Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead AI engineering teams to design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI solutions. Manage client relationships, plan and deliver projects, mentor staff, drive adoption of cloud-native microservices, CI/CD, vector databases and orchestration tools, and ensure high standards of quality, innovation, and compliance.

Leads teams designing and deploying AI-driven enterprise and cloud security solutions. Responsibilities include developing machine learning systems, integrating data infrastructure and pipelines, performing advanced modeling and analysis, and building AI applications with Python, Java, and C++. The role involves client engagement, strategic problem-solving, stakeholder validation, coaching, process innovation, and operational excellence while addressing complex cybersecurity and privacy challenges.

Analyzes workforce and healthcare data to identify trends, build predictive and machine learning models, and deliver actionable recommendations. Uses Python, Alteryx, and Power BI for analytics, visualization, and reporting. The role supports workforce strategy, employee engagement, organizational effectiveness, talent management, and healthcare cost insights. Responsibilities also include client collaboration, relationship management, team guidance, and applying risk adjustment and medical economics concepts to inform strategic decisions.

Leverage advanced analytics, data manipulation, visualization, statistical modeling, predictive analytics, and machine learning to generate client insights and recommendations. Apply Adobe Experience Cloud solutions to support business transformation and strategic decision-making. Build client relationships, manage and inspire teams, navigate complex engagements, uphold professional standards, and deliver quality outcomes while developing technical and consulting expertise.

Leads data analysis and advanced analytics workstreams for clients, using statistical modeling, machine learning, data visualization, and Adobe Experience Cloud technologies to improve operations and strategic decision-making. Manages project planning, budgeting, execution, and completion while mentoring teams, maintaining data integrity and security, building Tableau and Power BI dashboards, identifying business opportunities, and integrating innovative analytics practices.

Product Counsel will advise product, engineering, data science, marketing, compliance, and sales teams throughout the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include counseling on regulatory compliance, privacy, intellectual property, consumer protection, AI and machine learning, data rights, platform architecture, APIs, identity and account security, and marketing. The role translates legal requirements into technical guidance, supports AI governance, monitors evolving laws, and develops scalable legal processes for a fast-paced technology company.

Lead GitLab’s company-wide strategy for autonomous, agentic software development workflows. Identify and validate AI opportunities across the SDLC, build prototypes and reference architectures, establish evaluation frameworks and safety controls, and drive internal adoption. Partner across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, and Data and ML teams to scale reliable, observable, compliant agentic capabilities into customer-facing products. Mentor senior technical leaders and represent GitLab externally on AI-assisted development and productivity measurement.

Leads technical customer engagements for strategic enterprise accounts, combining solution engineering, software implementation, consulting, and sales support. Responsibilities include discovering requirements, designing and documenting SailPoint solutions, conducting foundational implementations and proof-of-value engagements, educating customers on architecture and best practices, and developing AI-enabled demonstrations and agentic solutions. The role collaborates across sales, product, professional services, partners, and customer success, and may require up to 15% travel.

Build and operate production machine learning systems for Safety AI, including low-latency APIs, data pipelines, model serving, evaluation, monitoring, and rollout infrastructure. Process large-scale camera and telematics data, optimize cloud and edge-to-cloud execution, track model performance and drift, and partner with applied scientists, firmware engineers, platform teams, and product managers to deliver reliable safety features.

Own the strategic vision and roadmap for Coursera’s AI-driven search experience. Lead conversational search, personalization, semantic and multilingual search, ranking, and discovery improvements. Partner with engineering, design, research, data science, ML, marketing, and partnerships teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities. Use experimentation, market analysis, KPIs, and customer insights to improve conversion, merchandising, learner experience, and revenue.

Engineer AI-powered threat detections, automated response playbooks, and continuous adversary emulation. Apply machine learning and LLMs to security operations, conduct threat hunting and AI red teaming, map coverage to MITRE ATT&CK, and develop detection-as-code through CI/CD. Build production-grade Python integrations, measurable containment capabilities, and safe autonomous defenses with guardrails. Mentor security professionals and collaborate across threat response, cyber defense engineering, and platform teams.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

Manage data analysis for transaction monitoring, risk identification, and compliance. Analyze high-volume transaction data using SQL, Python, Splunk, and visualization tools; conduct root-cause investigations; design risk data architectures; identify process and reporting improvements; advise business and product teams; and translate technical findings into executive recommendations. The role also involves stakeholder liaison, regulatory alignment, data integrity, and managing concurrent analytical projects.

Leads Toast’s AI and analytics strategy for Enterprise Care. Owns the roadmap, evaluates and deploys AI-assisted support tools, develops operational intelligence products, and partners with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to move pilots into production. Establishes complexity and workload intelligence, assesses AI readiness, translates AI performance into measurable operational outcomes, and builds organizational AI literacy. The role requires extensive enterprise support or service-delivery leadership, hands-on production AI experience, operational data fluency, and the ability to drive trusted adoption among agents and executives.

Build and productionize traditional machine learning models, owning feature engineering, validation, deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining. Develop LLM-powered agentic tools, dashboards, self-serve analytics products, and automated insight pipelines. Partner with engineering and business stakeholders, write production-grade Python and SQL, drive adoption, improve data quality, and establish responsible AI workflows for a regulated industry.

Own and improve Headway’s privacy program across HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, state privacy laws, individual rights, incidents, vendor governance, and AI use. Maintain controls, data maps, metrics, training, and operational workflows. Conduct product, vendor, and AI privacy assessments; manage rights requests and incident investigations; coordinate notifications and regulatory submissions; and translate complex requirements into practical guidance for cross-functional teams.

Develop autonomy evaluation metrics, statistical and machine-learning analyses, dashboards, and pipelines for simulation and on-road autonomous vehicle testing. Analyze perception, prediction, and planning performance; identify anomalous behavior and critical scenarios; apply VLMs and LLMs where appropriate; and support release gating and safety decisions. The role requires production Python, C++ debugging, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and rigorous software engineering practices.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Serves as the technical bridge between customers, Sales, and technology teams. Leads technical discovery, solution architecture, demonstrations, workshops, proofs of concept, and evaluations using HERE data, APIs, mapping, routing, spatial analytics, cloud, AI, and enterprise integration. Partners with Sales to qualify opportunities, reduce technical risk, develop proposals and reusable presales assets, and guide customers toward location-intelligence solutions.

Design and lead the technical strategy for search across Vannevar’s products. Build and improve full-text, vector, and LLM-powered retrieval systems, optimizing latency, relevance, index quality, freshness, and performance. Collaborate with ML, product, design, and mission strategy teams to translate user needs into search innovations. Apply expertise in information retrieval, NLP, machine learning, indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, vector search, and evaluation frameworks.

Owns the strategy, backlog, roadmap, and delivery of enterprise AI and Generative AI products. Identifies high-value use cases, translates business needs into requirements and user stories, partners with data science and engineering teams, defines performance metrics, and supports deployment, adoption, governance, and continuous improvement. The role also develops business cases, evaluates risks, ensures responsible AI practices, and communicates product outcomes to stakeholders and leadership.

Designs, develops, deploys, and supports scalable enterprise applications, cloud platforms, APIs, and AI-powered solutions. Responsibilities include software architecture, system integrations, data pipelines, generative AI implementation, performance and security optimization, technical documentation, and collaboration with distributed teams. The role also mentors engineers and contributes to Agile delivery. Candidates must have extensive software engineering experience, strong architecture skills, and be available onsite in Houston five days per week.

Lead the Content Foundations engineering team and evolve Scribd’s high-scale document ingestion platform into a real-time, AI-native system. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy, integrating AI and ML capabilities, overseeing distributed data infrastructure, ensuring security and operational reliability, managing the roadmap, hiring and developing backend and AI data engineers, and partnering with product and engineering leaders across the organization.

Own the AI strategy and expansion roadmap for a strategic oil and gas enterprise account. Build executive relationships, identify and prioritize prediction use cases, develop business cases and ROI models, secure sponsorship and budgets, orchestrate technical delivery teams, measure realized value, and turn successful deployments into broader programs and repeatable expansion frameworks. The role requires strong oil and gas expertise, commercial acumen, technical fluency, and regular engagement with customer sites and company offices.

Lead Runpod’s Americas sales organization and revenue number across new business, expansion, and renewals. Manage and coach Account Executives and Account Managers, oversee forecasting and pipeline, lead complex enterprise deals and contract negotiations, build regional go-to-market strategy and sales playbooks, and convert product-led demand into revenue. Partner with Marketing, Product, Legal, and Finance while improving sales efficiency through AI and developing a remote-first team.