Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Leads the creation and global scaling of an AI Data Operations practice. Responsibilities include defining service strategy, developing AI data and evaluation solutions, originating and closing client engagements, establishing quality and governance frameworks, building strategic partnerships, providing thought leadership, and enabling scalable managed-service delivery. The role combines AI expertise, consulting, sales, solution design, commercial leadership, and global operations.

Design and build a production-grade AI memory and retrieval engine for personalized, privacy-preserving LLM experiences. Responsibilities include developing multi-tier storage and hybrid retrieval pipelines, memory extraction and classification, adaptive updates, evaluation frameworks, and reliability safeguards. The role researches advanced memory architectures, supports agentic workflows and tool integrations, collaborates with product management, and owns production operations. Strong software engineering, Python, NLP/ML, vector database, LLM orchestration, privacy, and RAG expertise are required.

Design and build production-grade AI memory systems, including retrieval pipelines, storage tiers, privacy filtering, memory extraction, adaptive updates, hybrid search, and evaluation frameworks. Ship and maintain LLM-powered features, diagnose RAG and prompt failures, implement agentic workflows and tool integrations, and ensure reliable degradation and fallback strategies. Collaborate with product management to define feasible memory-system capabilities while owning production reliability.

Designs and manages AWS cloud infrastructure and Amazon EKS platforms using GitLab CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. Builds ETL workflows and scalable data pipelines for analytics and AI workloads, supports MLOps/AIOps and FinOps capabilities, troubleshoots Linux systems, and improves platform performance, security, scalability, and availability.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for setting technical direction, architecting scalable distributed systems, shipping high-impact features, and building AI-powered tools for a virtual healthcare platform. The role includes mentoring engineers, partnering with product and clinical leadership, translating user needs into technical solutions, and guiding frontend and backend application development in a fast-paced startup environment.

Leads enterprise evaluation, governance, and implementation planning for emerging mental health therapeutics, including digital therapeutics, AI-enabled tools, neuromodulation, pharmacotherapies, and technology-enabled care models. Develops clinical protocols, workflows, provider training, safety criteria, outcome measurement, and adoption support. Partners with clinical, technology, research, quality, operations, and growth teams; evaluates vendors and evidence; monitors regulatory developments; and advances responsible innovation across the organization.

Lead the roadmap and delivery of an AI-native L1 IT operations agent. Partner with customers, design partners, engineering, and go-to-market teams to ship enterprise-scale capabilities, improve self-service adoption, and build trust through transparent agent experiences and feedback loops. Drive product strategy from discovery through launch in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Lead end-to-end solution architecture for a federal manufacturing modernization program integrating MES, Oracle E-Business Suite, OCI, Maximo, enterprise applications, data platforms, AI, and manufacturing IT/OT systems. Translate mission requirements into secure, scalable architectures; define integration patterns and modernization roadmaps; guide Agile teams; review technical designs; and ensure performance, availability, maintainability, cybersecurity, and operational continuity across the enterprise.

Develop client AI/ML solution architectures, assess technical feasibility, define requirements, estimate work, identify risks, and prepare proposal content. Design deployable inference solutions across FPGA, adaptive SoC, GPU, and AI accelerator targets while evaluating latency, throughput, power, memory, data pipelines, and production requirements. Present solutions, support business development, contribute to product and R&D initiatives, and undertake project work. Travel within North America for up to six weeks annually.

Shape company-wide machine learning strategy across credit, fraud, marketing, and growth. Build and improve consumer credit models, establish model governance and responsible modeling controls, and advance experimentation, causal inference, and business measurement. Provide technical leadership, mentor scientists, evaluate AI-assisted workflows, and partner with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Engineering, Product, and Finance to support reliable, compliant, and impactful financial decision systems.

Lead the design, development, deployment, monitoring, and improvement of interconnected customer lifetime value models covering conversion, retention, premiums, and claim losses. Serve as a hands-on technical leader, guide modeling strategy, evaluate experiments and business impact, partner with engineering and business teams, support production ML systems, establish technical standards, and coach other data scientists.

Leads fraud strategy and prevention for a consumer lending product, owning fraud typologies, repayment and chargeback analytics, decision-engine rules, machine-learning risk models, blocking protocols, investigation workflows, and fraud performance metrics. Partners with Credit Risk, Data Science, Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Compliance teams to identify synthetic identity, account takeover, and loan abuse patterns while supporting regulatory reporting and profitable growth.

Lead fraud strategy and prevention for a consumer lending product. Design fraud typologies, analyze repayment fraud, identity spoofing, chargebacks, synthetic identities, and account takeover risks, and own fraud performance metrics. Architect decision-engine rules, deploy machine-learning risk models, develop automated blocking and investigation workflows, and coordinate with Legal and Compliance on suspicious activity reporting and regulatory requirements.

Develop and validate machine learning models, training pipelines, inference systems, and numerical methods using Python. Debug algorithmic and system-level issues, optimize memory usage and performance, design systematic tests, and build reproducible workflows. Review challenging ML engineering tasks, use coding agents in development, document technical findings, and deliver high-quality work independently within deadlines.

Develop and deploy machine-learned interatomic potentials for PFAS substitution. Responsibilities include generating and curating first-principles training data, building reproducible cloud and HPC workflows, training and validating ML force fields, running molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry campaigns, predicting physical properties, extending models to condensed-phase and process chemistries, and communicating model uncertainty and domain limitations.

Lead design, development, and production deployment of ML and algorithmic solutions. Own end-to-end ML systems, support distributed production reliability, communicate tradeoffs, and apply generative AI, LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic techniques to product problems.

Leads the AI product strategy and roadmap, extending governed Alteryx workflows and business logic into enterprise AI agents and LLM ecosystems. Owns the Faster, Better, Cheaper ROI narrative, benchmarks product performance, quantifies customer value, champions trustworthy AI through the VURA framework, and represents the product vision with customers, analysts, and external audiences.

Leads Dandelion Health’s AI developer business by building pipeline, closing clinical AI data and validation partnerships, recruiting developers into its marketplace, and achieving revenue targets. Develops commercial strategy, manages executive relationships, structures agreements, and collaborates with marketing, product, data, engineering, and clinical informatics teams. Represents the company at industry events and advises on clinical AI validation, regulatory, payer, and competitive dynamics.

Develop and deploy machine learning algorithms that improve real-time device identification and fraud detection. Own data science projects from experimentation through production, including supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning, real-time inference, training automation, exploratory analysis, and model-to-service integration. Contribute to engineering best practices, collaborate within a global remote team, and participate in a shared on-call rotation.

Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, discovery, delivery, and continuous improvement of Rezilient’s member experience products. Partner with clinical operations, engineering, design, customer success, and sales to ship accessible, engaging healthcare experiences. Define requirements, prioritize backlogs, establish product metrics, ensure healthcare compliance, and help integrate AI into care delivery. The role requires experience scaling consumer health products, building AI or machine learning features, and operating effectively in a regulated startup environment.

Own and grow strategic Financial Services accounts through executive relationship management, consultative selling, renewals, and expansion. Lead commercial strategy, SOWs, negotiations, QBRs, delivery governance, escalations, and value realization. Coordinate delivery, sales, solutions, cloud, and Databricks partners while managing scope, budgets, timelines, margins, retention, profitability, and customer satisfaction. Translate Databricks, data engineering, analytics, ML, AI, and cloud transformation capabilities into measurable business outcomes.

Own and grow Federal Civilian accounts by meeting sales quotas, acquiring new customers, expanding contracts, managing the full sales cycle, and cultivating executive and technical relationships. Develop account strategies, forecasts, pipelines, partner ecosystems, and business plans while presenting networking, cybersecurity, AI, and data security solutions to federal agencies, systems integrators, and resellers.

Lead data science projects from ideation through enterprise impact, building scalable and well-tested solutions that improve healthcare outcomes. Apply probability, statistics, machine learning, SQL, and Python to develop data-driven products and insights. Partner with stakeholders, assess product performance, identify strategic improvements, mitigate risks, and mentor teammates while aligning initiatives with business objectives.

Promotes, trains users on, and supports eDiscovery technology for litigation matters across the firm. Engages legal teams and clients, serves as a subject matter expert for Relativity, RelativityOne, OPUS2, and case management systems, and supports litigation workflows. Applies AI-enabled eDiscovery, TAR, analytics, automation, and machine learning to improve review efficiency, quality control, and defensibility while managing time-sensitive assignments.

Own customer-facing AI and data engagements from discovery through production launch. Define business value, pilot MVPs, success criteria, and product requirements; prioritize engineering backlogs; lead technical discovery and architecture discussions; manage agile delivery, testing, security, performance, adoption, and stakeholder alignment. Partner with executives, sales, and engineers to deliver production-ready solutions and identify follow-on opportunities.