Alto, or Seattle.

Conduct original research to evaluate, train, and improve frontier AI systems. Design benchmarks, synthetic-data methods, reliability and hallucination evaluations, verification techniques, and agentic science workflows. Identify research gaps, formulate hypotheses, build experiments and evaluation pipelines, publish findings, and develop new research directions across STEM and AI. The role requires strong Python skills, quantitative reasoning, technical writing, and expertise with modern LLMs.

Build scientific advisory and technical enablement programs for enterprise and research partners adopting an AI materials platform. Engage computational chemists and materials scientists, provide technical guidance, lead workshops and demonstrations, create documentation, notebooks, APIs, and reference materials, and relay partner feedback to AI Research, Chemistry, Product, Marketing, and PR teams.

Lead Cure from company formation through product-market validation and seed financing. Define the market wedge, secure enterprise design partners, shape an AI-native recovery product, establish data and evaluation loops, recruit the founding team, build the company narrative, and lead fundraising. The role requires enterprise AI judgment, commercial credibility, consumer-finance and regulatory understanding, and founder-level ability to create a new category.

Founding CTO will architect and build Cure’s AI-native customer engagement and recovery platform. Responsibilities include developing conversational agents, decisioning and personalization systems, evaluation and feedback loops, enterprise integrations, and secure, explainable infrastructure. The CTO will work with customers, lead product and engineering execution, recruit early technical talent, and establish the organization needed to scale a reliable platform for regulated industries.

Write and adapt technical and non-technical content across social media, blogs, founder communications, and company announcements. Translate research papers and technical findings into accessible writing, maintain distinct brand and founder voices, verify claims, collaborate with stakeholders, repurpose content across channels, and independently manage deadlines for a part-time contract.

Lead and coach the engineering team building AutoReview, an AI-powered mechanical design review product. Partner with Product on roadmap planning, feasibility, estimation, prioritization, and timelines. Maintain technical context to identify risks and dependencies, guide initiatives involving DFM checks, assembly analysis, and bulk workflows, and collaborate with applied ML teams. Establish clear ownership, support engineer autonomy, and help the team navigate evolving customer needs and AI technologies.

Lead seismic monitoring for enhanced geothermal systems, including network design, instrument calibration, continuous data quality control, event detection, earthquake relocation, velocity modeling, and catalog development. Analyze source parameters, induced seismicity hazards, and DAS data; develop mitigation protocols; and communicate findings to regulators, partners, and communities. The role requires Python-based processing, HypoDD and GrowClust expertise, field deployment, and occasional travel.

Own data quality across systems by designing validation rules, reconciliation processes, profiling workflows, and quality controls. Investigate discrepancies to identify root causes, apply statistical methods to detect anomalies, evaluate machine learning model outputs, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Partner with engineering, BI, and business teams to establish data quality standards, metrics, controls, and reporting practices.

Designs and operates production data infrastructure, ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, containerized AWS services, and graph-based systems. Responsibilities include relational, document, and graph database architecture; data quality and lineage; CI/CD automation; and integration of blockchain, financial, and investigative data. Partners with R&D, data scientists, and investigations teams to deliver production software for federal and commercial clients.

Analyze large datasets, identify meaningful patterns, develop machine learning models, and deliver actionable insights for business decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs, communicate findings clearly to stakeholders, and stay current with advances in data science and AI technologies.

Build privacy and anonymization systems that detect and transform PII, credentials, secrets, and other sensitive information in data used for AI training. Develop detection methods combining rules, statistical models, classifiers, and LLMs; create production data-processing pipelines; evaluate privacy risk and retained utility; and ensure robustness against schema drift, unusual formats, leakage, and adversarial re-identification.