Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Sacramento, CA

Lead partner marketing with consulting and systems integrators to drive joint GTM plans, co-marketing programs, repeatable partner collateral, customer stories, partner communications, and measurable pipeline growth.

Lead a team of safety engineers to define and execute AV safety strategy across development, simulation, testing, and deployment. Apply UL4600/ISO standards, develop safety cases, set safety metrics (SPI), manage safety plans and artifacts, train engineers, and coordinate with partners and stakeholders to validate ML models and ADS integration for safe public-road operation.

Manage privacy-by-design initiatives, including privacy impact assessments and machine learning privacy reviews. Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Legal, and Security teams to document data flows, identify risks, define safeguards, and complete privacy approvals. Track multiple workstreams, manage documentation, monitor compliance and operational risks, report to stakeholders, and coordinate privacy incident triage. The role requires strong knowledge of global data protection laws, program management, technical communication, and cross-functional influence.

Leads technical strategy and product adoption for major Retail and CPG enterprise accounts as Databricks’ primary technical voice. Partners with account executives, guides customers through data and AI transformations, builds technical champions, aligns solutions to business strategies, and mentors team members. Requires extensive pre-sales, big data, cloud, data science, programming, and production data systems experience.

Designs and deploys AI/ML solutions from prototype through production for government clients. Responsibilities include generative AI using LLMs and RAG, intelligent classification, agentic frameworks, AI coding tools, legacy-system integration, and automated reporting. The role also establishes AI/ML roadmaps, scales adoption, communicates technical concepts to stakeholders, and mentors data scientists.

Lead product marketing for PolyAI's voice assistant products: define messaging and positioning, drive go-to-market strategy and enablement, build competitive intelligence, develop personas and sales collateral, run customer and market research, support revenue enablement, scale and lead the product marketing team, and act as an external spokesperson.

Sell ExtraHops network security analytics to U.S. Federal/Department of War customers by developing territory accounts, engaging senior federal decision-makers, driving new business and renewals, coordinating with resellers and engineers, delivering tailored demos, and executing strategic account plans to meet revenue targets.

Identify and validate AI opportunities across IT operations and cybersecurity, including service management, threat detection, infrastructure monitoring, identity access, endpoint protection, and vulnerability management. Translate operational challenges into structured use cases, assess business value and risk, document data and integration requirements, promote responsible AI, facilitate stakeholder workshops, build internal champions, and monitor emerging AI capabilities while supporting security compliance and change management.

This role leads the ML Acceleration team, focusing on enhancing ML model training efficiency and team management, while driving technical strategy and collaboration.

Owns CareSource’s EDI platform vision, roadmap, backlog, and delivery. Translates healthcare, regulatory, and integration requirements into technical specifications; partners with engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps, trading partners, and business teams; coordinates releases and Agile delivery; monitors transaction performance, defects, SLAs, and platform telemetry; drives data quality, observability, automation, compliance, documentation, and continuous improvement across EDI capabilities.

Build and lead Nebius’s federal affairs function in Washington, D.C. Develop policy strategy across AI regulation, trade, energy, infrastructure, and national security; establish bipartisan relationships with Congress and executive agencies; represent the company in federal initiatives and coalitions; assess regulatory risks; coordinate with legal, communications, and infrastructure teams; manage outside lobbying partners; and hire staff as the function scales.

Lead enterprise AI security architecture, strategy, governance, and secure-by-design implementation across cloud, hybrid infrastructure, software, and AI/ML environments. Design security patterns for LLM hosting, agentic systems, vector databases, and inference endpoints; translate regulatory requirements into technical standards; review complex architectures; implement AI security guardrails and policy enforcement; advise engineering and product teams; and mentor teams while influencing senior stakeholders.

Lead research, architecture, and production deployment of large-scale algorithms for budget pacing, bid optimization, and marketplace balancing in Yahoo’s DSP. Apply control theory, optimization, and machine learning to real-time systems, while establishing AI-augmented research and engineering workflows. Own multi-quarter initiatives, define evaluation frameworks, guide technical strategy, collaborate with product and engineering leadership, mentor scientists and engineers, and communicate complex research and architectural decisions to executives.

Lead the definition and evolution of cybersecurity technology platform and service offerings for cyber defenders and CISOs. Drive requirements through software and service lifecycles, deliver differentiated offerings to market, and guide cross-functional teams toward consistent, high-quality execution. The role requires deep expertise in at least two cybersecurity domains, managed services experience, strong communication skills, executive presentation ability, and awareness of AI’s impact on cyber defense.

Lead the vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, delivery, adoption, and lifecycle management of an enterprise AI platform. Manage three direct reports and collaborate across technology, cybersecurity, risk, legal, compliance, data, and analytics. Ensure secure, scalable, governed, and responsible AI capabilities while translating business and technical priorities into measurable product outcomes. Drive stakeholder alignment, platform adoption, continuous improvement, executive communication, and team development in a highly regulated environment.

Manage paid social campaigns and full-funnel strategies across Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat, and other paid channels. Oversee client accounts, analyze performance, identify growth opportunities, build client relationships, and collaborate with SEO, creative, and analytics teams. Contribute to thought leadership, coach associates, maintain quality standards, and explore automation, AI, and LLM search visibility initiatives.

Provides strategic and technical leadership for Lilly’s eDiscovery program across the full EDRM lifecycle. Manages legal hold systems, data preservation and collection, processing, review, production, vendor relationships, workflows, and chain-of-custody requirements. Evaluates AI, machine learning, TAR/CAL, predictive coding, and analytics solutions while ensuring defensible legal processes. Partners with Legal, Privacy, Records Management, IT, Compliance, Cybersecurity, outside counsel, and business stakeholders, and mentors team members.

Leads and manages an applied machine learning team developing fraud detection and identity verification models. Responsibilities include people management, coaching, code review, production ML systems, model lifecycle ownership, experimentation, deployment, monitoring, fraud research, cross-functional prioritization, and communicating results. The role remains hands-on while partnering with Product, Engineering, Risk, and leadership to drive measurable business impact and shape future product strategy using machine learning and AI.

Lead the strategy, design, deployment, and scale-up of AI-powered health products across the Global South. Own product roadmaps, execution, government-system integration, stakeholder adoption, partnerships, grant development, and portfolio expansion. Collaborate with engineering, machine learning, program, and domain teams to deliver sustainable, measurable public-health impact.

Build and deploy agentic and generative AI systems that automate risk and compliance investigations. Own full-stack ML systems, including data integrations, prompt tuning, orchestration, evaluation, productionization, monitoring, and transformer-based modeling across transaction, graph, text, and profile data. Collaborate with product, engineering, platform, and operations teams while leading strategic roadmaps and delivering scalable production systems.

Build and deploy agentic and generative AI copilot and autopilot systems for risk and compliance automation. Own end-to-end ML systems, including data integrations, prompt tuning, orchestration, evaluation, productionization, monitoring, and transformer-based model development. Collaborate with product, engineering, platform, and operations teams to improve fraud detection and analyst productivity. Drive strategic roadmaps and cross-functional programs with significant business impact.

Lead post-sales success for enterprise SaaS customers, drive adoption, monitor account health and model performance, manage escalations, run QBRs, partner cross-functionally to ensure renewals and expansions, and deliver measurable business outcomes while advising on identity verification and fraud detection solutions.

Performs advanced physical and remote insurance premium audits for business clients. Reviews business records, interviews owners and managers, investigates exposures, documents findings, prepares written audit reports, schedules assignments, communicates results, and submits completed work for quality review. The auditor must manage deadlines independently, correct returned audits, maintain accurate records, and use Microsoft Office applications. This remote role requires reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license, strong analytical and communication skills, and at least five years of premium insurance auditing experience.

Leads the company’s adoption of AI, analytics, automation, and business intelligence. Builds AI-powered workflows, Excel solutions, natural-language data interfaces, dashboards, forecasts, predictive analytics, and automated reporting using Snowflake, SQL, Tableau, and related tools. Partners across business functions to identify opportunities, improve data quality, automate repetitive processes, and deliver scalable decision-support solutions. Establishes responsible AI practices and advances an AI-first analytics culture.

Lead data engineering and machine learning initiatives by designing, architecting, developing, and supporting GCP data pipelines. Create information architecture documentation, estimate and plan technical work, collaborate with project teams and business analysts, and translate requirements into technical designs. Develop Python-based ELT pipelines, optimize BigQuery SQL, support CI/CD, and provide technical leadership to projects and teams.