Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Develop and maintain open-source Python frameworks and ML developer tools, architect scalable libraries, grow early-stage projects, build real-time streaming capabilities, integrate modern frontend technologies, and collaborate with open-source contributors and the broader developer community.

Lead independent validation and governance of credit and fraud models, build automated Python monitoring for model drift and performance, drive remediation with model developers, and liaise with audit and regulators to support Affirm Bank's model risk management.

Lead the architecture and production deployment of agentic AI systems for classified and mission-critical government environments. Build systems for geospatial reasoning, retrieval, embeddings, persistent memory, orchestration, evaluation, and reliability. Own shared ML infrastructure, define technical direction, partner across engineering and research teams, mentor engineers, and drive ambiguous initiatives from prototype to supported production capability.

Owns the architecture, development, evaluation, and production deployment of generative AI, agentic AI, computer vision, and reinforcement learning systems for mission-critical government applications. Responsibilities include building scalable ML infrastructure, improving models through tuning and retraining, developing evaluation benchmarks, partnering with users and research teams, mentoring engineers, and designing for classified and resource-constrained environments.

Drives operational excellence through data analysis, dashboards, process improvements, and cross-functional project leadership. The role embeds with business units to manage day-to-day operations, investigate trends, answer strategic questions, implement workflows, coordinate stakeholders, track deliverables, and present insights to technical and non-technical audiences. It serves as a strategic partner to operations leadership in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

The Senior Analyst will develop AI and ML algorithms, optimize data systems, and present research findings. Requires extensive experience in model development, system architecture, and MLOps.

Lead the technical side of enterprise sales for autonomous systems and physical AI customers. Own discovery, architecture reviews, demonstrations, proofs of concept, evaluations, deployments, and expansions. Translate customer workflows into solutions, address technical objections, and collaborate with Product and Engineering. Build scalable sales engineering processes, technical content, evaluation frameworks, and operating models while supporting strategic automotive OEM and enterprise opportunities.

Lead technical direction for high-impact machine learning initiatives, from research and experimentation through production deployment. Build and fine-tune LLMs, document understanding systems, model-serving infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, and data feedback loops. Establish standards for model quality, calibration, reproducibility, and responsible deployment while mentoring ML engineers and influencing organizational roadmaps. The role requires hands-on software and ML engineering expertise, production-scale model development, and strong statistical judgment.

Manage the AI opportunity roadmap for Risk Services, prioritizing use cases, coordinating internal data science teams and external vendors, translating business needs into requirements, and supporting AI governance, compliance, explainability, auditability, implementation, adoption, and benefits realization. The role focuses on business outcomes and solution delivery rather than hands-on model development.

Own and develop SandboxAQ’s intellectual property function, including patent portfolio strategy, invention harvesting, prosecution, lifecycle management, outside counsel oversight, freedom-to-operate analyses, trademark clearance, and trade secret programs. Partner with scientists, engineers, and business teams to protect innovations, inform product strategy, support transactions, and build scalable IP processes in a fast-growing AI-focused company.

Design and lead large-scale machine learning and backend systems for advertiser growth, including budget pacing algorithms, GenAI creative generation infrastructure, marketplace experimentation, high-throughput billing pipelines, and real-time stream processing. Analyze marketplace and financial data, optimize advertiser performance, ensure billing accuracy and fault tolerance, lead multi-quarter technical roadmaps, and mentor senior engineers.

Lead research, architecture, and production deployment of large-scale algorithms for budget pacing, bid optimization, and marketplace balancing in Yahoo’s DSP. Apply control theory, optimization, and machine learning to real-time systems, while establishing AI-augmented research and engineering workflows. Own multi-quarter initiatives, define evaluation frameworks, guide technical strategy, collaborate with product and engineering leadership, mentor scientists and engineers, and communicate complex research and architectural decisions to executives.

Owns end-to-end development of datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and evaluations for coding agents and software engineering models. Leads engineers, researchers, QA professionals, and data creators; establishes quality processes, pipelines, validation, and review workflows. Collaborates directly with frontier AI labs, fine-tunes models, builds benchmarks, develops automation and internal tools, and supports customer-facing enablement. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, engineering management, operational execution, research, and industry thought leadership.

Lead the strategy, design, deployment, and scale-up of AI-powered health products across the Global South. Own product roadmaps, execution, government-system integration, stakeholder adoption, partnerships, grant development, and portfolio expansion. Collaborate with engineering, machine learning, program, and domain teams to deliver sustainable, measurable public-health impact.

Lead design and implementation of Power Platform solutions to modernize legacy civil engineering and logistics applications. Integrate and redesign workflows, support application and database modernization, build dashboards and automated workflows, implement automation and machine learning, and provide mission-critical sustainment support for capital project prioritization and supplemental appropriation programs. Onsite at Washington, D.C.

Performs advanced physical and remote insurance premium audits for business clients. Reviews business records, interviews owners and managers, investigates exposures, documents findings, prepares written audit reports, schedules assignments, communicates results, and submits completed work for quality review. The auditor must manage deadlines independently, correct returned audits, maintain accurate records, and use Microsoft Office applications. This remote role requires reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license, strong analytical and communication skills, and at least five years of premium insurance auditing experience.

Leads the company’s adoption of AI, analytics, automation, and business intelligence. Builds AI-powered workflows, Excel solutions, natural-language data interfaces, dashboards, forecasts, predictive analytics, and automated reporting using Snowflake, SQL, Tableau, and related tools. Partners across business functions to identify opportunities, improve data quality, automate repetitive processes, and deliver scalable decision-support solutions. Establishes responsible AI practices and advances an AI-first analytics culture.

Design and deploy machine learning models for financial document processing, optimize large language models, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and guide junior peers in a fast-paced environment.

Lead the Data Sources product roadmap for document parsing, fraud detection, and bank aggregation. Drive metrics (parse accuracy, fraud catch rate, connection success, SLAs), write specs, engage clients, mentor PMs/engineers, and represent the platform externally. Prioritize document types, extraction models, reliability, and scalability to improve conversion, client satisfaction, and operational efficiency across mortgage, tenant screening, and government use cases.

Lead end-to-end ML systems for identity verification, including document authenticity, face match, liveness and deepfake detection. Build GNN-based identity graphs, behavioral/device-intelligence models, vendor benchmarking/evaluation, and production enforcement. Mentor engineers and align ML architecture with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Security stakeholders.

The Director of AI will lead AI and machine learning initiatives, develop AI architecture for humanoid robots, oversee production-ready AI systems, and manage team growth and budget.

Develop and expand software products and platforms across backend, frontend, cloud, AI, and machine learning systems. Build efficient, reliable, and testable code; collaborate with business partners to launch features; influence product and engineering decisions; mentor team members; and help shape team culture and product vision in an agile environment.

Build and productionize customer-facing data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform. Own architecture and design decisions, develop end-to-end data pipelines and applications, integrate machine learning models, and guide enterprise customers through implementation and adoption. Collaborate with engineering, product, support, project managers, and customer stakeholders while delivering projects, documenting solutions, resolving issues, and creating reusable frameworks. Travel to customers approximately 20% of the time.

Lead Audit’s AI, product, and data science strategy to build enterprise-grade AI/analytics/automation products and a unified audit platform. Drive platform architecture, model lifecycle, governance, and adoption while growing a high-performing team. Partner with Technology, Enterprise AI, risk, and business stakeholders to enable continuous monitoring, automated evidence generation, improved risk detection, and measurable efficiency and insight gains across the audit lifecycle.

Leads the engineering strategy, architecture, development, operations, and continuous improvement of an enterprise agentic AI foundation. Establishes scalable engineering standards, operating models, governance, and reusable platform services that enable AI products and intelligent workflows. Partners with product, data, infrastructure, security, and business teams to modernize existing systems, guide cross-functional delivery, monitor operations, and communicate priorities, risks, and investment needs to senior leaders. Manages and develops product or engineering leaders while driving measurable business value.