Top Machine Learning Jobs in Tucson, AZ

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.

Owns end-to-end development of datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and evaluations for coding agents and software engineering models. Leads engineers, researchers, QA professionals, and data creators; establishes quality processes, pipelines, validation, and review workflows. Collaborates directly with frontier AI labs, fine-tunes models, builds benchmarks, develops automation and internal tools, and supports customer-facing enablement. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, engineering management, operational execution, research, and industry thought leadership.

Leads Magellan Health’s enterprise data and analytics strategy, modernization, engineering, governance, business intelligence, and AI/ML enablement. Oversees data platforms, pipelines, quality, lineage, compliance, and reporting while partnering with clinical, operational, and financial stakeholders. Builds and develops a 30+ person organization, manages a $3M–$5M budget, oversees vendors, and presents investment cases to executive leadership. Drives transformation from a low-maturity environment to a governed, insight-driven enterprise data platform.

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.

Leads an applied machine learning team and owns fraud detection and identity model strategy, development, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Partners with Product, Engineering, Risk, and senior leadership to set priorities and deliver business impact. Provides technical mentorship, reviews code, guides modeling and architecture decisions, researches fraud patterns, develops ML capabilities, and shapes responsible AI use under data governance and security constraints.

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.

Participants are needed for an AI technology research study, offering compensation up to $600 for ~1.5-2 hours of participation over one week, requiring skills in tech-related roles.

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.

Clean, standardize, enrich, and import product data into the PIM while maintaining data integrity and governance standards. Oversee bulk ingestion processes, leverage AI and automation, support data model improvements, resolve product listing issues, and contribute to data hygiene and workflow modernization. The role also involves collaborating with client-facing teams, documenting processes, proofreading product data, communicating progress, and adapting to changing priorities.

Own discovery, definition, and delivery of marketplace directory features for Avetta’s B2B SaaS platform. Serve as the customer advocate, conduct research and usability testing, analyze product metrics, prioritize problems, define KPIs, and collaborate with engineering, UX, marketing, and customer success. The role focuses on scalable marketplace and platform products involving search, profiles, matching, recommendations, onboarding, monetization, trusted data, and network effects.

Own and modernize Apartment List’s B2C lifecycle marketing program across email, push, and SMS. Build segmentation, personalization, partnerships, cross-sell, forecasting, experimentation, and measurement systems. Lead analytics, attribution, deliverability, and revenue optimization while remaining hands-on with journeys, templates, dynamic content, audience logic, SQL, and troubleshooting. Manage a two-person team, partner cross-functionally on roadmap priorities, and oversee the Iterable relationship.

Drive new-account acquisition and cloud migrations for AI and infrastructure solutions. Generate pipeline through global outbound prospecting, execute multichannel outreach, manage the full enterprise sales cycle, and close large cloud, infrastructure, and data center deals. The role requires deep knowledge of AI computing, cloud infrastructure, power capacity, cooling systems, financial modeling, and B2B enterprise net-new cloud sales. Candidates work from Akamai’s San Francisco office and collaborate across time zones.

Own technical product marketing for Bloomreach’s APIs, integrations, and agentic AI platform. Translate platform capabilities into positioning, use cases, partner launch strategies, customer storylines, sales enablement, and go-to-market materials. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Solutions Engineering, partners, sales, and technical buyers. Define launch metrics, coordinate milestones, communicate product value, and evaluate post-launch results.

Design and deploy machine learning models for financial document processing, optimize large language models, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and guide junior peers in a fast-paced environment.

The Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist will lead research initiatives in computer vision and multimodal understanding, develop novel models, and translate research into practical applications while mentoring team members.

Own the strategy, requirements, evaluation, and execution of AI agent products and systems. Partner closely with ML, backend, and mobile engineers to make trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, reliability, and user experience. Define evaluation frameworks, drive prioritization, and ensure AI features are understandable, predictable, safe, and trusted. Translate model capabilities and feedback into product decisions and reliable real-world workflows.

Own the strategy, requirements, evaluation, and reliability of AI agent products. Partner closely with ML, backend, and mobile engineers to make trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, reliability, and user experience. Define offline and online evaluation frameworks, drive product execution, and ensure AI features are correct, predictable, safe, and trusted. Translate model capabilities and feedback into product decisions, roadmaps, and rapid iteration.

Lead the Data Sources product roadmap for document parsing, fraud detection, and bank aggregation. Drive metrics (parse accuracy, fraud catch rate, connection success, SLAs), write specs, engage clients, mentor PMs/engineers, and represent the platform externally. Prioritize document types, extraction models, reliability, and scalability to improve conversion, client satisfaction, and operational efficiency across mortgage, tenant screening, and government use cases.

Lead enterprise AI and transformation engagements—own customer relationships, scope buildable solutions with FDE, drive commercial outcomes and expansion, advise C-suite on AI strategy, and create repeatable, scalable offerings to evolve Tive into an AI-powered intelligence platform.

Build and operate scalable data infrastructure and pipelines for video, imagery, telemetry, sensor, log, and mission data. Create searchable data lakes, curated and versioned ML datasets, labeling workflows, quality checks, lineage, monitoring, and reproducible dataset-generation processes. Partner with autonomy, perception, software, simulation, and field teams to support model training, evaluation, debugging, replay, and deployment workflows.

Build and operate production machine learning training systems on Amazon SageMaker using AWS Trainium. The role focuses on optimizing PyTorch code for Trainium hardware, understanding NeuronCore compilation, diagnosing device-level issues, tuning distributed training for cost and throughput, and delivering production pipelines. The engineer will collaborate directly with client and internal teams in a forward-deployed engineering environment.

Lead end-to-end ML systems for identity verification, including document authenticity, face match, liveness and deepfake detection. Build GNN-based identity graphs, behavioral/device-intelligence models, vendor benchmarking/evaluation, and production enforcement. Mentor engineers and align ML architecture with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Security stakeholders.

Build and deploy production-grade LLM applications, AI agents, models, and scalable RAG pipelines for investment and business workflows. Architect secure MCP integrations with enterprise systems, establish MLOps and LLMOps practices, optimize model performance and latency, and develop evaluation, monitoring, governance, and rollback processes. Collaborate with data engineering and platform teams to provide secure, governed access to organizational data.

As a Research/ML Engineer, you will translate cutting-edge AI research into product solutions, develop safety and reliability systems, and collaborate with technical teams.