Top Machine Learning Jobs in Houston, TX

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with customers to identify operational problems, analyze imperfect data, rapidly prototype and deploy AI-powered solutions, and drive adoption. Responsibilities include building pipelines, models, dashboards, optimizers, agents, and operational applications; collaborating with stakeholders; training users; improving platform capabilities; and supporting follow-on customer opportunities. The role requires technical execution, product thinking, client partnership, commercial awareness, and significant travel.

Leads data and analytics transformation strategy for major client programs, defining roadmaps, use cases, architecture direction, and operating models. Advises senior stakeholders, facilitates strategy workshops, aligns programs to KPIs and value frameworks, supports governance and risk management, contributes to proposals and pre-sales, and mentors consulting and analytics teams.

The Staff ML Engineer will design and operate Samsara's ML platform, collaborating with teams to enhance ML features and improve safety outcomes. Responsibilities include overseeing system reliability, leading technical direction, and mentoring engineers.

Own machine learning models end to end, from data preparation and training through evaluation and production deployment. Build pipelines for large multimodal datasets including video, sensor streams, and language. Collaborate with engineering and computer vision teams, rapidly prototype solutions, apply relevant research, and continuously improve production models and tooling.

Source, develop, and close enterprise health system clients across a US territory. Build relationships with healthcare executives, launch and expand pilot programs, create account plans, meet revenue targets, and transition customers to Client Success. Collaborate with product, legal, marketing, support, and leadership; provide sales forecasts and pipeline reporting in HubSpot; influence the product roadmap; and represent Nabla at industry events.

Develop and launch scalable, user-facing features for AI-powered video and multimedia tools. Architect end-to-end solutions across backend and frontend systems, ensure quality and reliability, collaborate with design, product, and ML teams, and mentor engineers. The role involves rapid prototyping, experimentation, technical leadership, and shaping Pika’s core creative product.

Conduct applied AI and machine learning research for semiconductor testing. Define ambiguous technical problems, develop measurable evaluation methods, build and fine-tune models, and create RAG, knowledge-graph, and agent systems. Translate unstructured tester documentation and protocols into production solutions, collaborate with engineering and domain experts, and deploy tools that improve workflows. The role also requires monitoring emerging AI technologies and proposing new research directions.

Lead the technical direction and hands-on development of ML and operations research systems powering delivery dispatch. Build pricing, quote selection, forecasting, routing, batching, fleet recommendation, LLM, optimization, evaluation, and MLOps capabilities. Translate operational constraints into reliable models and solver formulations, establish production ML standards, and mentor engineers. The role partners with Product and leadership to deliver measurable improvements in revenue, margin, utilization, conversion, and delivery reliability.

Lead teams building computer vision and machine learning for AI dash cameras, managing model lifecycle, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and driving AI product development.

Lead Tilt’s product design function across consumer financial products. Set design vision and quality standards, manage and grow a team of six designers and one researcher, build research capabilities, influence product strategy, scale the design system, advocate for users, and partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and executive leadership. Drive AI-enabled design practices and ensure product experiences deliver measurable user and business impact.

Manage strategic enterprise accounts, building executive relationships, developing multi-year account plans, driving retention, expansion, upsell and cross-sell opportunities, and closing complex technology deals. Coordinate cross-functional Basis teams, lead executive business reviews, align customer priorities with company objectives, and represent Basis at customer and industry events.

Lead controls and instrumentation engineering for novel mineral refining facilities from concept through commissioning, ramp, and handover. Manage equipment providers, licensors, engineering firms, and cross-functional technical teams. Oversee instrument, valve, analyzer, network, and control-system selection and installation; support industrial machine-learning optimization and workflow automation. Mentor junior engineers and contribute to medium-to-large capital project execution, plant-network security, and development of the internal engineering team.

Own the strategy, roadmap, and growth of Ottimate’s new product initiatives across procurement, budgeting, spend planning, and contract management. Lead customer discovery, validation, MVP development, launches, and portfolio metrics. Manage product managers and designers, oversee Design and UX, and partner with engineering, data science, sales, marketing, and customer success to deliver coherent, market-ready products.

Owns and grows strategic Financial Services accounts by prospecting, developing channel and alliance opportunities, presenting cybersecurity solutions, closing new business, and expanding customer relationships. The role requires enterprise technology and security sales expertise, executive engagement, account planning, forecasting, reseller collaboration, and the ability to explain NDR, Agentic SOC, AI security, and network visibility solutions. Travel is primarily remote and on the road, with at least 50% travel required.

Build and scale production AI systems for Prophetic’s real estate intelligence platform. Responsibilities include developing agentic systems, data pipelines, inference workflows, evaluation benchmarks, geospatial processing, and machine learning applications across hundreds of millions of records. The role requires shipping reliable Python services, optimizing throughput and cost, integrating research into products, and collaborating with engineering and product teams.

Designs integration architecture for third-party agentic AI tools within secure, vendor-isolated government enclaves. Defines data packages, identity federation, tenant isolation, audit logging, and PHI/PII governance. Provides hands-on expertise in LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, tool use, multi-agent orchestration, and LLMOps. Guides AWS and Databricks-based AI/ML deployments, evaluation, monitoring, and automation while presenting architectures to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Lead development and deployment of predictive and ML models for credit risk, collections, and operations. Mentor data scientists, promote MLOps and modern tools, present insights to stakeholders, and drive experimentation with techniques such as causal inference and GenAI.

Develop and productize machine learning models for autonomous vehicle perception, including LiDAR and camera perception, sensor fusion, detection, classification, segmentation, and tracking. Build scalable data, training, metrics, and performance workflows, and implement efficient C++ code for the NVIDIA DRIVE AV platform. Collaborate across engineering teams, track advances in machine learning, and optimize models for real-time embedded inference.

Develop and deploy machine learning models and production software for multi-object tracking in autonomous trucks. Responsibilities include sensor fusion across camera, LiDAR, and radar; scalable PyTorch training workflows; tracking algorithm development; large-scale data analysis; C++ and Python engineering; safety and validation strategy; architecture decisions; and cross-functional collaboration. The role also provides technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and engineering best practices.

Own end-to-end analytical lifecycle to develop and optimize business, risk, and growth strategies. Monitor portfolio and macro trends, build and interpret ML-driven models, lead cross-functional launches, mentor junior analysts, and build AI-assisted workflows to improve decisioning and measurement across products and geographies.

Develop agentic AI systems and machine learning methods for drug discovery, including molecular and tabular in-context learning, few-shot adaptation, foundation models, and biological data analysis. Lead research projects from task definition and dataset construction through model training, benchmarking, ablations, and scientific validation. Collaborate with chemists and biologists, build reproducible research software, scale training pipelines, and translate successful methods into drug discovery capabilities and scientific publications.

Leads operations and digital transformation strategy, automation and AI implementation, PLM process improvement, governance, and operational metrics. Oversees cross-functional teams, manages direct reports, communicates roadmaps to executives, and coordinates headcount, budgets, schedules, and deliverables across multiple programs. Drives Lean continuous improvement, enterprise-system integration, technology adoption, and organizational capability development.

Own product areas for an autonomous banking platform, translating backend capabilities (APIs, async workflows, ML) into user-facing features. Conduct customer discovery, define technical requirements and acceptance criteria, prioritize backlog, partner with engineering on scoping and de-risking, and validate outcomes using feedback loops and analytics.

Lead the Product and Design organization, define product vision and roadmaps, prioritize strategic investments, and align cross-functional teams to deliver safe, scalable robotic delivery experiences. Build and develop high-performing product and design teams, champion user-centered design, guide data-driven decisions, and translate complex robotics, hardware, software, and operational capabilities into customer value. Partner with executive leadership across Engineering, Operations, Safety, Policy, and Business Development to drive commercialization and growth.

Lead performance marketing data science initiatives focused on lead segmentation, bidding optimization, targeting, and marketing spend allocation. Develop and deploy production-ready machine learning systems, establish research and ML operations roadmaps, build monitoring frameworks, and identify high-impact opportunities. Partner with engineering, marketing, vendors, and executives while mentoring data scientists and machine learning engineers and promoting rigorous, maintainable, and reproducible practices.