Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Leads the technical direction of an autonomous vehicle perception stack. Responsibilities include architecting scalable perception systems, developing scene detection and runtime activation, improving robustness against sensor degradation and adverse weather, integrating multimodal models, managing ML and data pipelines, monitoring field performance, leading testing and feature delivery, and mentoring engineers. Requires strong robotics, computer vision, machine learning, real-time systems, software architecture, and team leadership experience.

Lead the strategy and implementation of AI solutions in R&D, driving adoption and improving operational efficiency through advanced analytics. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design AI/ML models and evaluate new technologies.

Design, prototype, and ship LLM- and agent-powered AI features for observability. Rapidly iterate with real users, integrate AI workflows with tooling and alerting, collaborate cross-functionally, and ensure scalable, production-ready solutions in cloud-native environments.

Lead ML technical strategy for Live Ads, designing and deploying forecasting, targeting, bidding, auction, and yield-optimization models. Build and evaluate large-scale production ML systems, create online/offline evaluation frameworks, partner with product to set objectives and trade-offs, and communicate results to stakeholders and leadership.

Lead ML initiatives to improve Sales productivity and automation: define roadmap, design and deploy production ML models and AI agents, build measurement pipelines with analytics engineers, iterate from performance and seller feedback, and act as senior technical partner across product, engineering, and Sales to drive measurable revenue impact.

Design and execute ML research and end-to-end model development for generative and summary-generation systems. Lead rigorous experiments, translate findings for stakeholders, partner with engineers to deploy models, track state-of-the-art advances, and define roadmaps to improve promotional writing and discovery for members.

Lead design and execution of a modernized, Python-native AI/ML platform for AIMS: define architecture, drive migration, build migration tooling, ensure scalability, observability, cost optimization, and reliability, prototype GenAI operational tooling, and set org-wide technical standards.

The role involves defining and refining Guidewire's AI narrative, crafting audience-specific messages, leading competitive positioning, and creating technical marketing assets to convey the value of AI-driven solutions in the P&C insurance sector.

Develop, implement, and refine advanced digital signal processing algorithms to detect, classify, track, and geolocate RF emissions. Integrate and test signal processing software with RF/SDR hardware, support algorithm modeling, software integration, and field demonstrations, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Contract senior recruiter responsible for sourcing and hiring ML/AI talent, managing full-cycle recruitment, partnering with hiring managers, and supporting diversity and employer-branding efforts.

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.

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.

Lead a team of ML engineers to design, build, and productionize LLM/GenAI and agentic systems (retrieval, tool use, orchestration). Collaborate cross-functionally with MLOps, product, and data science, review code, mentor engineers, run technical evaluations and proofs-of-concept, and ensure reliable, safe ML deployments for a large SaaS product.

The Machine Learning Engineer will develop and maintain scalable ML systems, collaborate across teams, and innovate solutions for real-time applications to enhance customer experiences.

Embed with strategic higher-education partners to design, build, and ship production AI and platform integrations (LLM/RAG, LTI) across Cengage products. Own end-to-end deployments, write production code, ensure compliance and accessibility, evaluate AI safety and outcomes, mentor FDEs, and translate field learnings into product roadmap contributions.

Drive delivery excellence and customer success by leading the architecture and implementation of AI/ML solutions while ensuring account growth and client engagement.

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).

Build and scale production-ready generative AI applications: design multi-agent workflows, implement advanced RAG with vector DBs, integrate/swap LLMs, fine-tune models, and deploy scalable FastAPI/Docker services with monitoring and optimization for latency, cost, and reliability.

Design, develop, and deploy machine learning and deep learning models; build end-to-end ML pipelines including preprocessing, training, evaluation, and deployment; perform feature engineering on large datasets; deploy and monitor models on cloud platforms; collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions and retrain models as needed.

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.