Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Design, build, and operate production-grade ML systems for personalization, search, and recommendations. Own end-to-end pipelines from data ingestion and modeling to deployment, monitoring, and iteration, ensuring scalable, reliable, and observable services.

Design, build, and scale MLOps infrastructure and CI/CD/continuous training pipelines. Deploy and monitor ML models as microservices or batch jobs, manage cloud GPU/CPU resources with IaC, enable observability for model drift and latency, and collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product teams to ensure reproducibility, compliance, and production reliability.

Responsible for designing, building, and operating AI-powered features, scalable APIs, and maintaining integrations within ClickHouse's AI/ML ecosystem.

Lead development and optimization of the compiler stack for ML systems, collaborate across teams, integrate and deploy products, map ML operations to hardware, and drive compiler infrastructure innovation and performance debugging.

The Senior ML Engineer will develop and deploy full-stack AI solutions, manage LLM integration, and collaborate closely with defense clients to enhance real-world applications in secure environments.

Lead and execute ML/AI strategy, design and deploy production-grade ML and GenAI solutions, mentor MLEs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and build scalable, secure ML/LLM platforms and inference pipelines to drive business impact.

Build and productionize AI systems for logistics: multi-agent copilots, forecasting/optimization models, evaluation and observability, continuous learning loops, and operational reliability. Mentor engineers and make build-vs-rule tradeoffs while shipping high-impact ML services.

As a Senior MLOps Engineer, you will manage production ML systems, define lifecycle strategies, optimize ML pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance ML operations.

The job involves building responsive web dashboards, advanced data visualizations, and analytics tools for unmanned aircraft systems, requiring a deep understanding of UI/UX design and data presentation.

The role involves designing and optimizing bidding algorithms for real-time bidding systems, leveraging machine learning and large datasets to enhance performance and maximize advertiser returns, while collaborating across teams.

Design and implement AI-powered data pipelines and LLM-based mapping to parse, normalize, and validate structured and unstructured data. Build mapping logic, ingestion templates, and load-ready outputs; integrate ML/AI solutions with enterprise systems (APIs, databases, Azure); validate accuracy with stakeholders; document for scalability and production readiness while reducing manual mapping and improving data quality.

Responsible for fine-tuning state-of-the-art LLMs, optimizing models for deployment, and driving AI architectural decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop impactful AI products.

Design, build, and own production ML and LLM-driven features (RAG, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, semantic search). Write maintainable code, create design docs, troubleshoot issues, collaborate with product/design, and participate in Agile development. Work with Python/Java/JavaScript, ML frameworks, and cloud/container technologies.

Provide technical leadership for AI/ML development under DMA/CIO7 tasks; design, develop, and deploy advanced AI/ML and agentic AI capabilities; ensure compliance with DIA QAF including model validation, bias testing, and performance optimization; coordinate with data scientists, software engineers, and mission stakeholders; recommend emerging AI/ML solutions.

As a Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, you will lead ML research, develop evaluation frameworks, mentor researchers, and collaborate on clinical AI solutions.

Lead a team of machine learning data scientists, overseeing model development for fraud detection and risk assessment, and ensuring quality throughout the model lifecycle while mentoring the team.

Design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade AI/ML and LLM systems (including RAG and agentic pipelines). Integrate AI capabilities with product workflows, run evaluation and monitoring, optimize model and system performance, and apply strong engineering practices (testing, CI/CD, versioning).

Design and implement production ML features, close behavior gaps with common frameworks, investigate divergences, improve performance and stability, and document designs and tests for geospatial and large-scale ML workflows.

Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end machine learning models using statistical and ML algorithms. Prepare and enrich data, implement scalable PySpark/Databricks solutions, and collaborate with product and engineering to create personalized customer experiences and actionable insights.

Design, develop, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models (GANs, VAEs, transformers). Collaborate with cross-functional teams, troubleshoot model issues, document work, and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders while staying current on research.

Design, develop, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models using deep learning and transformer architectures. Collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot model issues, optimize performance, document work, and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Design, build, and scale production Generative AI applications: multi-agent systems, advanced RAG pipelines, LLM integration and fine-tuning, scalable FastAPI backends, vector search, monitoring, and Dockerized deployments.

Design, build, and deploy production-grade ML and AI systems end-to-end, combining classical ML, deep learning, and LLM/agentic integrations. Implement MLOps, monitoring, CI/CD, model serving, vector search/RAG pipelines, and scalable APIs; mentor engineers and drive engineering best practices.

Design, build, and deploy production Generative AI applications: orchestrate multi-agent workflows, implement advanced RAG with vector DBs, integrate and fine-tune LLMs, develop scalable FastAPI/async backends, containerize with Docker, and optimize GenAI systems for latency, cost, and reliability.

Build and scale production Generative AI applications: design multi-agent systems and LangGraph workflows, implement advanced RAG with LlamaIndex and vector DBs, integrate and fine-tune various LLMs, and deploy containerized FastAPI services with monitoring, CI/CD, and performance/cost optimizations.