Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead enterprise data and AI architecture across marketing, customer engagement, digital, sales, and analytics. Design scalable cloud data platforms, reusable data products, semantic models, real-time and batch architectures, governed AI capabilities, machine learning systems, generative AI, agents, recommendations, and personalization. Establish standards for governance, security, privacy, quality, lineage, and observability. Provide technical direction, lead architecture reviews and roadmaps, partner with engineering and data science teams, and mentor architects and engineers.

Lead enterprise security operations, resilience, incident response, threat intelligence, cloud security, IAM, and risk management. Serve as deputy to the CISO and primary incident commander while advising executives on cyber risk. Build and scale multidisciplinary security teams, modernize cloud-native defenses, embed security-by-design across products and AI/ML systems, and establish metrics-driven governance, automation, regulatory alignment, and business-focused security strategies.

Senior Product Designer responsible for creating high-craft, 0-to-1 AI recruiting and talent product experiences. The role involves visual and interaction design, rapid iteration, prototyping, design-system development, production-ready delivery, and experimentation with generative AI. Candidates should have strong Figma expertise, exceptional visual design skills, experience shipping SaaS, enterprise, or AI products, and a portfolio demonstrating creative range and execution.

Leads data engineering teams while designing and optimizing scalable batch and real-time data pipelines on cloud platforms. Responsibilities include developing PySpark and Spark workflows, orchestrating Airflow DAGs, managing cloud infrastructure, implementing CI/CD, improving data quality and performance, and mentoring engineers. The role collaborates with clients, product, architecture, and program management teams, while applying generative AI and DevOps practices to improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency.

Designs and governs secure, responsible AI/ML integrations for government contracting and service-management workflows. Translates mission needs into measurable use cases, defines API and workflow integration patterns, establishes evaluation and oversight controls, protects CUI and classified information, coordinates cybersecurity and authorization requirements, guides pilots, and monitors deployed model performance. Requires six or more years of technology delivery experience, AI/ML integration expertise, a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, U.S. citizenship, and Secret clearance eligibility.

Design the full Search experience across organic and sponsored results, including typeahead, ranking, filters, empty states, and monetization. Establish design principles and components, partner with product, research, data science, and ML engineering, and use experimentation to improve engagement, relevance, and revenue. The role requires substantial search or discovery design experience, strong product craft, consumer instincts, and comfort designing alongside AI and monetization teams.

Leads Propel America's product and technology strategy, including the Fellow Portal, AI integrations, technology roadmap, software development, Salesforce, infrastructure, data systems, cybersecurity, and vendor relationships. Manages technical staff and outsourced IT providers, oversees architecture, QA, releases, compliance, data privacy, and disaster recovery, and partners cross-functionally to translate organizational needs into scalable products and technology solutions.

Develop, train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor machine learning and statistical models using Databricks, Python, SQL, Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Prepare datasets, engineer features, manage model lifecycles, validate data, and support governance practices. Translate client requirements into scalable analytics solutions, analyze trends, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders while collaborating across data science, engineering, cloud, security, and business teams.

Develop advanced digital signal processing algorithms for RF signal detection, identification, tracking, classification, and geolocation. Integrate and test signal-processing software with RF, software-defined radio, and host-processing hardware. Work with recorded and synthetic I/Q data, support electromagnetic spectrum sensing, contribute to software integration and field demonstrations, and collaborate with business development, production, and engineering teams.

Build and operate model validation, quantization, and safety systems for production ML. Develop pipelines for security scanning, optimization (quantization/pruning), routing, prompt management, and evaluation frameworks measuring accuracy, performance, and safety across model lifecycles.

Own audience or measurement products for Fetch’s monetization business, translating advertiser goals and purchase behavior into predictive models, datasets, and causal studies. Build and validate audience expansion, measure advertising outcomes, assess bias and uncertainty, and improve products using campaign results. Partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, and GTM, present findings to customers, and develop reproducible analyses and production-ready assets.

Lead product vision and roadmap for data and analytics products (ML, generative AI, data pipelines, BI). Translate business needs into developer-ready features, maintain backlog, collaborate with engineering and stakeholders, track KPIs, and drive adoption and continuous improvement.

Leads the launch of BGO’s enterprise sales motion for its AI-first data operations proposition. Responsibilities include developing prospecting strategy and sales playbooks, generating new-logo pipeline, selling complex $1M+ enterprise solutions, building executive relationships, closing transformational deals, supporting AI/ML product integration, and representing the company at industry events. The role partners with marketing, communications, client solutions, and leadership on RFPs, product roadmap development, and strategic market initiatives.

Own technical wins for strategic enterprise sales, partnering with Account Executives to discover customer needs and develop production-ready solutions. Build proofs of concept, demonstrations, prototype AI agents, and supporting tools while engaging AI teams, data platform teams, and enterprise architects. Apply hands-on experience with LLMs, agents, data science, machine learning, or data engineering to explain how agents retrieve data and use business context.

Build and maintain data models, ETL pipelines, and production machine learning systems supporting recommendations, personalization, pricing, search, and marketplace optimization. Own features end to end, conduct statistically rigorous experimentation, monitor deployments, write technical designs, and collaborate with engineering, data science, and product teams to deliver measurable business impact.

Leads cyber risk assurance strategy and multidisciplinary teams responsible for control monitoring, testing, evidence management, issue remediation, audit support, regulatory readiness, and assurance automation. The role advances continuous, AI-enabled assurance by translating regulatory and cybersecurity requirements into measurable outcomes, maintaining assurance frameworks, evaluating control effectiveness, managing concurrent activities, and reporting metrics to support executive risk decisions.

Own and negotiate complex commercial transactions, including customer agreements, research collaborations, partnerships, data licenses, SaaS contracts, vendor agreements, and professional services agreements. Partner with sales, science, finance, and R&D teams, particularly on life sciences and computational chemistry deals. Build scalable legal infrastructure through playbooks, templates, fallback positions, self-service processes, and AI-enabled contract workflows.

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.

Owns the infrastructure and production lifecycle for product and marketing machine learning models. Responsibilities include real-time model deployment, feature pipelines and stores, monitoring and alerting, CI/CD, retraining infrastructure, marketing model operationalization, data pipelines, ad-platform feedback loops, and dependency management. The role bridges data science and engineering while mentoring teammates and making pragmatic architecture decisions.

Lead the Machine Learning Ranking team, managing data scientists and ML engineers while driving career development, technical quality, and product outcomes. Partner with Product Management and Decision Science to define roadmaps, metrics, and marketplace experiments. Oversee machine-learning pipeline development, model deployment, and performance monitoring. Provide technical guidance on ML and AI applications, evaluate engineering work, and promote scalable, reproducible practices across the team.

Leads financial strategy, planning, forecasting, and operating cadence across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and GTM Operations. Owns GTM economics, sales compensation, commissions forecasting, executive reporting, driver-based modeling, resource allocation, and profitability analysis. Modernizes Finance through AI, automation, advanced analytics, improved controls, and scalable processes while developing the GTM Finance team and advising senior executives.

Leads automated scoring and natural language application research for educational assessment products. Responsibilities include setting team priorities, mentoring scientists, designing and analyzing studies, developing machine learning applications, collaborating with stakeholders, presenting technical findings, writing reports, publishing applied research, and supporting products involving automated scoring, crisis-content detection, and formative feedback.

Manage CropX’s dealer network across the Western Midwest and Pacific Northwest, recruiting and developing partners, driving territory sales, maintaining the sales funnel, and supporting dealer onboarding and training. The role involves communicating CropX’s AgTech value to dealers and farmers, coordinating with technology and business teams, identifying market opportunities, independently managing schedules, and traveling 30–50% or more with seasonal spikes.

Defines and leads architecture standards for production machine learning, generative AI, LLM, and agentic systems. Establishes lifecycle management, observability, evaluation, safety, security, operational readiness, support ownership, and governance practices. Partners with engineering, product, data, security, infrastructure, and IT support teams to deliver reliable AI capabilities. Provides hands-on technical leadership, architecture reviews, documentation, mentoring, prototyping, incident support, and guidance on RAG, vector search, model gateways, prompt orchestration, and agent workflows.

Conducts data collection, cleaning, management, statistical and computational analysis for education policy research. Responsibilities include building reproducible ETL pipelines, creating visualizations and research materials, applying machine learning and natural language processing, validating model outputs, managing restricted-use data, reviewing analyses, and coordinating with external collaborators. Senior responsibilities include overseeing analytical projects, documenting methodologies, managing compute and API costs, and serving as a technical contact.