Top Entry Level Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Analyze malware, binary files, customer detection tickets, and machine learning detections to improve detection efficacy and reduce false positives. Review product detections, assess binary legitimacy, address internal detection questions, and provide insights to data science teams. The role collaborates with technical account managers, incident response teams, data scientists, and malware researchers. Required capabilities include malware analysis, reverse engineering, Python scripting, binary fundamentals, threat assessment, research methods, operating systems, and AI-assisted workflow improvement.

Forward Deployed Engineers deploy Palantir Foundry software, build production-grade applications and data pipelines, synthesize structured and unstructured data, and develop actionable workflows for federal clients. They collaborate with engineers, program managers, domain experts, and client teams to define requirements, rapidly prototype solutions, iterate, and deliver measurable operational impact. The role requires programming proficiency, machine learning knowledge, independent ownership, client engagement, travel, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for federal security clearance.

Design, develop, secure, modernize, and support scalable omnichannel APIs for customer-facing web, mobile, contact center, partner, and enterprise applications. Improve API security, resiliency, performance, observability, testing, and reliability. Collaborate with architecture, security, cloud, product, operations, and engineering teams; lead technical delivery, mentor engineers, develop reusable patterns, and provide Tier 3 production support. Apply AI-assisted engineering practices and contribute to API lifecycle management and continuous improvement.

Lead Cure from company formation through product-market validation and seed financing. Define the market wedge, secure enterprise design partners, shape an AI-native recovery product, establish data and evaluation loops, recruit the founding team, build the company narrative, and lead fundraising. The role requires enterprise AI judgment, commercial credibility, consumer-finance and regulatory understanding, and founder-level ability to create a new category.

Founding CTO will architect and build Cure’s AI-native customer engagement and recovery platform. Responsibilities include developing conversational agents, decisioning and personalization systems, evaluation and feedback loops, enterprise integrations, and secure, explainable infrastructure. The CTO will work with customers, lead product and engineering execution, recruit early technical talent, and establish the organization needed to scale a reliable platform for regulated industries.

Write and adapt technical and non-technical content across social media, blogs, founder communications, and company announcements. Translate research papers and technical findings into accessible writing, maintain distinct brand and founder voices, verify claims, collaborate with stakeholders, repurpose content across channels, and independently manage deadlines for a part-time contract.

Lead and coach the engineering team building AutoReview, an AI-powered mechanical design review product. Partner with Product on roadmap planning, feasibility, estimation, prioritization, and timelines. Maintain technical context to identify risks and dependencies, guide initiatives involving DFM checks, assembly analysis, and bulk workflows, and collaborate with applied ML teams. Establish clear ownership, support engineer autonomy, and help the team navigate evolving customer needs and AI technologies.

Own data quality across systems by designing validation rules, reconciliation processes, profiling workflows, and quality controls. Investigate discrepancies to identify root causes, apply statistical methods to detect anomalies, evaluate machine learning model outputs, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Partner with engineering, BI, and business teams to establish data quality standards, metrics, controls, and reporting practices.

Designs and operates production data infrastructure, ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, containerized AWS services, and graph-based systems. Responsibilities include relational, document, and graph database architecture; data quality and lineage; CI/CD automation; and integration of blockchain, financial, and investigative data. Partners with R&D, data scientists, and investigations teams to deliver production software for federal and commercial clients.

Build and maintain data pipelines using Python, SQL, Spark, and cloud tools; apply AI and machine learning for predictive analytics and automation; develop Agentic AI systems; visualize insights with Tableau, Power BI, and dashboards; and collaborate with technical and non-technical teams to integrate AI into federal operational workflows.

Supports federal client projects through technology analysis, data analytics, software engineering, AI experimentation, research, testing, documentation, solution design, and digital transformation initiatives. Collaborates with project teams to translate mission objectives into technology-driven strategies and recommendations. The role provides mentorship, workshops, training, and hands-on exposure to AI, cloud-native engineering, full-stack development, and emerging technology tools.

Analyze large datasets, identify meaningful patterns, develop machine learning models, and deliver actionable insights for business decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs, communicate findings clearly to stakeholders, and stay current with advances in data science and AI technologies.

Build and maintain mission-critical wealth management systems for SMB clients. Design data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data models, warehouses, analytics, and reporting solutions using AWS, Snowflake, Mage AI, and other big data tools. Collaborate with data scientists and analysts on predictive models, statistical analyses, and machine learning algorithms. Develop software with Next.js and Python while working closely with the team and clients on financial-domain challenges.

Design and implement enterprise AI architectures spanning GenAI, machine learning, RAG, agentic workflows, data pipelines, APIs, and production deployments. Build Python prototypes and AI services, define governance and evaluation frameworks, integrate models with enterprise platforms, and guide engineering teams through implementation. The role requires hands-on expertise with LLM applications, orchestration frameworks, model lifecycle management, monitoring, security, and scalable production AI systems, preferably in financial services.

Build and deploy AI applications, agents, intelligent workflows, document-processing solutions, predictive analytics, and automation. The role spans AI use-case assessment, solution design, prototyping, evaluation, testing, production deployment, monitoring, governance, and responsible-AI controls. The engineer will integrate AI with enterprise systems, APIs, workflows, and data platforms while partnering with engineering, cybersecurity, governance, and mission teams in a federal environment.

Drives growth by identifying strategic partnerships with enterprise AI and machine learning companies. Develops business development strategies, builds relationships with senior decision-makers, negotiates complex deals, and collaborates with internal teams to implement partnerships. Requires strong AI/ML industry knowledge, executive communication skills, strategic thinking, and adaptability in a fast-paced startup environment.

Conduct hands-on research with frontier AI labs to evaluate model behavior, identify failure modes, and design interventions that improve reliability. Responsibilities include designing evaluations, building data pipelines and fine-tuning workflows, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and addressing challenges involving long-context reasoning, tool use, and real-time feedback loops.

Manages strategic client accounts for an AI data platform, serving as the primary customer contact and trusted advisor. Oversees data projects, SLAs, quality, and deliverables while coordinating engineering, operations, and project teams. Builds strong client relationships, addresses concerns, translates AI and NLP requirements into actionable plans, and ensures solutions meet customer goals.

Lead customer-centric product development and strategic initiatives for an AI platform. Responsibilities include understanding customer pain points, overseeing product and operations execution, managing accounts, building scalable systems and processes, coordinating with engineering, analyzing performance data, and driving product insights through market and competitive research.

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.

Designs, deploys, and optimizes GenAI data solutions for enterprise clients. Responsibilities include translating client needs into scalable workflows, creating annotation guidelines, delivering high-quality datasets, building validation and automation pipelines, and ensuring data accuracy, reliability, observability, and readiness for model development.

Run Discovered Labs’ founder-led content operation across LinkedIn and YouTube, from topic selection and editorial development through publication and performance analysis. Responsibilities include shaping founder content, coordinating external partners, repurposing long-form material, improving AI-supported content systems, and using engagement and pipeline data to guide editorial decisions. The role requires strong editorial judgment, hands-on execution, social content expertise, and the ability to work autonomously in an AI-forward, remote environment.

Annotate and label data accurately according to project guidelines, conduct quality checks, provide feedback on annotation tools and processes, collaborate with project teams, maintain efficiency, and identify issues for resolution. The role requires strong attention to detail, critical thinking, adaptability, communication skills, and comfort with repetitive computer-based work.

Review, label, and QA datasets for AI/ML training; maintain trackers, databases, and dashboards; follow annotation guidelines and SOPs; prepare and clean data; document processes; collaborate to resolve data queries while ensuring confidentiality and timely delivery.

Annotates, labels, categorizes, validates, and quality-checks structured and unstructured data for AI model training. Maintains dataset accuracy, consistency, documentation, and version control while collaborating with AI engineers, data scientists, and quality teams. The role also supports annotation workflow management, guideline development, calibration exercises, error identification, and continuous process improvement.