Top Machine Learning Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead the architecture and development of Root’s machine learning platform for insurance pricing. Build infrastructure for feature pipelines and stores, reproducible training and orchestration, model registries, serving, validation, observability, and research-to-production workflows. Establish versioned contracts and technical standards, automate workflows using LLMs, write and review critical code, influence cross-team strategy, and mentor senior engineers. Collaborate closely with data scientists and researchers to create scalable, reliable, and reproducible ML capabilities.

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.

Build production machine learning benchmarks and evaluation systems for foundation models. Own backend infrastructure including data pipelines, execution environments, storage, and orchestration, as well as sandboxed environments for agentic evaluations. Partner with researchers, enterprise customers, and company leadership to scope and deliver technical solutions. Identify scalable evaluation patterns, communicate clearly, and operate effectively in an ambiguous, high-ownership startup environment.

Build and operate scalable ML infrastructure and platform capabilities across cloud and on-premises environments. Develop Python-based developer tooling, services, and production systems supporting experimentation, distributed training, model deployment, and operations. Lead complex initiatives from architecture through rollout, improve reliability and developer productivity, and partner with ML and infrastructure teams. The role emphasizes Kubernetes, AWS, distributed compute, GPU-intensive workloads, observability, and production excellence.

You will tackle AI challenges, develop scalable software and collaborate with teams to enhance healthcare navigation using AI solutions.

Lead and transform the Fraud Intelligence Team into a high-impact function by improving operating models, QA, tooling, and metrics; build entry-level talent programs; connect labeling to measurable fraud prevention outcomes; deliver actionable insights to Product, R&D, Analytics, and GTM; and leverage AI and automation to increase productivity and business impact.

Partner with functional leaders to translate business strategy into people strategy. Own org design, performance management, compensation, talent development, engagement, and retention. Provide coaching on career pathing, change management, and sensitive employee issues. Use people data to generate insights and recommendations, build compliant HR policies, manage global employee relations, and collaborate with People Team COEs to deliver cohesive people programs at scale.

Serve as second-in-command for Coinbase Derivatives' Market Regulation Department, leading day-to-day regulatory compliance, managing exams and audits, advising on CFTC Core Principles, reviewing surveillance escalations and enforcement actions, and coordinating cross-functional regulatory workstreams to ensure the DCM meets obligations and resolves findings timely.

Develop and maintain open-source Python frameworks and ML developer tools, architect scalable libraries, grow early-stage projects, build real-time streaming capabilities, integrate modern frontend technologies, and collaborate with open-source contributors and the broader developer community.

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.

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 development and maintenance of character creation, rigging, animation, and simulation tools for game production. Collaborate with artists, engineers, studios, and research teams to prototype workflows, integrate game engines, optimize environments, and apply AI/ML to improve development efficiency. Build and customize internal tools, automate project environments, troubleshoot production issues, document systems, and support varied client pipelines. Participate in internal demonstrations and conferences, with required travel.

Designs and deploys large-scale NVIDIA AI and HPC GPU infrastructure for cloud partners and strategic customers. Leads technical engagements across the customer lifecycle, supports infrastructure development and production, builds networking and compute proofs of concept, troubleshoots performance and scaling issues, and delivers technical presentations and workshops. Partners with sales and business teams to identify opportunities and provides customer feedback to influence product strategy.

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.

Manage strategic enterprise accounts across a national territory, expanding existing customers and acquiring new logos. Build consultative account strategies, serve as a trusted AI and customer experience advisor, develop customer and channel-partner relationships, forecast and exceed bookings targets, and coordinate cross-functional teams to maximize customer and business outcomes. Support initiatives across the customer lifecycle, including business development, messaging, commercial positioning, and operational effectiveness.

Leads product strategy, roadmap development, prioritization, product metrics, and go-to-market execution for a marketing planning and analytics platform. Manages and coaches product managers while acting as an individual contributor on key initiatives. Partners with the CEO, engineering, sales, marketing, and leadership teams to deliver API-based, data-heavy statistical and machine learning products for technical B2B SaaS customers.

Lead product management for Capital Ones Enterprise AI/ML platform, building intelligence capabilities and tools for data scientists and ML engineers. Drive roadmap, cross-functional execution with engineering, risk, security, and business partners, ensure governance, resiliency, and cost controls, and deliver scalable, user-centered platform experiences.

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.

The Machine Learning Engineer will build data-intensive products, deploy ML models, analyze datasets, and collaborate with product teams to enhance Nextdoor's platform.

Owns the end-to-end product strategy and execution for AI-powered systems. Defines requirements, evaluation frameworks, quality standards, and system behavior while balancing quality, latency, cost, reliability, safety, and user experience. Partners closely with ML, backend, and client engineering teams to identify failure modes, improve model performance, prioritize roadmaps, and deliver predictable, useful, trusted AI experiences.

Own the end-to-end product direction and quality of an AI email application. Define AI and system requirements, translate model capabilities into product decisions, balance quality, cost, latency, reliability, safety, and user experience, and partner with ML, backend, and client engineers. Establish evaluation frameworks, quality standards, feedback loops, and failure recovery strategies while driving prioritization, execution, experimentation, and user trust in a zero-to-one environment.

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 product direction and quality of an AI-powered email application. Define AI and system requirements, translate model capabilities into product decisions, establish evaluation frameworks, and balance quality, latency, cost, safety, reliability, and user experience. Partner closely with ML, backend, and client engineers to identify failure modes, improve system behavior, prioritize execution, and build predictable, trustworthy AI experiences.

Lead application engineering for an AI-powered email product across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Design reliable AI workflows involving orchestration, state, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. Build APIs connecting AI capabilities to product experiences, make architectural trade-offs, establish observability and operational excellence, and lead a small team of senior engineers through hands-on technical mentorship and code development.

Own the end-to-end strategy, requirements, quality, and execution of an AI-powered email product. Partner closely with ML, backend, and client engineers to define system behavior, evaluate model performance, manage trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, reliability, safety, and UX, and establish feedback loops. Drive prioritization, specifications, experimentation, failure handling, and product quality in a technical zero-to-one environment.