Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Tucson, AZ

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Azure Storage geo-replication, data protection, failover orchestration, and business continuity. Drive cross-team delivery, operational excellence, telemetry, automation, AI-assisted operations, and represent the team in executive and customer engagements.

Own customer experience product strategy and roadmaps across web and mobile commerce. Lead experimentation, data analysis, usability testing, customer research, and post-purchase experience improvements. Partner with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Merchandising, AI, and Analytics teams to deliver features that improve engagement, conversion, trust, and customer lifetime value. Communicate product vision and priorities to executives while balancing short-term delivery with long-term strategy.

Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of an AI-driven B2B SaaS platform for government contracting. Translate RFP and customer needs into prioritized product enhancements, collaborate with AI research and cross-functional teams, apply agile methodologies using Jira, and drive successful product launches and adoption.

Executes systems engineering across R&D platforms, hybrid cloud, SaaS, HPC, containers, integrations, data pipelines, observability, and AI architectures. Coordinates Enterprise IT, vendors, cybersecurity, compliance, and scientific stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, validated, and supportable solutions. Develops technical documentation, deployment plans, runbooks, monitoring, lifecycle artifacts, risk logs, and operational handoffs. Implements RAG, vector database, AI gateway, agentic workflow, and multimodal integration patterns while supporting cloud migration, change management, governance, and technical issue resolution.

Leads application engineering teams delivering cloud-native, AI-enabled solutions on Microsoft Azure for Medicare and Medicaid claims-processing operations. Oversees architecture, software development, quality automation, integrations, support, governance, security, vendor relationships, and large-scale implementations. Develops Azure applications as needed, mentors staff, manages cross-functional initiatives, ensures HIPAA compliance, and partners with business and executive stakeholders to improve healthcare payer outcomes.

Design, build, evaluate, and deploy production AI and ML solutions, including generative AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows. Develop reliable software, APIs, integrations, evaluations, and observability capabilities while partnering with architecture, platform, data, cybersecurity, and business teams. Apply AI engineering practices across enterprise, cloud, hybrid, and regulated environments.

Develops, validates, optimizes, and deploys EO/IR image-processing algorithms for space-based sensor payloads. Responsibilities include computer vision, object detection and tracking, image simulation, machine learning data generation, real-time implementation, performance analysis, troubleshooting deployed systems, and technical communication with government customers. Collaborates with software, firmware, optical design, and modeling teams while supporting program milestones and occasional travel.

Design and lead the technical strategy for search across Vannevar’s products. Build and improve full-text, vector, and LLM-powered retrieval systems, optimizing latency, relevance, index quality, freshness, and performance. Collaborate with ML, product, design, and mission strategy teams to translate user needs into search innovations. Apply expertise in information retrieval, NLP, machine learning, indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, vector search, and evaluation frameworks.

Build and evaluate machine learning models and features for fraud detection across account opening, account takeover, and identity risk. Analyze complex datasets to identify fraud patterns, develop hypotheses, validate models, and measure technical and business performance. Write tested Python code, support production deployment and monitoring, communicate findings, and follow standards for privacy, explainability, validation, documentation, and governance.

Owns P&L performance, profitability, growth, and digital transformation for Small and Lower Mid-Market commercial insurance portfolios. Leads pricing, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, analytics, data visualization, predictive modeling, and machine learning initiatives. Partners with actuarial, product, engineering, technology, and distribution teams to implement process improvements and underwriting actions across digital channels and geographies. Communicates insights to stakeholders and senior leadership while leading cross-functional teams in an Agile operating model.

Designs, develops, tests, implements, maintains, and supports custom software applications across internet security, content delivery, APIs, machine learning, and cloud computing. The role improves platform functionality, develops new capabilities, automates product operations, contributes to architecture and software design, and expands automated unit, functional, integration, and end-to-end testing.

Serve as the persistent technical partner for strategic and premium customers, diagnosing workflows, labeling, configurations, model behavior, and technical health. Build success plans with Customer Success Managers, guide implementations and model releases, conduct technical health reviews, coordinate fraud incident responses, and communicate technical findings to business and engineering stakeholders. Identify recurring customer patterns and provide feedback to Product and Engineering while supporting account retention and growth.

Own technical relationships with insurance carrier accounts by leading discovery, solution design, integrations, deployment support, defect management, QA, documentation, API and payload validation, SQL-based account monitoring, and incident management. The role partners with client engagement and engineering teams to ensure deployments meet carrier requirements and progressively assumes greater ownership of technical account relationships.

Manages strategic partner accounts to expand market footprint, grow revenue and unit sales, and improve partner health. Responsibilities include partner enablement, sales strategy, forecasting, performance analysis, product training, business reviews, co-marketing, deployment planning, and cross-functional collaboration. The role maintains Salesforce records, presents performance reports, supports RFPs, attends trade events, mentors teammates, and travels up to 25% across North America.

Lead and grow a team of Conversation Designers to build and scale conversational AI experiences. Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and ML teams to drive strategy, tooling, evaluation, and quality practices. Recruit and remove roadblocks, own strategic initiatives, and remain hands-on in designing, testing, and improving AI-driven conversational products.

Leads strategy, roadmap, execution, commercialization, and customer outcomes for a major enterprise software product area. Conducts market and customer discovery, prioritizes opportunities, partners with engineering and design, establishes outcome-based metrics, and supports sales enablement. Builds and coaches the product management team, manages executive and customer relationships, and helps transition the company from services-led to product-led operations. The role emphasizes legal technology, eDiscovery, AI-enabled workflows, enterprise data, and regulated-industry requirements.

Develop machine learning, AI, statistical, and predictive models using Snowflake and other data sources. Perform data extraction, cleansing, feature engineering, experimentation, visualization, and quality analysis. Partner with business and technical teams to deliver data products, conversational analytics, and actionable recommendations. Lead discovery sessions, communicate insights to nontechnical audiences, mentor analysts, and support enterprise data science projects.

Own technical delivery and account health for insurer software deployments. Responsibilities include discovery, solution design, integrations, API and payload review, QA testing, defect documentation, workflow mapping, SQL-based production monitoring, incident management, and technical communication with carrier accounts and engineering teams.

Lead hands-on engineering for an AI-powered email application across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Design reliable AI workflows involving orchestration, state, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. Define APIs and abstractions, make architecture and scalability decisions, improve observability and reliability, and lead a small team of senior engineers through technical reviews, mentorship, and production delivery.

Lead Runpod’s Americas sales organization and revenue number across new business, expansion, and renewals. Manage and coach Account Executives and Account Managers, oversee forecasting and pipeline, lead complex enterprise deals and contract negotiations, build regional go-to-market strategy and sales playbooks, and convert product-led demand into revenue. Partner with Marketing, Product, Legal, and Finance while improving sales efficiency through AI and developing a remote-first team.

Designs, builds, scales, and operates distributed CI/CD services supporting millions of builds, tests, and releases. Develops code for Azure-based infrastructure spanning virtual machines, containers, and custom lab environments. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, architecture and design documentation, estimation, debugging, optimization, operational playbooks, on-call incident response, monitoring, reliability improvements, and mentoring engineers.

Serves as a permitting and plan review domain expert for engineering, product, design, data, and go-to-market teams. Reviews permit applications, plan sets, submittals, and AI outputs; interprets building codes; identifies missing or noncompliant information; defines approval and revision criteria; labels examples for ML systems; synthesizes jurisdictional requirements; and develops rubrics, checklists, documentation, and benchmarks. Requires approximately 5+ years of hands-on permitting or plan review experience and fluency in applicable building codes.

Leads the Product Acquisition engineering team and drives technology strategy, architecture, software delivery, DevOps maturity, platform adoption, vendor management, and operational excellence. Partners with product managers on roadmaps and business outcomes, ensures engineering standards and production support, and coaches, recruits, and develops engineers and consultants. Requires strong software development, product operating model, project management, stakeholder communication, and technical leadership experience.

Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, business case, licensing, lifecycle policy, deployment models, and go-to-market strategy for GridBeats Device Management. Lead customer discovery, product requirements, release planning, cross-functional delivery, sales enablement, and KPI tracking. Partner with utilities, engineering, commercial, marketing, and global sales teams to deliver secure device-management software for grid operators and industrial customers.

Conduct research on frontier AI systems and develop datasets, experiments, prototypes, tooling, evaluation frameworks, and reinforcement learning environments. Investigate synthetic and agentic data generation, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation. Collaborate with research, engineering, product, and operations teams to translate findings into scalable AI applications, while contributing to technical publications, open-source work, mentorship, and the broader AI research community.