Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Partner with a retained search firm to place software engineers and quant developers at top hedge funds. Provide candidate flow from your network; firm supplies clients, process, and fees. Remote, commission-only role with placement and pipeline incentives. Apply with placement examples, outreach metrics, and a candidate submission.

Lead and align ML, data, and engineering teams to define multi-year AI roadmaps, deliver production ML solutions, ensure robust data pipelines, set success metrics tied to business outcomes, and grow/mentor senior managers and engineers.

Lead and build a data science organization to create a prediction engine for vendor matching, order routing, and supply chain optimization. Anchor projects to P&L, design measurement and experiment frameworks, ship rapid wins, hire and coach data scientists, work hands-on in modeling and technical design, partner with product and engineering (Snowflake), and evolve systems toward agentic AI while reporting impact in dollar terms.

Build, ship, and own end-to-end ML models for vendor matching, order routing, and supply-chain optimization. Partner with data engineering to productionize models, quantify impact, document work, and implement decision logic components toward agentic AI in a fast-moving healthcare startup environment.

Own end-to-end modeling for vendor matching, order routing, and supply-chain optimization. Build predictive, causal, RL and OR solutions; design autonomous decision logic; quantify counterfactual impact; ship production models with data engineering; mentor senior data scientists; write technical design docs; partner on quarterly priorities and expand into revenue cycle and finance domains.

The Staff Product Manager will define product strategy, lead the product lifecycle, collaborate across teams, and drive innovation in claims processing software.

The Director of System Safety oversees safety functions for autonomous vehicles, managing safety cases, deployment plans, and regulatory relationships while leading a multi-disciplinary safety team.

Lead development of time-series and econometric models (ARIMA, VAR, state-space, WLS, panel data) and Bayesian probabilistic frameworks. Use causal inference and stochastic processes to produce actionable insights, work with large datasets on Databricks, communicate results to stakeholders, and mentor junior team members.

Own a product area of the Content Authoring Platform end-to-end: set vision and roadmap, run continuous discovery, define and measure outcomes, partner with engineering and design to deliver features, evaluate and apply AI capabilities prudently, mentor peers, and communicate strategy and trade-offs to stakeholders.

Lead client-facing full-stack Java development, mentor teams, design solutions, promote engineering best practices (Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, TDD), and deliver enterprise software using modern cloud, container, and JS frameworks.

Senior Business Systems Analyst to define requirements for agent-facing servicing applications, design integrations/APIs with core banking systems, translate needs into user stories and acceptance criteria, improve agent workflows and productivity, and identify AI/ML opportunities for fraud detection, automation, and operational analytics. Supports testing, validation, and releases.

Gather and document functional requirements for agent-facing servicing applications, define integrations/APIs with core banking systems, consult with stakeholders, identify AI/ML opportunities (fraud, KYC, automation), support testing and implementation, and act as SME while managing risks and compliance.

Lead go-to-market strategy for Magnet Forensics' security, incident response, and AI product portfolio. Influence executive, product, and sales stakeholders; translate technical AI/ML and forensic capabilities into messaging; develop buyer personas; create sales enablement and demand-generation content; evangelize products at events; partner with competitive intelligence and customer advocacy; mentor product marketing team members.

Design reusable software tools and subsystems, lead implementation and estimation, ensure systems integration and multi-platform compatibility, drive projects to completion, and perform feasibility analyses for future projects.

Architects and leads enterprise-scale data platforms supporting vector search, RAG, LLM applications, and Agentic AI for defense and intelligence clients. Establishes data quality, lineage, traceability, explainability, monitoring, and governance controls. Partners with engineering, cybersecurity, data science, and mission teams to deliver secure, scalable AI capabilities. Provides technical leadership, mentorship, architectural guidance, stakeholder communication, and evaluation of emerging AI technologies.

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.

Build and maintain full-stack features, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure for large-scale ad management and analytics. Integrate with advertising platform APIs, apply ML/NLP for forecasting and recommendations, collaborate with product and marketing teams, and use AI coding tools to accelerate development.

Lead causal inference and measurement efforts for payments, build and evaluate ML/AI and LLM-based models, optimize fraud mitigation and loss strategies, simulate interventions, and communicate findings to stakeholders to drive product and risk decisions.

Own end-to-end analysis of payments, chargebacks, and user lifecycle to identify drivers of net loss. Deep-dive into fraud cases, design and evaluate A/B experiments and risk-rule changes, build monitoring dashboards, partner with Risk, Payments, and Product to convert insights into mitigations, and run ad-hoc analyses of emerging loss trends.

Lead and execute independent research programs on NLP and LLM safety, design and run experiments, secure funding, publish and present results, lead cross-functional teams, and develop evaluation tools and challenges to advance digital safety.

Lead end-to-end data science work: exploratory and statistical analysis, data engineering, ML model development (recommendation engines, predictive systems), data visualization (Power BI, Tableau), and multi-int large-data analytics to support defense programs and produce actionable intelligence products.

Lead analytics partner to Community Support, driving data-driven roadmaps, scalable reporting and measurement, causal inference and experimentation, and improvements to agent/guest/host experiences via analytics, modeling, and stakeholder influence.

Design and implement scalable backend and distributed systems for a marketing intelligence platform. Build near-real-time ingestion and processing, scale an incrementality/experimentation product, integrate AI-powered workflows, improve data ingestion/exports and connection-state systems, and contribute frontend components to deliver end-to-end product experiences.

Lead a Big Data Engineering team to deliver production-grade ETL and data pipelines at scale. Own team execution, code quality, morale, and roadmap execution with product managers. Remove roadblocks, coach and develop engineers, promote engineering best practices, and enable data-driven and AI-powered product features (personalization, recommendations, search, ranking, matching).

Evaluate and strengthen AI model behavior on cybersecurity topics by writing expert prompts, annotating and grading model responses for accuracy and safety, and applying structured guidelines to classify sensitive content. Work part-time on AI safety tasks with emphasis on secure, responsible handling of dual-use information.