Top Machine Learning Jobs in Richmond, VA

Leads the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of machine learning systems at scale. Responsibilities include building ML models and data pipelines, writing production code, optimizing cloud architectures, automating testing and deployment, monitoring and retraining models, and ensuring performance, governance, security, responsible AI, and explainability. The role collaborates with Product and Data Science teams in an Agile environment focused on enterprise AI coding tools.

Provides strategic legal counsel to cybersecurity and enterprise data teams, advising on incident response, technical risk, data use, privacy, emerging technology, and governance. Collaborates with compliance, risk, technical, and legal stakeholders to manage regulatory and reputational risks. Monitors cyber and data legislation, supports disclosures and regulatory filings, and advises on AI and product development matters.

Leads process risk assessments and mitigation initiatives across Enterprise Services, including cyber, cloud, network, data, resiliency, product, and third-party functions. Advises business partners, researches emerging risks and regulatory changes, manages multiple projects and workstreams, facilitates stakeholder interactions, reports outcomes to senior leadership, and drives process and control improvements.

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.

Designs and implements scalable AI, machine learning, automation, and generative AI solutions for clients. Responsibilities include assessing AI readiness, developing strategies, leading discovery and solution delivery, integrating AI with enterprise systems, advising on governance and responsible AI, managing client engagements, contributing to reusable AI offerings, and supporting business development. The role requires strong technical, consulting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Lead multiple product-focused engineering teams to design, build, deploy, and modernize risk-management software using full-stack technologies, microservices, AWS, Big Data, and ML; mentor engineers, improve engineering practices, and drive migration from monoliths to scalable services.

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.

Leads horizontal program management for Capital One’s AML Modeling and Advanced Data Insights organization. Responsibilities include optimizing workflows, coordinating engagement and onboarding, managing training programs, supporting planning ceremonies and large-scale projects, facilitating GenAI communities, improving cross-functional processes, and assisting with budgeting, recruiting, and resource management.

Own the strategy and roadmap for patient-provider search, retrieval, ranking, and marketplace matching. Lead experimentation, objective functions, evaluation, and ML platform foundations while partnering with ML engineers, data scientists, design, clinical teams, and executives. Improve successful, lasting care matches rather than optimizing only clicks or bookings. Balance patient access, provider growth, clinical quality, and payer priorities, while setting the standard for technically grounded product management.

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.

Analyze malware, binary files, customer detection tickets, and machine learning detections to improve detection efficacy and reduce false positives. Review product detections, assess binary legitimacy, address internal detection questions, and provide insights to data science teams. The role collaborates with technical account managers, incident response teams, data scientists, and malware researchers. Required capabilities include malware analysis, reverse engineering, Python scripting, binary fundamentals, threat assessment, research methods, operating systems, and AI-assisted workflow improvement.

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 product strategy and strategic initiatives for Capital One’s Consumer and Developer Experience organization. Partners with senior leaders, analyzes business landscapes, drives annual planning, supports AI transformation, develops product innovation and prototypes with engineering, and leads strategy and product teams. The role requires strong strategic problem-solving, product orientation, analytics, people leadership, relationship-building, communication, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity.

Review and audit machine learning models and model risk practices across the enterprise. Partner with cross-functional teams to design, train, evaluate, validate, and implement ML and NLP solutions, using tools like Python, Spark, H2O, and AWS. Translate technical findings into business recommendations and assurance for stakeholders and the Audit Committee, while researching and applying emerging Generative AI and state-of-the-art methods.

Develop, test, and integrate AI software for aerospace and industrial applications. Interns will use Python, JavaScript, and C++ to build AI solutions, evaluate data and algorithms, collaborate with machine learning and data engineers, monitor AI trends and regulations, and present progress to leadership and stakeholders.

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 product management for Payments Intelligence data products (APIs, datasets) focused on organizing, enhancing, and managing spend data. Define roadmap, prioritize features, collaborate cross-functionally, monitor performance and data quality, and drive resilient, high-performing data platform solutions that enable analytics and digital experiences.

Supports commercial enterprise sales by discovering customer requirements, aligning SailPoint solutions, delivering demonstrations, responding to RFPs, and leading Proof of Value evaluations. The role partners with sales, product, customer success, professional services, and channel teams while communicating technical and business value to IT and business stakeholders. It requires substantial pre-sales experience, enterprise software knowledge, SaaS architecture familiarity, and expertise in identity governance and access management.

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.

Own the end-to-end architecture, development, deployment, evaluation, and operations of AI and machine learning systems. Build predictive ordering models, agentic workflow copilots, retrieval and evaluation infrastructure, safety guardrails, and responsible AI practices. Prioritize AI initiatives based on business outcomes, establish model governance and production standards, advise product and engineering leadership, and mentor experienced contributors.

Own the strategy, roadmap, packaging, and go-to-market evolution of Pluralsight’s AI, Cloud, and Security learning solutions. Design blended learning programs, define expert perspectives, identify content and lab components, monitor market needs, and use customer and learner data to improve outcomes. Partner with Product, Sales, Marketing, Curriculum, Engineering, and Services teams, support strategic enterprise deals, manage solution benchmarks, and drive adoption, renewals, and revenue growth.

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.