Top Entry Level Machine Learning Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

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.

Develop and deploy machine learning and hybrid models for industrial process optimization. Apply process engineering, advanced control, and real-time optimization expertise to build scalable solutions integrated with industrial data systems, cloud platforms, and enterprise software. Lead model evaluation, governance, monitoring, and continuous improvement while collaborating with product, software, process engineering, UX, data science, and customer-facing teams.

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.

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.

Review, label, and QA datasets for AI/ML training; maintain trackers, databases, and dashboards; follow annotation guidelines and SOPs; prepare and clean data; document processes; collaborate to resolve data queries while ensuring confidentiality and timely delivery.

Leads a recruiter pod while personally managing quota-carrying GTM hiring across sales teams and regions. Coaches recruiters, owns hiring quality and funnel performance, partners with sales leadership, and builds an AI-forward recruiting function. The role also develops Boston’s GTM talent community through events, manages reporting and forecasting, and serves as a strategic talent partner for territories, competitors, and workforce planning.

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.

Write technically accurate case studies, articles, product explainers, launch materials, and social content for AI engineers, researchers, and technical leaders. Interview customers, partners, and internal experts; learn HUD’s platform and workflows; explain technical products and research clearly; support founder communications; manage content from ideation through publication; and improve content using reader and go-to-market feedback.

Design and deploy production-ready LLM pipelines and agentic workflows, automate large-scale multimodal dataset pipelines, monitor and improve agent performance, and integrate AI agents with 3D scene composition. The role also involves process documentation, incident response, and continuous improvement, with collaboration across the engine team and company founders.

Build and deploy scalable AI/ML systems for retrieval, ranking, categorization, triage, and generative AI across healthcare data. Own solutions end-to-end from problem framing and model selection through production deployment and optimization. Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, clinicians, and operations teams to translate complex business problems into explainable, maintainable systems with measurable outcomes.

Develop technical employment-marketing content that showcases Socure’s engineering challenges, architecture, APIs, machine learning, identity, fraud, and infrastructure work. Interview engineers and technical leaders, write blogs, deep dives, whitepapers, and recruiting copy, and distribute content through developer communities, publications, social channels, and talent platforms. Partner with engineering, recruiting, employer brand, marketing, design, and subject matter experts while maintaining editorial quality and using AI tools thoughtfully.

Freelance writers summarize recent machine learning research papers for The Batch, an AI newsletter reaching over two million professionals and students. Writers must understand machine learning technology, explain complex research clearly in an established format, and communicate effectively in English. The role is intended for graduate students and postdocs in machine learning, with negotiable freelance compensation.

Own Avon AI’s US go-to-market motion, including enterprise prospecting, discovery, demos, pilots, negotiations, forecasting, and closing deals with regulated organizations. Build demand through outbound campaigns, events, webinars, partners, and resellers. Develop the sales process, messaging, qualification framework, and playbook while helping recruit the future US sales and marketing team. Collaborate closely with founders and product teams, translating customer and market feedback into product direction.

Design and deploy production machine learning models and conversational AI agents that transform advertiser briefs into optimized media plans. Build evaluation systems to improve model and agent quality, collaborate across science and engineering teams, investigate ambiguous problems, and iterate using performance data and seller feedback. Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders while contributing broadly across machine learning domains.

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.

DoD SkillBridge Fellows gain practical experience through assigned projects, collaboration with experienced professionals, and exposure to operational processes, technologies, and mission objectives. Opportunities span telecommunications, acquisition and procurement, technology, accounting, finance, and other areas. Participants are compensated by their military employer during the fellowship and may be considered for full-time employment afterward based on performance and organizational needs.

Support partner sales opportunities through discovery calls, product demonstrations, technical responses, solution scoping, project planning, proof-of-concept coordination, RFI/RFP responses, and security questionnaires. Collaborate with sales, professional services, product, engineering, and delivery teams while building partner relationships and developing expertise in fraud prevention and financial crime solutions.

The Tarbell Fellowship combines three months of remote training in AI and journalism fundamentals with a nine-month newsroom placement as an artificial intelligence reporter. Fellows write and investigate AI-related topics, build journalism skills, complete coursework and assignments, and attend a weeklong in-person summit. The program is full-time and intended for candidates with journalism or AI expertise, strong writing ability, persistence, curiosity, and open-mindedness. Senior fellowships are available to candidates with at least seven years of experience and exceptional prior work.

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.

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.

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.