Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Richmond, VA

Design, deploy, and manage machine learning models supporting client acquisition, retention, and reactivation. Develop Next Best Action, CRM, paid media, and personalization solutions using LLMs and traditional ML. Design and interpret experiments, analyze large-scale datasets, communicate recommendations to stakeholders, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams on product and infrastructure roadmaps.

Own end-to-end client relationships for a book of B2B SaaS customers: drive adoption, engagement, retention, and expansion of AI-powered contract drafting tools. Lead onboarding, training, large-scale rollouts, and translate customer feedback into product improvements while designing scalable CS processes and tracking health metrics to demonstrate value.

Design, productionize, and scale machine learning and optimization models, pipelines, libraries, and deployment platforms. Partner with data scientists, engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to deliver ML capabilities, personalization systems, and reusable end-to-end workflows. Establish ML engineering best practices, troubleshoot data pipelines, mentor junior professionals, and help define BetterHelp’s ML platform strategy.

Manage enterprise metadata, business glossaries, data catalogs, and end-to-end data lineage for a federal case management modernization program. Configure governance and metadata platforms, integrate data sources and pipelines, establish standards and workflows, monitor metadata quality, support compliant data sharing, develop governance metrics, document procedures, and train data stewards and business users.

Own customer outcomes from discovery through production deployment. Build decision systems using ontologies, reasoning, graph analytics, optimization, and machine learning over enterprise data. Write Python, SQL, and PyRel; debug unfamiliar systems; tune performance; harden deployments; document reusable solutions; and upstream platform improvements. Lead technical workshops and proofs of concept while partnering closely with customers, Product, and Engineering.

Drive new-logo sales and revenue growth for Wonderlic’s talent assessment and employee development solutions. Identify and prospect target clients, build relationships with HR and recruiting decision-makers, manage opportunities through the full sales cycle, close new business, and transition customers to Customer Success. Maintain expertise in products, market trends, and competitive conditions while providing strategic insights. The role requires B2B SaaS and HR technology sales experience, quota achievement, pipeline generation, and experience selling to SMB, mid-market, and enterprise buyers.

Own strategic partnerships with CPG customers, driving measurable outcomes, platform adoption, user expansion, and retention. Analyze usage data and business context to identify risks and opportunities, develop success plans, lead executive and operational relationships, and advocate for customers internally. Collaborate with product, sales, marketing, and support teams while contributing to repeatable playbooks, thought leadership, and customer best practices.

Conduct applied research on scalable optimization and resource-allocation algorithms for large communication networks. Apply machine learning, reinforcement learning, integer optimization, graph-based methods, and metaheuristics to improve solution quality and efficiency. Collaborate with software engineers to integrate algorithms into production aerospace networking systems, evaluate performance at realistic scale, publish research, support patent applications, and document novel methods.

Manage the operational integrity of an automated group health insurance underwriting workflow. Review and approve RFPs, validate broker and external data, correct errors, monitor funnel and risk metrics, analyze quote-to-bind performance, triage inquiries, coordinate with sales and health plan operations, and maintain underwriting dashboards and reporting.

Lead AI agent optimization efforts by designing systems that improve token efficiency, response time, reliability, and output quality. Build agentic coding systems, develop AI application patterns, own features end to end, collaborate with engineering and field teams, support the developer community, and create public technical documentation. Work across Python, TypeScript, Java, and Go while serving as a domain expert in agent design and optimization.

Design and productionize machine learning, deep learning, LLM, personalization, recommendation, search, and retrieval systems. Collaborate with product, engineering, and analytics teams to deploy AI solutions that improve customer experiences, business growth, and operational efficiency. The role requires driving projects from ideation through deployment and delivering measurable business impact in a fast-moving fintech environment.

Designs, develops, and deploys enterprise Generative AI solutions using LLMs, semantic search, and AI orchestration. Builds monitoring systems, improves AI architecture, supports prompt engineering and evaluation, reviews code, and mentors engineers. Collaborates with product leaders and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, customer-facing AI applications. Requires Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Semantic Kernel, DevOps, CI/CD, testing, and advanced Python expertise.

Designs and implements AWS cloud architectures integrating modernization, data engineering, generative AI, and machine learning. Leads client architecture sessions, presales engagements, cloud migrations, data pipeline and lakehouse development, governance, security, and multi-region deployments. Advises clients on scalable, secure, cost-optimized solutions while collaborating with sales and delivery teams. Requires extensive AWS experience, AI/ML and data architecture expertise, infrastructure-as-code proficiency, and strong customer-facing skills.

Leads AI/ML engineering teams across platform and delivery pods, managing employees and contractors while enforcing code, agent, review, and production-readiness standards. Partners on reusable templates, pipelines, and evaluation processes, ensures adoption across teams, manages contractor performance and conversion, and removes delivery blockers. The role requires hands-on credibility reviewing agent architectures, prompts, and evaluation suites, with experience operating as a player-coach in fast-moving organizations.

Develop and optimize machine learning and statistical models for fraud detection and anti-money laundering. Analyze large datasets to identify fraudulent patterns, build scalable data pipelines and features, evaluate model performance, and collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams. Communicate insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders while maintaining data privacy and security compliance. The role offers significant ownership in building Oscilar’s early machine learning stack within a remote-first startup.

Own LanceDB’s product direction by shaping the roadmap with technical leadership, researching users and competitors, gathering continuous user insight, and driving cross-functional prioritization. The role partners closely with engineering as a technically respected peer, defines product changes for AI and data-platform users, uses metrics and experiments to guide decisions, and operates with high ownership in an ambiguous environment.

Advise enterprise clients on AI and data strategies, transformation roadmaps, operating models, governance, privacy, technology rationalization, and business cases. Lead discovery workshops, executive engagements, and art-of-the-possible sessions; prioritize use cases and connect technical recommendations to business outcomes. Build the advisory practice, develop offerings, manage multidisciplinary teams, mentor staff, strengthen client and partner relationships, and support successful distributed project delivery.

Designs and maintains high-volume HL7 and FHIR ingestion pipelines, secure Epic and hospital integrations, data validation systems, and compliant healthcare data exchanges. Builds enterprise SaaS microservices using ReactJS, Python, and AWS services; optimizes distributed and hybrid-cloud environments; leads testing, code reviews, production troubleshooting, architecture documentation, and customer communications. Preferred experience includes Epic App Orchard, healthcare integration engines, clinical workflows, GenAI/ML, DevOps, data pipelines, and NoSQL.

Tune AML and fraud detection models using customers’ live transaction data. Investigate missed cases, alert quality, pattern drift, and false positives; validate changes through backtesting and sample review; document regulatory rationale; and present model performance and business value to compliance, risk, and data science stakeholders. Partner with customer teams on account strategy and relay customer-specific or systemic findings to product and model functions.

Drive net-new enterprise customer acquisition from lead generation through contract closure. Build C-level relationships, develop account strategies, manage CRM pipelines and forecasts, negotiate complex contracts, and close large AI, machine learning, and data talent engagements. Partner with marketing, customer success, and talent teams to deliver customer outcomes and expand Factored AI’s enterprise footprint.

Develop and deploy predictive and causal models for personalization, retention, monetization, and product strategy. Design experimentation and measurement frameworks, analyze user and marketing behavior, quantify business impact, and translate complex findings into strategic decisions. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data Product teams to build scalable data solutions. Mentor peers, promote rigorous model validation and governance, and apply Python, SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Spark, and AWS to production-ready data science initiatives.

Lead the design and implementation of large-scale AI and machine learning systems for Yahoo Search across multiple teams. Define data strategies, evaluation frameworks, and scalable production-serving approaches. Drive technical alignment among engineering, product, design, and research teams; guide adoption of large language models, vision models, generative AI, and agentic AI; and oversee data analysis informing strategic product decisions.

Drive enterprise sales growth across North American banking, credit card, and financial services accounts. Develop strategic account and business development plans, build customer and partner relationships, close complex multi-million-dollar technology deals, and engage C-level stakeholders. Represent the company at industry events, collaborate with commercial and leadership teams, manage pipeline forecasting and reporting, and apply MEDDPICC methodology. The role focuses on cybersecurity, fraud prevention, authentication, and SaaS or cloud solutions, with 50% domestic and international travel.

As Director of Product, you will define and drive Kobie's data platform strategy to enhance marketing and loyalty programs, focus on AI integration, and develop commercial models.

Develop and enhance predictive models for search and recommendations using large datasets, statistical methods, and machine learning. Incorporate new data sources, design controlled experiments, communicate insights to senior leadership, research emerging methodologies, and help shape the data science roadmap. The role also requires collaboration, project delivery, and explaining technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.