Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Manage technology operations across three global studios, including systems administration, infrastructure, technical support, equipment management, business and creative tool administration, vendor coordination, and troubleshooting. Partner with global IT, information security, and privacy teams on policies, compliance, and content security. Drive AI and machine-learning integrations to improve workflows and business efficiency while supporting clients and global technology initiatives.

Own and advance Wonderlic’s AI-powered Jobs Engine, using production machine learning and NLP to analyze labor-market data and infer job characteristics at scale. Partner with product, engineering, and I-O psychology teams to integrate responsible AI into assessment and workforce solutions. Apply fairness, explainability, legal defensibility, and rigorous evaluation practices to employment-related AI systems, including generative AI outputs and assessment interpretation.

Leads client-facing management consulting and transformation programs spanning revenue operations, marketing, sales, customer growth, data, analytics, and AI. Advises senior executives, develops operating models and transformation roadmaps, leads solutioning and proposals, oversees delivery governance, and translates business needs into implementable data and technology solutions. Builds thought leadership, reusable consulting assets, and high-performing teams while supporting strategic growth and client relationships.

Leads and develops a fraud analyst team responsible for investigating emerging threats, responding to incidents, and improving fraud-risk strategies. Owns investigative standards, playbooks, workflows, and tools while serving as an escalation resource for complex cases. Partners with Data Science, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and business leaders to convert fraud insights into scalable signals, model improvements, and better customer outcomes. Supports customer conversations as a fraud subject-matter expert and coaches analysts on communicating risk decisions.

Prototype and develop generative AI applications for business software, including automated model evaluation, synthetic video, and consistent image and brand asset generation. Own projects from experimentation through product delivery, combining system architecture, quantitative reasoning, product judgment, and creative LLM application development.

Lead analytics for client engagements across data onboarding, study planning, predictive modeling, production deployment, and ongoing optimization. Develop models for audience targeting, segmentation, propensity scoring, and campaign optimization, primarily for commercial pharmaceutical applications. Partner with business, analytics, and IT stakeholders, lead technical workshops, present findings to senior audiences, and manage client relationships. Build machine learning pipelines using Python, SQL, and cloud technologies, while contributing client insights to internal product development.

Develop and maintain Power BI reports, dashboards, visualizations, semantic models, and analytics solutions. Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, optimize queries and data models, ensure reporting accuracy and performance, and support data governance. Serve as the primary liaison for business users, provide training and troubleshooting, manage tickets, and collaborate with Data and QA teams. The role also advances AI and machine learning capabilities, mentors colleagues, and contributes to automation, documentation, and code reviews.

Conduct applied AI and machine learning research focused on multimodal data, foundation models, agents, evaluation, and data enrichment. Monitor research trends, prototype emerging techniques, design experiments, validate opportunities, and translate findings into briefs and recommendations. Partner with product and engineering teams to guide data strategy, training corpus generation, and longer-term opportunity prioritization.

Leads the AI Engineering team across applied AI features and foundational ML infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing Senior and Staff engineers, hiring and coaching, deploying LLM-powered capabilities, building MLOps and AI observability platforms, balancing product delivery with platform investment, and ensuring privacy, compliance, evaluation rigor, and clinical safety in production systems.

Set the technical vision for data science, lead complex statistical and machine learning model development from concept through production, and architect scalable modeling platforms and pipelines. Develop credit risk, pricing, and loss forecasting models; establish model governance standards; partner with senior leaders; mentor data scientists; and communicate technical strategy to executives. The role emphasizes production deployment, monitoring, cloud architecture, and high-impact decision-making across the business.

Own the clinical infrastructure and program portfolio powering Arine’s medication management platform. Evolve the clinical recommendation engine, expand data inputs, standardize program configuration, and create repeatable frameworks for launching and scaling clinical programs. Partner with clinical, engineering, data science, implementation, and customer success teams to translate needs into requirements, improve onboarding, maintain regulatory alignment, and prioritize work using clinical safety, user value, and business impact.

Lead the demand generation function by translating go-to-market priorities into segmented campaigns across email, search, social, content, webinars, and events. Own HubSpot automation, Salesforce integration, lead scoring, funnel analytics, marketing-sourced pipeline, budgets, and agency performance. Collaborate with Sales and Commercial Operations to improve lead handoffs and conversion. Apply AI and automation to increase execution efficiency while coaching team members and building the future demand generation team.

Own customer accounts and success plans from onboarding through adoption, lead cross-functional teams delivering AI and machine learning solutions, manage customer relationships and contracts, coordinate internal resources and subcontractors, and resolve issues. The role requires strategic communication, analytics-driven problem solving, logistics or sustainment experience, enterprise systems familiarity, security-clearance eligibility, and at least 50% travel.

Drive adoption of AI-powered utility solutions through pre-sales consulting and post-sales enablement. Gather requirements, architect and demonstrate computer vision and ML workflows, lead RFI/RFP support, guide deployments and integrations, complete security audits, deliver customer training, and create technical presentations. The role requires strong AI/ML knowledge, customer-facing communication, scripting experience, and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Lead the design and development of production-grade machine learning systems, including large-scale document pipelines and agentic workflows for healthcare claims and payment integrity. Drive LLM prompt engineering, multimodal AI, RAG, orchestration, observability, reliability, and explainability. Collaborate with data science, data engineering, and product teams, reduce technical debt, improve scalability, and mentor engineers on enterprise AI system design and development.

Manage federal intelligence-community customer relationships for Legion’s generative AI platform. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, coordinating feature development and deployments, leading onboarding and training, demonstrating product value, supporting renewals and expansions, collecting feedback, and resolving customer issues with engineering. The role requires technical communication with government stakeholders, collaboration across sales, product, and engineering, frequent onsite customer engagement, prior federal agency experience, and a Secret or TS/SCI clearance.

Leads new business development, account growth, commercial discussions, client relationships, and sales operations for AI and GenAI data solutions. Partners with engineering, delivery, and customer success teams to understand frontier lab needs, structure projects, close opportunities, and expand client accounts. Requires quota-based technology sales experience, startup experience, STEM education, and strong AI/ML market knowledge.

Own quality engineering for an AI-enabled decision-support system. Develop test strategy, translate acceptance criteria into automated tests, integrate coverage into CI/CD release gates, and perform functional, integration, performance, and load testing. Build evaluation sets, audit model decisions, measure errors and overrides, document release evidence, and maintain rollback criteria. Coordinate user acceptance testing and independently govern releases. The role requires strong coding, statistical literacy, audit-ready documentation, active Secret clearance, and up to 25% travel.

Own the technical side of complex enterprise and government sales cycles. Conduct technical discovery, translate mission needs into solution concepts, lead tailored software demonstrations, address architecture and integration questions, develop technical proposal content, qualify opportunities, and connect customer feedback with Product and Engineering. The role supports AI-enabled logistics software for defense and national security customers and requires customer-facing technical expertise, strong communication, active clearance, U.S. citizenship, and travel up to 25%.

Build and validate analytical models using large structured datasets to improve operational and business outcomes. Translate complex findings into actionable recommendations, partner with engineering, design, and product teams to deploy production-ready solutions, lead high-impact federal projects, mentor junior staff, and shape data science strategy for Department of Education programs.

Serve as a technical leader supporting sales across enterprise, service provider, and public sector customers. Evaluate F5 solutions, explain technical and business trade-offs, conduct demonstrations and presentations, and collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Development. Provide expertise in application delivery, security, cloud, Kubernetes, containers, Linux, NGINX, APIs, AI infrastructure, and automation. Act as a technical evangelist, publish educational content, mentor solution engineering teams, and support strategic opportunities and product launches.

Lead the design, productionization, and operation of machine learning and agentic AI capabilities. Partner with product engineering, shape AI/ML architecture, build evaluation systems and data pipelines, and develop reliable MLOps tooling. Champion responsible AI, safety, latency, cost, and error handling. Serve as a technical resource for engineers, influence direction, mentor others, and occasionally explain AI functionality to customers or customer-facing teams.

Lead the vision, strategy, and evolution of LTK’s creator experience and commerce products. Define creator workflows, identify AI-powered opportunities, analyze behavioral data, establish outcome metrics, and drive experimentation to improve engagement, retention, earnings, and product quality. Collaborate across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and Creator Success while influencing senior stakeholders and guiding complex, multi-quarter initiatives.

Owns CSL Plasma’s target-state business architecture, capability models, value streams, architecture decisions, integration standards, and technology roadmaps. Translates business strategy and regulatory requirements into architecture blueprints across digital products, while governing AI, automation, data, and integration patterns. Partners with product, engineering, enterprise architecture, security, privacy, and compliance teams to drive committed designs, architectural consistency, and migration sequencing across a complex regulated environment.

Own end-to-end client relationships for a book of B2B SaaS customers: drive adoption, engagement, retention, and expansion of AI-powered contract drafting tools. Lead onboarding, training, large-scale rollouts, and translate customer feedback into product improvements while designing scalable CS processes and tracking health metrics to demonstrate value.