Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Own the end-to-end product direction and quality of an AI email application. Define AI and system requirements, translate model capabilities into product decisions, balance quality, cost, latency, reliability, safety, and user experience, and partner with ML, backend, and client engineers. Establish evaluation frameworks, quality standards, feedback loops, and failure recovery strategies while driving prioritization, execution, experimentation, and user trust in a zero-to-one environment.

Own the end-to-end product direction and quality of an AI-powered email application. Define AI and system requirements, evaluation frameworks, quality standards, and measurable outcomes. Partner closely with ML, backend, and client engineering teams to make trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, reliability, safety, and user experience. Drive prioritization, specifications, experimentation, failure-mode mitigation, and continuous iteration in a technical zero-to-one environment.

Own the end-to-end lead management lifecycle, including capture, enrichment, qualification, scoring, routing, sales handoff, disposition, and recycling. Establish governance, business rules, SLAs, controls, and performance metrics; optimize workflows and integrations; resolve data quality and lead-flow issues; and partner with Sales, Marketing, Data Science, IT, and Analytics. Manage and develop a small team while overseeing operational priorities, testing, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Lead the technical side of enterprise sales for autonomous systems and physical AI customers. Own discovery, architecture reviews, demonstrations, proofs of concept, evaluations, deployments, and expansions. Translate customer workflows into solutions, address technical objections, and collaborate with Product and Engineering. Build scalable sales engineering processes, technical content, evaluation frameworks, and operating models while supporting strategic automotive OEM and enterprise opportunities.

Lead product strategy, requirements, and roadmap development for Honeywell Forge cloud applications serving utilities. Own AI and analytics capabilities for grid operations, DER management, rate design, and utility programs. Conduct customer and market discovery, competitive analysis, and voice-of-customer research. Partner with solution architects, sales, customers, and engineering to prioritize and deliver B2B SaaS products that generate measurable utility operational value.

Lead product strategy, requirements, roadmap, and AI capabilities for Honeywell Forge cloud applications serving utilities. Conduct customer and competitive discovery, translate utility workflows into product investments, define commercial opportunities, and partner with engineering to prioritize and deliver cloud-native B2B software. The role focuses on AI for grid operations, DER management, rate design, and utility program performance while ensuring measurable operational value.

Lead technical direction for high-impact machine learning initiatives, from research and experimentation through production deployment. Build and fine-tune LLMs, document understanding systems, model-serving infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, and data feedback loops. Establish standards for model quality, calibration, reproducibility, and responsible deployment while mentoring ML engineers and influencing organizational roadmaps. The role requires hands-on software and ML engineering expertise, production-scale model development, and strong statistical judgment.

The Senior Analyst will develop AI and ML algorithms, optimize data systems, and present research findings. Requires extensive experience in model development, system architecture, and MLOps.

Own the global consumer engagement and personalization domain across digital channels. Assess current capabilities, define multi-year strategy and roadmap, recommend personalization infrastructure investments, and translate priorities into shipped products. Partner with engineering, data science, design, marketing, legal, and regional teams to deliver scalable experiences. Establish metrics, run cross-market experiments, optimize performance, and make global versus localized decisions. Influence executives, mentor product managers, and apply AI, identity resolution, and generative AI to personalization.

Manage the AI opportunity roadmap for Risk Services, prioritizing use cases, coordinating internal data science teams and external vendors, translating business needs into requirements, and supporting AI governance, compliance, explainability, auditability, implementation, adoption, and benefits realization. The role focuses on business outcomes and solution delivery rather than hands-on model development.

Own and develop SandboxAQ’s intellectual property function, including patent portfolio strategy, invention harvesting, prosecution, lifecycle management, outside counsel oversight, freedom-to-operate analyses, trademark clearance, and trade secret programs. Partner with scientists, engineers, and business teams to protect innovations, inform product strategy, support transactions, and build scalable IP processes in a fast-growing AI-focused company.

Manage a team of data scientists to develop fraud detection models, lead planning and collaboration with leadership, and communicate outcomes effectively while maintaining strong business intuition and technical leadership.

Design and scale real-time bidding systems, auction mechanisms, bid forecasting, pacing algorithms, and marketplace intelligence models. Apply machine learning, reinforcement learning, control theory, experimentation, and large-scale data analysis to optimize advertiser returns. Lead projects from architecture through offline evaluation and online A/B testing, collaborating with product, infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver measurable business impact.

Manage paid media strategies and campaigns across search, social, display, and programmatic channels. Advise clients using integrated paid, organic, and analytics data; oversee campaign performance, keyword research, ad copy, landing page recommendations, and presentations. Build client relationships, mentor account associates, collaborate with SEO and data teams, and use AI to improve workflows and outcomes.

Develop and lead paid media strategies across search, social, display, and programmatic channels. Manage campaign strategy, performance analysis, testing, optimization, and integrated paid and organic recommendations. Consult with clients, present results, build relationships, mentor account associates, and identify data-driven growth opportunities. Use AI tools to improve workflows and contribute insights across the team.

Lead assessment and secure adoption of AI/ML and GenAI systems for clients. Design security patterns and controls, perform assessments and pen tests, prototype AI-enabled security capabilities, ensure compliance (PII, privacy, regulatory), document protocols, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to productionize scalable AI-security solutions.

Designs and implements AWS cloud-native applications, distributed systems, and machine learning infrastructure. Leads architecture for SageMaker model deployment, inference, endpoints, and AI integrations while guiding engineering teams. Builds scalable event-driven services using AWS Lambda, SNS/SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, and Bedrock. Develops Python automation and ML integrations, applies Terraform and CI/CD, and ensures production ML workloads are secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective. Preferred experience includes NLP, embeddings, generative AI, OCR, MLOps, RAG, and vector databases.

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.

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 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 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.

Design, develop, and maintain features for Gradio and Trackio, architect Python frameworks, collaborate with contributors, and enhance user experience for ML web apps.

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.

Design and lead large-scale machine learning and backend systems for advertiser growth, including budget pacing algorithms, GenAI creative generation infrastructure, marketplace experimentation, high-throughput billing pipelines, and real-time stream processing. Analyze marketplace and financial data, optimize advertiser performance, ensure billing accuracy and fault tolerance, lead multi-quarter technical roadmaps, and mentor senior engineers.

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.