Top Machine Learning Jobs in Richmond, VA

Leads cyber risk assurance strategy and multidisciplinary teams responsible for control monitoring, testing, evidence management, issue remediation, audit support, regulatory readiness, and assurance automation. The role advances continuous, AI-enabled assurance by translating regulatory and cybersecurity requirements into measurable outcomes, maintaining assurance frameworks, evaluating control effectiveness, managing concurrent activities, and reporting metrics to support executive risk decisions.

Analyze telematics, IoT, sensor, and firmware data to evaluate hardware performance, reliability, and field issues. Build dashboards and reports, identify trends and anomalies, apply statistical and machine learning techniques, validate firmware improvements, and provide actionable insights to engineering, product, data science, and customer support teams. Help develop scalable data pipelines and promote data-driven hardware and software development.

Own and negotiate complex commercial transactions, including customer agreements, research collaborations, partnerships, data licenses, SaaS contracts, vendor agreements, and professional services agreements. Partner with sales, science, finance, and R&D teams, particularly on life sciences and computational chemistry deals. Build scalable legal infrastructure through playbooks, templates, fallback positions, self-service processes, and AI-enabled contract workflows.

Leads go-to-market strategy and product marketing for emerging AI products in the defense market. Responsibilities include positioning, messaging, launch planning, technical content, demonstrations, market research, competitive analysis, product evangelism, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, Growth, and executive teams. The role translates complex technical capabilities into customer value and supports product adoption in new or undefined markets.

Leads technical product marketing strategy for UDS Fleet, including positioning, messaging, go-to-market planning, launches, adoption, market research, competitive analysis, technical content, demonstrations, and sales enablement. Partners with Product, Engineering, Growth, and leadership to communicate the value of edge, distributed, and secure software deployment capabilities across defense environments. Serves as a product evangelist and translates complex technical concepts into customer-focused narratives.

Leads Lexia’s business analytics and data strategy function, managing analysts and overseeing data engineering alignment. Owns BI strategy, Tableau governance, data governance, self-service dashboards, AI-enabled analytics, metric definitions, and data quality. Partners with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, executives, and analytics engineering to translate business needs into insights, KPIs, models, and actionable recommendations. Manages analytics tools and vendors while ensuring responsible, secure, and effective use of enterprise data.

Leads technical enablement and sales success for strategic national channel partners. Aligns partner and company go-to-market strategies, develops business plans, conducts technical and sales training, supports evaluations and configurations, and serves as a trusted technical advisor throughout the sales cycle. Builds executive relationships, coordinates training and marketing activities, gathers partner requirements, mentors technical managers, and collaborates with sales, systems engineering, and channel teams.

The Director of Data owns the company’s data platform, governed metrics, client identity resolution, data quality, privacy controls, and AI-ready datasets. This leader manages the data team, establishes governance and operating standards, oversees warehouse and pipeline architecture, and ensures reliable data for Finance, leadership, products, and ML/LLM systems. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, roadmap ownership, stakeholder communication, and accountability for data reliability, lineage, security, and platform costs.

Leads strategy, roadmaps, backlogs, discovery, delivery, and continuous improvement for AI-powered products. Partners with engineering, AI/ML, data, design, and business teams to translate customer needs into measurable solutions using generative AI, LLMs, agents, and automation. Manages stakeholders, product metrics, responsible AI considerations, and complex consulting engagements, including PMO and multi-team delivery responsibilities.

Leads the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise AI solutions. Defines AI strategies, scalable architectures, technology roadmaps, governance practices, and modern technology stacks. Partners with business and technical stakeholders, guides development teams, evaluates emerging technologies, supports consulting pursuits, and provides technical leadership throughout project lifecycles. The role also mentors architects and engineers and requires client relationship development and travel.

Coordinates data platform incident response, triage, escalation, root cause analysis, problem management, post-incident reviews, and operational improvements. Maintains runbooks, documentation, metrics, dashboards, and stakeholder communications. Implements and monitors security controls, supports security incident response, vulnerability remediation, compliance audits, regulatory reporting, disaster recovery exercises, and cross-functional coordination across data, cloud, infrastructure, DevSecOps, application, and governance teams.

Leads enterprise master data and product data architecture, defining target-state designs, data models, governance, quality, enrichment, classification, matching, and AI-enabled automation. Translates complex business and technical needs into scalable, secure solutions; evaluates platforms and vendors; manages architecture risks and trade-offs; and mentors architects, engineers, analysts, product owners, and delivery teams. Partners with senior leaders to advance Ferguson’s master data, product data, and responsible AI strategy.

Leads clinical intelligence initiatives by sizing AI opportunities, conducting data discovery, evaluating AI/ML solution performance, and measuring impact, accuracy, drift, and patient outcomes. Partners with product, clinical, engineering, compliance, and operations teams to develop measurement plans, value hypotheses, benchmarks, and scalable intelligence capabilities. The role is remote with occasional travel and requires advanced SQL, Python, clinical analytics, and population health research expertise.

Develop and deploy AI-driven applications, workflows, integrations, and ServiceNow solutions for enterprise customers. Gather requirements, configure and script ServiceNow modules, implement Now Assist and other AI capabilities, integrate external systems through REST, SOAP, MID Servers, and ETL, and support testing, documentation, deployment, incident remediation, service mapping, and event management. Collaborate with stakeholders and technical leads while maintaining consistent platform patterns.

Owns core backend computation services that produce correct, reproducible, traceable, and auditable financial results. Designs configuration-driven architectures, data-intensive services, and set-based warehouse computations. Requires strong Python, SQL, data modeling, system design, reliability, isolation, and testing expertise. Provides technical leadership through design reviews, engineering standards, and mentorship while partnering with data, AI, and product teams.

Build and own scalable data architecture, canonical data models, configurable source integrations, and reliable pipelines for AI-driven financial intelligence. Use SQL, Python, dbt, cloud data warehouses, and orchestration tools to deliver idempotent, auditable data workflows. Establish lineage, data contracts, quality controls, and schema evolution practices. Lead architecture reviews, mentor distributed data engineers, and support customer-hosted multi-cloud deployments with strict tenant isolation and traceability.

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.

Designs and builds highly scalable, fault-tolerant Azure compute services, microservices, REST APIs, billing pipelines, and distributed systems. Responsibilities include improving availability, security, scalability, performance, disaster recovery, and compute utilization; using telemetry and data-driven insights; developing cloud-native solutions with containers, NoSQL, and Big Data technologies; and leveraging AI-assisted development in an Agile environment.

Develop fraud-detection and identity-risk machine learning models from problem definition through deployment. Investigate fraud patterns, engineer predictive features, evaluate model performance, and monitor drift across batch and real-time decisioning environments. Collaborate with senior data scientists and engineers using Python and PySpark while supporting model documentation, explainability, privacy, validation, and governance.

Write technically accurate case studies, articles, product explainers, launch materials, and social content for AI engineers, researchers, and technical leaders. Interview customers, partners, and internal experts; learn HUD’s platform and workflows; explain technical products and research clearly; support founder communications; manage content from ideation through publication; and improve content using reader and go-to-market feedback.

Support analytics by cleaning, validating, and transforming data; build dashboards and KPI reports; perform trend, cohort, and A/B testing analyses; improve data pipelines and forecasting; present insights to cross-functional teams.

Own a new enterprise sales territory, build pipeline from zero, and close advisory-style security software deals with large organizations. Develop relationships with senior security leaders, engineers, and data science teams; tailor sales engagements over lengthy cycles; coordinate demonstrations with pre-sales specialists; and involve company leadership in strategic opportunities. The role requires enterprise security software sales experience, AI and machine learning fluency, startup experience, and proximity to New York City or northern New Jersey.

Own a new enterprise sales territory, build pipeline from scratch, and close complex security software deals through long consultative sales cycles. The role involves prospecting large organizations, engaging senior security executives and technical users, tailoring solutions, coordinating technical demos with sales engineers, and re-engaging prospects over time. Candidates need at least five years of enterprise sales experience, a record of closing security software deals with large buyers, startup experience launching emerging offerings, and credible knowledge of AI and machine learning.

Product Counsel will advise product, engineering, data science, marketing, compliance, and sales teams throughout the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include counseling on regulatory compliance, privacy, intellectual property, consumer protection, AI and machine learning, data rights, platform architecture, APIs, identity and account security, and marketing. The role translates legal requirements into technical guidance, supports AI governance, monitors evolving laws, and develops scalable legal processes for a fast-paced technology company.

Leads DISCO’s machine learning research strategy, directs advanced algorithm and methodology development, oversees large-scale research programs, and manages research teams. Collaborates with industry partners and cross-functional stakeholders to apply machine learning to real-world challenges. Develops long-term research plans, mentors researchers, optimizes research processes, and contributes to the broader research community through publications, presentations, and industry engagement.