Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Madison, WI

Own the end-to-end product direction and quality of an AI-powered email application. Define AI and system requirements, evaluation frameworks, quality standards, and measurable outcomes. Partner closely with ML, backend, and client engineering teams to make trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, reliability, safety, and user experience. Drive prioritization, specifications, experimentation, failure-mode mitigation, and continuous iteration in a technical zero-to-one environment.

Own the end-to-end lead management lifecycle, including capture, enrichment, qualification, scoring, routing, sales handoff, disposition, and recycling. Establish governance, business rules, SLAs, controls, and performance metrics; optimize workflows and integrations; resolve data quality and lead-flow issues; and partner with Sales, Marketing, Data Science, IT, and Analytics. Manage and develop a small team while overseeing operational priorities, testing, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Lead hands-on engineering for an AI-powered email application across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Design reliable AI workflows involving orchestration, state, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. Define APIs and abstractions, make architecture and scalability decisions, improve observability and reliability, and lead a small team of senior engineers through technical reviews, mentorship, and production delivery.

Lead the technical side of enterprise sales for autonomous systems and physical AI customers. Own discovery, architecture reviews, demonstrations, proofs of concept, evaluations, deployments, and expansions. Translate customer workflows into solutions, address technical objections, and collaborate with Product and Engineering. Build scalable sales engineering processes, technical content, evaluation frameworks, and operating models while supporting strategic automotive OEM and enterprise opportunities.

Lead product strategy, requirements, and roadmap development for Honeywell Forge cloud applications serving utilities. Own AI and analytics capabilities for grid operations, DER management, rate design, and utility programs. Conduct customer and market discovery, competitive analysis, and voice-of-customer research. Partner with solution architects, sales, customers, and engineering to prioritize and deliver B2B SaaS products that generate measurable utility operational value.

Lead product strategy, requirements, roadmap, and AI capabilities for Honeywell Forge cloud applications serving utilities. Conduct customer and competitive discovery, translate utility workflows into product investments, define commercial opportunities, and partner with engineering to prioritize and deliver cloud-native B2B software. The role focuses on AI for grid operations, DER management, rate design, and utility program performance while ensuring measurable operational value.

Own the global consumer engagement and personalization domain across digital channels. Assess current capabilities, define multi-year strategy and roadmap, recommend personalization infrastructure investments, and translate priorities into shipped products. Partner with engineering, data science, design, marketing, legal, and regional teams to deliver scalable experiences. Establish metrics, run cross-market experiments, optimize performance, and make global versus localized decisions. Influence executives, mentor product managers, and apply AI, identity resolution, and generative AI to personalization.

Manage the AI opportunity roadmap for Risk Services, prioritizing use cases, coordinating internal data science teams and external vendors, translating business needs into requirements, and supporting AI governance, compliance, explainability, auditability, implementation, adoption, and benefits realization. The role focuses on business outcomes and solution delivery rather than hands-on model development.

Designs, develops, deploys, maintains, and optimizes ETL processes and cloud-based system integrations for healthcare data warehousing and business intelligence. Works with DHA and Cerner inpatient and outpatient data, develops database procedures, validates migrations, performs data mapping and modeling, and supports data science and machine learning teams. The role also documents processes, tunes performance, captures client requirements, and manages data transformation initiatives.

Own and develop SandboxAQ’s intellectual property function, including patent portfolio strategy, invention harvesting, prosecution, lifecycle management, outside counsel oversight, freedom-to-operate analyses, trademark clearance, and trade secret programs. Partner with scientists, engineers, and business teams to protect innovations, inform product strategy, support transactions, and build scalable IP processes in a fast-growing AI-focused company.

Manage a team of data scientists to develop fraud detection models, lead planning and collaboration with leadership, and communicate outcomes effectively while maintaining strong business intuition and technical leadership.

Advise clients on antitrust eDiscovery compliance using machine learning and generative AI. Build and validate TAR/AI models (Epiq AI, Relativity, Reveal, Brainspace), craft LLM prompts, draft defensible protocols, train/transfer workflows to review teams, and support client-facing, pre-sales, and thought-leadership activities. Must manage multiple projects and meet deadline-driven schedules.

Manage paid media strategies and campaigns across search, social, display, and programmatic channels. Advise clients using integrated paid, organic, and analytics data; oversee campaign performance, keyword research, ad copy, landing page recommendations, and presentations. Build client relationships, mentor account associates, collaborate with SEO and data teams, and use AI to improve workflows and outcomes.

Develop and lead paid media strategies across search, social, display, and programmatic channels. Manage campaign strategy, performance analysis, testing, optimization, and integrated paid and organic recommendations. Consult with clients, present results, build relationships, mentor account associates, and identify data-driven growth opportunities. Use AI tools to improve workflows and contribute insights across the team.

Leads AI-enabled Finance transformation initiatives from roadmap development through implementation and adoption. The role analyzes Finance processes, identifies automation opportunities, documents requirements, coordinates cross-functional Technology and Finance teams, manages change and training, tracks ROI and KPIs, and supports governance, compliance, SOX controls, and system integration across enterprise applications.

Leads technical strategy and product adoption for major Retail and CPG enterprise accounts as Databricks’ primary technical voice. Partners with account executives, guides customers through data and AI transformations, builds technical champions, aligns solutions to business strategies, and mentors team members. Requires extensive pre-sales, big data, cloud, data science, programming, and production data systems experience.

Identify and validate AI opportunities across IT operations and cybersecurity, including service management, threat detection, infrastructure monitoring, identity access, endpoint protection, and vulnerability management. Translate operational challenges into structured use cases, assess business value and risk, document data and integration requirements, promote responsible AI, facilitate stakeholder workshops, build internal champions, and monitor emerging AI capabilities while supporting security compliance and change management.

Owns CareSource’s EDI platform vision, roadmap, backlog, and delivery. Translates healthcare, regulatory, and integration requirements into technical specifications; partners with engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps, trading partners, and business teams; coordinates releases and Agile delivery; monitors transaction performance, defects, SLAs, and platform telemetry; drives data quality, observability, automation, compliance, documentation, and continuous improvement across EDI capabilities.

Build and lead Nebius’s federal affairs function in Washington, D.C. Develop policy strategy across AI regulation, trade, energy, infrastructure, and national security; establish bipartisan relationships with Congress and executive agencies; represent the company in federal initiatives and coalitions; assess regulatory risks; coordinate with legal, communications, and infrastructure teams; manage outside lobbying partners; and hire staff as the function scales.

Lead research, architecture, and production deployment of large-scale algorithms for budget pacing, bid optimization, and marketplace balancing in Yahoo’s DSP. Apply control theory, optimization, and machine learning to real-time systems, while establishing AI-augmented research and engineering workflows. Own multi-quarter initiatives, define evaluation frameworks, guide technical strategy, collaborate with product and engineering leadership, mentor scientists and engineers, and communicate complex research and architectural decisions to executives.

Lead the definition and evolution of cybersecurity technology platform and service offerings for cyber defenders and CISOs. Drive requirements through software and service lifecycles, deliver differentiated offerings to market, and guide cross-functional teams toward consistent, high-quality execution. The role requires deep expertise in at least two cybersecurity domains, managed services experience, strong communication skills, executive presentation ability, and awareness of AI’s impact on cyber defense.

Lead the vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, delivery, adoption, and lifecycle management of an enterprise AI platform. Manage three direct reports and collaborate across technology, cybersecurity, risk, legal, compliance, data, and analytics. Ensure secure, scalable, governed, and responsible AI capabilities while translating business and technical priorities into measurable product outcomes. Drive stakeholder alignment, platform adoption, continuous improvement, executive communication, and team development in a highly regulated environment.

Manage paid social campaigns and full-funnel strategies across Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat, and other paid channels. Oversee client accounts, analyze performance, identify growth opportunities, build client relationships, and collaborate with SEO, creative, and analytics teams. Contribute to thought leadership, coach associates, maintain quality standards, and explore automation, AI, and LLM search visibility initiatives.

Leads and manages an applied machine learning team developing fraud detection and identity verification models. Responsibilities include people management, coaching, code review, production ML systems, model lifecycle ownership, experimentation, deployment, monitoring, fraud research, cross-functional prioritization, and communicating results. The role remains hands-on while partnering with Product, Engineering, Risk, and leadership to drive measurable business impact and shape future product strategy using machine learning and AI.

Lead the strategy, design, deployment, and scale-up of AI-powered health products across the Global South. Own product roadmaps, execution, government-system integration, stakeholder adoption, partnerships, grant development, and portfolio expansion. Collaborate with engineering, machine learning, program, and domain teams to deliver sustainable, measurable public-health impact.