Top Machine Learning Jobs in Richmond, VA

Design, develop, and implement AI/ML models; analyze large datasets; integrate AI solutions into existing systems; apply MavLink for autonomous systems; collaborate across teams and improve ML development processes.

Oversee global analytics and algorithm design initiatives for a nonprofit: identify high-impact projects, coordinate with student directors, collect feedback, design and run training for developers and technical advisors, and form partnerships to support implementation. Volunteer commitment ~5-6 hours/week.

The AI Engineer will build data pipelines and improve ML systems for reliability in production. Responsibilities include schema design, data infrastructure, and model evaluation, ensuring high-quality outputs and integration with product workflows.

Lead the development of production-grade machine learning systems, build ML pipelines, and optimize models for deployment and performance.

Independently validate and monitor machine learning models for credit underwriting, credit risk, and fraud detection. Identify model weaknesses, recommend improvements, and collaborate with model owners to remediate findings. Support and maintain the Model Risk Management framework and coordinate with Internal Audit, Internal Controls, and Compliance on audit and regulatory requests.

As a Machine Learning Engineer II, you will enhance AI systems for automating customer operations, develop evidence extraction pipelines, and collaborate with teams on model development and deployment.

You will execute and improve insurance workflows, analyze operational efficiency, collaborate with product teams, and support onboarding and documentation efforts.

Lead end-to-end data science and AI projects: translate business problems, prepare large datasets, build and deploy predictive/prescriptive and generative AI models (including LLM fine-tuning and prompt engineering), communicate insights to stakeholders, and promote responsible, explainable AI practices across consulting engagements.

Lead AI risk assessments, reviews, and monitoring to support AI governance at a financial institution. Evaluate internal and third-party AI solutions, maintain an enterprise AI inventory, analyze controls and risk metrics, build dashboards and reports, and provide quantitative and advisory support across stakeholders to enable responsible AI adoption and regulatory readiness.

Lead complex transaction monitoring investigations to detect money laundering, terrorist financing, and fraud. Analyze large datasets and payment activity, coach analysts, review investigation quality, improve monitoring rules and processes, collaborate cross-functionally, and support regulatory reporting and audits.

Host SkillBridge participants (transitioning US military) for up to six months of skilled on-the-job training across tracks including cyber, information operations, intelligence, space, data science, machine learning, and programming. Participants work on technical integration and mission-support projects while remaining on active-duty pay and must obtain unit approval and clearance eligibility.

Lead product vision and roadmap for data and analytics products (ML, generative AI, data pipelines, BI). Translate business needs into developer-ready features, maintain backlog, collaborate with engineering and stakeholders, track KPIs, and drive adoption and continuous improvement.

Build and maintain full-stack features, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure for large-scale ad management and analytics. Integrate with advertising platform APIs, apply ML/NLP for forecasting and recommendations, collaborate with product and marketing teams, and use AI coding tools to accelerate development.

Lead architecture and development of high-scale systems for ingesting, processing, storing, and serving user profiles. Drive cross-team initiatives across APIs, streaming infrastructure, and data processing. Improve scalability, reliability, data quality, observability, and performance while mentoring engineers and partnering with product, data, and ML teams to enable segmentation, personalization, and ML use cases.

Lead causal inference and measurement efforts for payments, build and evaluate ML/AI and LLM-based models, optimize fraud mitigation and loss strategies, simulate interventions, and communicate findings to stakeholders to drive product and risk decisions.

Lead Lean transformation initiatives and AI coordination to enhance process excellence across multiple business functions, coaching teams and ensuring integration with operational standards.

Own end-to-end analysis of payments, chargebacks, and user lifecycle to identify drivers of net loss. Deep-dive into fraud cases, design and evaluate A/B experiments and risk-rule changes, build monitoring dashboards, partner with Risk, Payments, and Product to convert insights into mitigations, and run ad-hoc analyses of emerging loss trends.

The Product Marketing Manager will develop go-to-market strategies, create compelling messaging, perform market research, and collaborate with product and sales teams to position Oscilar's AI risk platform effectively.

Lead and execute independent research programs on NLP and LLM safety, design and run experiments, secure funding, publish and present results, lead cross-functional teams, and develop evaluation tools and challenges to advance digital safety.

Provide legal support for commercialization and product development of an AI-powered ad tech platform: draft and negotiate commercial agreements, manage IP portfolio and complex IP litigation, advise on AI, data, and privacy matters, counsel product teams on compliance and IP protection, and develop automated legal workflows.

Own end-to-end compliance issue management for Lemonade's personal lines insurance products: identify, track, prioritize, remediate, and report issues; analyze data for root causes and trends; build remediation plans; recommend risk-based priorities to leadership; engage regulators; and develop AI/automation tools and cross-functional reporting to improve compliance processes.

Lead integrated paid media strategy and execution across channels, modernize media planning with technology and data, manage agency/vendor relationships and multimillion-dollar budgets, build media capabilities and teams, and deliver executive insights to optimize ROI using AI, automation, and advanced measurement.

Serve as primary post-sales strategic partner for largest enterprise clients, driving AI Agent adoption, ROI, optimization, governance, renewals, and cross-functional advocacy to turn customers into champions.

Own growth and performance for Kits AI across funnel optimization, activation, retention, pricing, and monetization. Productize ML capabilities into creator-facing workflows, partner with research and engineering, run experiments and analytics (e.g., Amplitude), conduct customer research, and leverage AI tools to accelerate shipping and internal insight systems.

Lead design, build, deploy, and maintain production ML and AI systems (including LLM inference, RAG, similarity search, observability, and governance). Collaborate cross-functionally to create data pipelines, retrain and monitor models, and apply responsible, explainable AI practices while contributing technical vision and roadmap for AI solutions.