Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Madison, WI

Develop and maintain production machine learning models, build scalable training and serving technologies, optimize real-time and batch ML pipelines, and monitor model performance and drift. The role involves deep neural networks, recommendation systems, automated retraining, ML research, engineering excellence, and communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences. Candidates need 6+ years of industry ML experience, strong coding skills, and experience deploying neural networks at scale.

Design, build, deploy, and support scalable Java microservices on AWS. Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, code reviews, troubleshooting, proof-of-concept development, and cross-functional collaboration. Work with high-throughput data, messaging systems, distributed architectures, observability, and AI-assisted development tools. Participate in on-call support, mentor engineers, lead architectural initiatives, and deliver reliable SaaS platform features.

The Senior Data Scientist supports Customer Success through deep-dive analysis, predictive modeling, causal inference, experimentation, and KPI development. The role analyzes churn, retention, renewals, upsell opportunities, and revenue trends; diagnoses metric shifts; builds data pipelines and dashboards; and develops AI/LLM-powered solutions. The scientist collaborates with stakeholders, communicates insights, improves data quality, and measures the impact of customer success initiatives and product changes.

Own the strategic vision and roadmap for Coursera’s search experience, including conversational, personalized, semantic, multilingual, and AI-driven discovery. Partner with engineering, design, research, data science, marketing, and product teams to improve search accuracy, conversion, and learner engagement. Lead experimentation, KPI measurement, competitive analysis, and revenue-focused personalization initiatives across a global learning platform.

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.

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.

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.

Tenure-track, open-rank faculty position in Learning Sciences integrating artificial intelligence. Responsibilities include establishing a visible research program, publishing, securing extramural funding, mentoring graduate students, teaching graduate/undergraduate courses, and contributing to departmental, school, and university service. Research may focus on generative AI, LLMs, multimodal models, human-AI interaction, CSCL, and ethical implications of AI in education.

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.

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.

Develops and validates machine learning and statistical models for anti-money laundering, transaction monitoring, customer screening, and risk rating. The role evaluates AML data quality, integrates vendor solutions, maintains governance and regulatory documentation, leads model lifecycle quality control, and reports performance through management dashboards. It also supports AML risk assessments, audits, regulatory examinations, and cross-functional stakeholder coordination.

The role involves deploying and supporting CrowdStrike's AI capabilities in cybersecurity, optimizing threat detection, and mentoring teams on AI solutions.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze data to drive product strategy, optimize performance, and support product launches, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Conducts research on epigenetic regulation of hematopoietic stem cells and their role in development, cell fate, and malignant transformation. Responsibilities include developing research methods, conducting experiments, analyzing and documenting data, reviewing literature, preparing reports, supporting scholarly events, liaising with stakeholders, and assisting with grant applications. The role requires independent scientific initiative, collaboration, and publication experience.

Lead Amazon performance marketing strategy and execution, manage Sponsored Ads and DSP, collaborate with agencies and cross-functional teams, optimize campaigns and budgets, analyze performance with AMC/analytics, and measure commercial impact to drive ROAS and customer acquisition.

Develop and own production software controlling and calibrating neutral-atom quantum computers. Build backend services, control frameworks, scientific data pipelines, CI/CD systems, and containerized deployments. Debug the full control stack from embedded kernels through distributed services, collaborate closely with physicists and hardware engineers, and create tooling for experiments, real-time image analysis, and object detection.