Top Machine Learning Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead complex, cross-functional AI programs end-to-end: translate strategy into integrated plans, drive multi-team execution, mitigate risks (data, model, compliance), apply ML lifecycle practices, use Agile/kanban methods, manage budgets/vendors, communicate to senior stakeholders, and mentor other program managers to improve AI program standards.

Design and implement machine learning models to solve business problems, analyze data for insights, and optimize model performance.

Manages client relationships and technology and analytics project delivery. Advises data science and engineering teams on business analysis, technology approaches, project scope, schedules, costs, risks, and quality assurance. Develops client engagement strategies, technology roadmaps, proposals, statements of work, and pricing. Partners with executives to identify portfolio growth opportunities and communicates the business value of analytics, statistics, and machine learning.

Designs and operates production multi-agent AI systems, LLM workflows, scoring and optimization algorithms, and closed-loop autonomous processes. Responsibilities include AI model evaluation, production monitoring, governance, third-party AI integration, federated data retrieval, and identifying patentable inventions. The role requires deep machine learning expertise, algorithm development, and deployment experience across complex operational environments.

Leads Mercury’s cross-line AI/ML research capability across insurance products. Responsibilities include setting strategy, building a research tooling team, modernizing workflows, developing model monitoring and AI infrastructure, establishing responsible AI guardrails, partnering across technology and data science teams, driving adoption, and coaching talent. The role requires strong quantitative, insurance analytics, Python, machine learning, generative AI, and LLM evaluation expertise, along with substantial people and cross-functional leadership experience.

Design and implement machine learning and optimization algorithms for Netflix’s ad marketplace. Build, train, and evaluate models using large-scale production data; develop online and offline evaluation frameworks; and partner with product teams to define objectives and trade-offs. Communicate technical decisions and experiment results to diverse stakeholders while providing technical guidance and aligning ML solutions with business goals.

Drive go-to-market execution across Nabla’s product portfolio, including positioning, messaging, sales enablement, competitive intelligence, demand-generation partnerships, customer adoption content, and event support. Progress into owning go-to-market strategy for specific products from early definition through launch and adoption, partnering with Product and Engineering and tracking launch success metrics.

The Sr. Machine Learning Engineer will develop and deploy ML solutions for healthcare, manage data pipelines, and work with large datasets to enhance healthcare delivery.

As a Staff Applied ML Scientist, you will develop and maintain fraud detection models, conduct research on fraud types, and collaborate across teams to drive product development and real-time decision-making.

As a Senior Applied ML Scientist, you'll develop fraud detection models, research new fraud types, and write production code while collaborating across teams to enhance SentiLink's identity verification solutions.

Lead end-to-end healthcare analytics projects, managing scope, planning, execution, client relationships, cross-functional collaboration, risks, and delivery. Provide thought leadership in healthcare analytics and identify business opportunities within client accounts. Required capabilities include quantitative analysis, project management, communication, presentation, SQL/Python/R proficiency, and strategic use of AI tools. Preferred experience includes consulting, cloud analytics platforms, healthcare data regulations, predictive modeling, machine learning, and data visualization.

Leads architecture and development of production-grade mapping and localization ML systems for autonomous vehicles. Designs neural models for detection, segmentation, tracking, depth estimation, 3D reconstruction, and semantic mapping; owns data strategy, evaluation, deployment, and fleet validation. Mentors engineers, drives technical roadmaps, collaborates cross-functionally, and advances vectorized HD mapping, foundation models, and real-time optimization.

Own end-to-end design for complex financial product experiences from exploration through launch and iteration. Translate financial workflows into intuitive customer experiences, set high standards for interaction and visual design, partner with product and engineering, use research and data to guide decisions, contribute to design systems, present work clearly, and mentor teammates. Apply AI-enabled tools thoughtfully while maintaining strong human-centered judgment.

Assess AI-enabled products and software against regulatory requirements and standards, supporting conformity assessments, CE marking, certification, and client guidance. Review technical documentation, mentor colleagues, develop assessment procedures and tools, contribute to AI testing methodologies, and support accreditation, quality, and continuous improvement activities. The role requires practical AI/ML experience, regulatory knowledge, strong analytical skills, and collaboration across global multidisciplinary teams.

Develop and optimize large-scale advertising ranking models for CTR and CVR prediction, calibration, user representations, and sequence modeling. Own machine learning systems end to end, including data pipelines, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, and maintenance. Collaborate with platform, product, data science, and engineering teams to run experiments and improve advertiser outcomes, revenue, and user relevance. Apply deep learning and recommendation techniques within production latency, reliability, and cost constraints.

Lead research and experimentation to measure ad campaign performance and effectiveness. Design evaluation frameworks, build measurement solutions, develop models for lift, conversion, and attribution, run experiments and analyses, partner with product/engineering/design/sales, present insights, mentor teammates, and foster technical community and culture.

Build and operate scalable, highly available ML/LLM serving and compute infrastructure. Own long-term platform vision, deliver zero-to-one projects, partner cross-functionally, optimize performance and capacity, and support production ML models at scale.

Design, productionize, and deploy machine learning forecasting models for ad inventory and campaign performance in low-latency, real-time advertising environments. Build scalable simulation, budgeting, and pacing systems; collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy models at scale and optimize ad monetization.

Lead design, execution, and optimization of scaled lifecycle campaigns across email and in-product channels. Use marketing automation, behavioral data, and ML techniques to personalize journeys, drive activation, revenue, retention, and cross-sell. Analyze performance, generate insights, and collaborate with Growth, Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Sales, and Marketing stakeholders.

Lead a team to analyze, optimize, and grow merchant revenue using analytics and AI. Define strategy, set KPIs, deploy ML solutions, drive go-to-market alignment, execute tests, and deliver actionable insights to executives and cross-functional partners.

Lead the hands-on development of Vida’s secure data and AI/ML platform, including ingestion, data modeling, MLOps, model serving, feature pipelines, LLM integrations, DevOps, observability, and infrastructure. Partner with security and IT to protect sensitive health data and meet HIPAA/HITRUST-aligned controls while establishing scalable engineering patterns across the organization.

Lead the architecture, implementation, governance, and operation of enterprise AI agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Design agents, knowledge bases, action groups, orchestration workflows, registries, guardrails, and emergency shutdown controls. Guide ECS deployments, API Gateway integrations, IAM governance, authentication, and platform standardization. Provide technical leadership to engineering and DevOps teams while collaborating with AWS specialists, customers, and business stakeholders.

Conduct machine learning research operations using existing infrastructure. Characterize neural network quality, failure modes, and edge cases; coordinate experiments with researchers; manage concurrent experiments and deadlines; review results; recommend theoretical or process improvements; and prepare technical reports communicating qualitative and quantitative findings.

Lead the development of pricing algorithms for vehicle valuation at CarMax, managing a team of data scientists to implement strategies and maintain optimal pricing models.

The Senior Product Manager will set product direction, own the development lifecycle, collaborate with teams, and ensure high-quality outputs. This role requires strong opinions on product quality and customer insights.