Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Madison, WI

Drives operational excellence through data analysis, dashboards, process improvements, and cross-functional project leadership. The role embeds with business units to manage day-to-day operations, investigate trends, answer strategic questions, implement workflows, coordinate stakeholders, track deliverables, and present insights to technical and non-technical audiences. It serves as a strategic partner to operations leadership in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Lead complex R&D and scientific AI engagements from pre-sales through production delivery. Partner with executives, researchers, engineers, and product teams to define use cases, architectures, backlogs, MVPs, simulations, integrations, data pipelines, and success metrics. Assess technical feasibility, coordinate multidisciplinary workstreams, and develop reusable architectures and delivery playbooks. Apply AI, machine learning, cloud computing, scientific workflows, and HPC to transform research processes while influencing product roadmaps and scaling solutions across industries.

Own the technical sales cycle for Databricks consulting engagements, including discovery, architecture design, solution scoping, estimation, proposals, demos, proofs of concept, workshops, and statements of work. Design lakehouse, data engineering, analytics, governance, security, and AI architectures. Partner with sales, Databricks, alliance, and delivery teams while ensuring effective handoffs into implementation.

Develop experimental AI techniques for agentic marketing applications, especially image and video generation. Build proofs of concept, autonomous evaluation and improvement systems, realistic AI-generated video, and brand-aligned creative generation workflows. The role requires strong quantitative and probabilistic thinking, backend architecture skills, creativity with LLM applications, and product intuition.

Lead partner analytics by building scalable dashboards, forecasting and ROI models, and experimental designs to evaluate and optimize partner performance. Collaborate with Product, BD, Marketing, and Data Engineering to improve pipelines, translate insights into recommendations, and mentor analysts to scale partner growth.

Lead and own cross-organizational technical programs for ML and robotics platform development, define roadmaps and milestones, remove blockers, align diverse engineering teams, and drive adoption of platform best practices to deliver scalable autonomy and infrastructure outcomes.

Define and execute the market strategy for UserTesting’s AI solutions. Own positioning, messaging, value propositions, go-to-market plans, sales enablement, customer and buyer research, competitive differentiation, thought leadership, and market feedback loops. Translate complex AI workflows and human-judgment applications into compelling solutions for technical enterprise buyers, while influencing product and company strategy through cross-functional leadership.

Leads a team of machine learning engineers and data scientists developing and deploying styling algorithms and personalized client experiences. Owns AI and ML strategy, product roadmap contributions, experimentation, production deployment, code quality, and data practices. Partners with product, design, merchandising, styling, and business teams to optimize personalization outcomes while coaching the team and fostering collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence.

Lead delivery of medium- and large-scale AWS programs, overseeing planning, assurance, reporting, risk mitigation, program health, and customer outcomes. Manage multi-year product and service roadmaps, identify business opportunities, resolve customer issues, and drive continuous process improvement. Lead, recruit, coach, and develop business analysts and engineers while collaborating with technical and business leaders across global enterprise clients.

Own lifecycle marketing performance across patient onboarding, activation, early care, and retention. Design and analyze multichannel experiments, build reporting and dashboards, write SQL, diagnose funnel and segment performance, and integrate AI and machine learning signals into lifecycle journeys. Collaborate with Product, Operations, Data Engineering, Marketing Operations, Analytics, and Creative to improve patient outcomes and measurable business performance.

Leads enterprise cybersecurity architecture for AI, cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Designs secure AI architectures, cloud foundational controls, zero-trust identity models, API and data protections, and secure LLM, RAG, agent, and MCP integrations. Establishes governance, reusable security patterns, model-usage procedures, compliance controls, and audit readiness across AWS and Azure. Advises executives and technical teams, mentors security professionals, and drives secure cloud migrations while addressing AI/ML risks such as adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data drift, bias, and data leakage.

Lead and develop a team of partnership analysts; translate business questions into analytical frameworks, experiments, forecasts, and ROI models. Build dashboards and reporting infrastructure, analyze cohorts, funnels, retention, and partner performance, and own measurement frameworks for growth initiatives. Partner with Business Development, Engineering, Product, and Marketing to shape partnership strategy and communicate data-driven insights to technical and non-technical leaders.

Owns the strategy, roadmap, development, and adoption of financial data products and APIs. Partners with data science and engineering to integrate predictive and machine-learning models into scalable, trustworthy capabilities. Defines quality metrics, requirements, documentation, and support models while ensuring privacy, security, regulatory compliance, and downstream adoption across consumer and business banking products.

Lead technical direction and deliver large-scale ML platform infrastructure including feature store, model serving, experimentation, and training pipelines. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-team initiatives, resolve system-wide issues (latency, reliability, GPU utilization), and define safe ML deployment paths from registration through rollout, monitoring, and rollback.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, secure Java backend services and APIs. Ensure reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across microservices, databases, messaging systems, and capacity planning. Troubleshoot, profile, benchmark, and optimize systems (including ML applications) and collaborate with Kazakhstan stakeholders.

Design, develop, and validate functionally safe software for robotic perception systems. Build safety-critical architecture across Linux and real-time operating systems, create testing and validation frameworks for edge cases, collaborate with machine learning, hardware, and core software teams, and mentor junior engineers on safety-critical coding practices.

Drive MSSP partner growth across AMER by recruiting, onboarding, activating, and expanding strategic managed security service provider relationships. Develop territory recruitment plans, executive partnerships, joint business plans, and indirect routes to market. Help partners launch managed security services, generate pipeline, increase revenue, and accelerate time-to-revenue. Collaborate with sales, channel, marketing, services, and technical teams while managing forecasts, opportunities, executive reviews, and revenue objectives.

Leads Gilead’s enterprise Applied AI strategy for clinical development and operations. Owns the multi-year AI roadmap, predictive enrollment modeling, trial design optimization, site feasibility, real-world data integration, governance, value measurement, and scaled adoption. Builds and manages a cross-functional center of excellence spanning data science, ML engineering, GenAI, and delivery management. Partners across clinical, regulatory, technology, and commercial functions while overseeing budgets, change management, external partnerships, compliance, and organizational talent development.

Own and grow a Southeast or Mid-Atlantic commercial territory targeting companies with 500–2,500 employees. Responsibilities include prospecting, pipeline development, new business acquisition, upselling and cross-selling, multi-product deal closure, forecasting, territory management, executive presentations, negotiation, industry events, and collaboration with internal and channel teams. The role requires communicating cybersecurity and identity-access solutions to business leaders while consistently achieving sales quotas.

Lead AI-driven localization product initiatives from concept through production. Build strategic roadmaps, incubate machine-learning capabilities, partner with researchers and engineers, and deliver scalable tools for creators and content operations. Translate user needs into impactful products, communicate strategy to executives and nontechnical stakeholders, and use data, experimentation, and ML evaluation to prioritize work and measure outcomes.

Designs, builds, scales, and operates distributed CI/CD services supporting millions of builds, tests, and releases. Develops code for Azure-based infrastructure spanning virtual machines, containers, and custom lab environments. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, architecture and design documentation, estimation, debugging, optimization, operational playbooks, on-call incident response, monitoring, reliability improvements, and mentoring engineers.

Owns AI operations measurement, impact reporting, optimization, vendor partnerships, and governance. The role develops KPI frameworks and dashboards, connects AI performance to business outcomes, improves cost, latency, and accuracy, manages SaaS/API AI vendors, and establishes compliance and risk workflows. It requires influencing technical direction across teams, mentoring engineers, and communicating evidence-backed results to executives, customers, partners, and technical stakeholders.

Architect and operate North’s AWS and multi-cloud infrastructure, establishing IaC, CI/CD, security, observability, and disaster-recovery standards. Build AIOps capabilities including anomaly detection, predictive scaling, self-healing remediation, AI-assisted tooling, and cloud cost optimization. Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, Product Engineering, and InfoSec teams to deliver resilient, compliant, highly scalable platforms.

The Business Development Director will lead strategic engagement with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, focusing on alliance strategies, go-to-market execution, and revenue growth through innovative cloud solutions.

Pre-sales technical role: demonstrate Kore.ai platform, architect and whiteboard solutions, run use-case workshops, estimate ML effort, collaborate with product and delivery teams, and support sales to close enterprise AI and contact-center deals.