Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Provides analytics-driven strategic advice for mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions. Responsibilities include analyzing contract data, developing algorithms and predictive models, integrating data sources, building pipelines, creating dashboards, validating data integrity and security, and identifying risks and compliance indicators. The role also involves client collaboration, mentoring junior staff, and delivering data-driven insights using Python and machine learning.

Leads teams designing and deploying AI-driven enterprise and cloud security solutions. Responsibilities include developing machine learning systems, integrating data infrastructure and pipelines, performing advanced modeling and analysis, and building AI applications with Python, Java, and C++. The role involves client engagement, strategic problem-solving, stakeholder validation, coaching, process innovation, and operational excellence while addressing complex cybersecurity and privacy challenges.

Analyzes workforce and healthcare data to identify trends, build predictive and machine learning models, and deliver actionable recommendations. Uses Python, Alteryx, and Power BI for analytics, visualization, and reporting. The role supports workforce strategy, employee engagement, organizational effectiveness, talent management, and healthcare cost insights. Responsibilities also include client collaboration, relationship management, team guidance, and applying risk adjustment and medical economics concepts to inform strategic decisions.

Leverage advanced analytics, data manipulation, visualization, statistical modeling, predictive analytics, and machine learning to generate client insights and recommendations. Apply Adobe Experience Cloud solutions to support business transformation and strategic decision-making. Build client relationships, manage and inspire teams, navigate complex engagements, uphold professional standards, and deliver quality outcomes while developing technical and consulting expertise.

Leads data analysis and advanced analytics workstreams for clients, using statistical modeling, machine learning, data visualization, and Adobe Experience Cloud technologies to improve operations and strategic decision-making. Manages project planning, budgeting, execution, and completion while mentoring teams, maintaining data integrity and security, building Tableau and Power BI dashboards, identifying business opportunities, and integrating innovative analytics practices.

Lead AI engineering teams to design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI solutions. Manage client relationships, plan and deliver projects, mentor staff, drive adoption of cloud-native microservices, CI/CD, vector databases and orchestration tools, and ensure high standards of quality, innovation, and compliance.

Leads internal audit and SOX engagements, manages client relationships, develops audit methodologies, evaluates financial statements and internal controls, conducts risk assessments, and oversees audit reporting. The role includes project ownership, budgeting, stakeholder management, team leadership, mentoring, process improvement, and use of AI and risk technology to enhance audit effectiveness and address compliance and governance risks.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain enterprise software and AI-powered solutions. Build machine learning pipelines, intelligent automations, RESTful APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and cloud-based applications. Collaborate with architects, data scientists, and product managers; conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, troubleshoot production issues, and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, system performance, and responsible AI practices.

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.

Lead GitLab’s company-wide strategy for autonomous, agentic software development workflows. Identify and validate AI opportunities across the SDLC, build prototypes and reference architectures, establish evaluation frameworks and safety controls, and drive internal adoption. Partner across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, and Data and ML teams to scale reliable, observable, compliant agentic capabilities into customer-facing products. Mentor senior technical leaders and represent GitLab externally on AI-assisted development and productivity measurement.

Leads technical customer engagements for strategic enterprise accounts, combining solution engineering, software implementation, consulting, and sales support. Responsibilities include discovering requirements, designing and documenting SailPoint solutions, conducting foundational implementations and proof-of-value engagements, educating customers on architecture and best practices, and developing AI-enabled demonstrations and agentic solutions. The role collaborates across sales, product, professional services, partners, and customer success, and may require up to 15% travel.

Build and operate production machine learning systems for Safety AI, including low-latency APIs, data pipelines, model serving, evaluation, monitoring, and rollout infrastructure. Process large-scale camera and telematics data, optimize cloud and edge-to-cloud execution, track model performance and drift, and partner with applied scientists, firmware engineers, platform teams, and product managers to deliver reliable safety features.

Own the strategic vision and roadmap for Coursera’s AI-driven search experience. Lead conversational search, personalization, semantic and multilingual search, ranking, and discovery improvements. Partner with engineering, design, research, data science, ML, marketing, and partnerships teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities. Use experimentation, market analysis, KPIs, and customer insights to improve conversion, merchandising, learner experience, and revenue.

Engineer AI-powered threat detections, automated response playbooks, and continuous adversary emulation. Apply machine learning and LLMs to security operations, conduct threat hunting and AI red teaming, map coverage to MITRE ATT&CK, and develop detection-as-code through CI/CD. Build production-grade Python integrations, measurable containment capabilities, and safe autonomous defenses with guardrails. Mentor security professionals and collaborate across threat response, cyber defense engineering, and platform teams.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

Lead technical direction for maritime autonomy capabilities across multiple programs. Develop motion planning, localization, tracking, safe maritime behaviors, COLREGS-compliant operations, and heterogeneous multi-agent collaboration for USVs, UUVs, and UAVs. Build and integrate high-performance, rigorously tested software; support deployment, vehicle testing, demonstrations, and mission-log analysis. Mentor engineers, guide architecture and roadmaps, research new algorithms, and collaborate across perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and operational test teams. Travel is typically about 25%.

Develop and deploy autonomy software for unmanned surface, underwater, and aerial vehicles in maritime missions. Responsibilities include motion planning, localization and tracking, safety assurance, COLREGS adherence, multi-agent coordination, distributed optimization, rigorous software testing, platform integration, deployment support, mission-log analysis, and autonomy R&D. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration, customer and demonstration support, roadmap development, and mentoring junior engineers. Travel is typically approximately 25% annually.

Leads Toast’s AI and analytics strategy for Enterprise Care. Owns the roadmap, evaluates and deploys AI-assisted support tools, develops operational intelligence products, and partners with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to move pilots into production. Establishes complexity and workload intelligence, assesses AI readiness, translates AI performance into measurable operational outcomes, and builds organizational AI literacy. The role requires extensive enterprise support or service-delivery leadership, hands-on production AI experience, operational data fluency, and the ability to drive trusted adoption among agents and executives.

Build and productionize traditional machine learning models, owning feature engineering, validation, deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining. Develop LLM-powered agentic tools, dashboards, self-serve analytics products, and automated insight pipelines. Partner with engineering and business stakeholders, write production-grade Python and SQL, drive adoption, improve data quality, and establish responsible AI workflows for a regulated industry.

Own and improve Headway’s privacy program across HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, state privacy laws, individual rights, incidents, vendor governance, and AI use. Maintain controls, data maps, metrics, training, and operational workflows. Conduct product, vendor, and AI privacy assessments; manage rights requests and incident investigations; coordinate notifications and regulatory submissions; and translate complex requirements into practical guidance for cross-functional teams.

Develop autonomy evaluation metrics, statistical and machine-learning analyses, dashboards, and pipelines for simulation and on-road autonomous vehicle testing. Analyze perception, prediction, and planning performance; identify anomalous behavior and critical scenarios; apply VLMs and LLMs where appropriate; and support release gating and safety decisions. The role requires production Python, C++ debugging, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and rigorous software engineering practices.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Serves as the technical bridge between customers, Sales, and technology teams. Leads technical discovery, solution architecture, demonstrations, workshops, proofs of concept, and evaluations using HERE data, APIs, mapping, routing, spatial analytics, cloud, AI, and enterprise integration. Partners with Sales to qualify opportunities, reduce technical risk, develop proposals and reusable presales assets, and guide customers toward location-intelligence solutions.

Lead simulation-driven testing and automation for autonomy software: develop automated regression/integration/system tests, build and maintain simulation-based test frameworks and tools (SIL/HIL/VIL), diagnose issues with developers, scale simulation infrastructure, create test plans, and integrate test coverage into CI/CD pipelines using Python.

Lead federal government engagement and lobbying strategy, deepen relationships with Congress and the Administration, track legislative and regulatory issues (financial regulation, consumer protection, digital assets, AI/privacy), and coordinate cross-functional policy responses to advance Block's objectives.