Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Designs, evaluates, and improves ranking and recommendation systems through experimentation, feature engineering, and production machine learning. Builds reliable data and feature pipelines, incorporates multimodal signals, manages uncertainty, calibration, and model drift, and monitors system performance. Partners cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Business, and Analytics to deliver scalable, latency-sensitive solutions with measurable business impact.

Lead architecture and development of reliable, safety-critical software for nuclear energy systems. Provide technical leadership, integrate software with hardware and control systems, ensure quality and regulatory compliance, optimize performance, troubleshoot complex issues, and maintain thorough documentation.

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will develop core ML models, manage data pipelines, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable ML solutions.

Design, implement, and optimize AI-powered solutions to support financial compliance and controls. Monitor GAAP/IFRS adherence, automate controls and reporting, support internal/external audits, and manage complex accounting areas like revenue recognition and lease accounting while collaborating with finance, audit, and technology teams.

Contract role combining actuarial science, risk management, and AI to improve portfolio performance. Responsibilities include loss and combined ratio analysis, portfolio risk assessment, catastrophe and exposure modeling, stress testing, and integrating ML to enhance pricing, reserving, and risk selection while collaborating with underwriting, finance, and product teams.

Senior product engineer owning end-to-end product surfaces for a computer vision platform. Ship features from idea to production, prioritize roadmap, design UX details, integrate APIs, improve annotation and model-assisted labeling, and collaborate with engineering and users to drive product impact.

Design, develop, and evaluate conversational AI agents and generative AI products. Collaborate with AI scientists, ML engineers, and Responsible AI/Model Validation teams to ensure state-of-the-art, ethical solutions and support deployment and integration of conversational systems.

As the Engineering Lead, you will guide product strategy, manage and mentor engineers, and ensure successful execution in product areas, focusing on machine learning and technical expertise across teams.

The Hyperscalers and Commercial Lead will develop technology-driven business strategies, drive customer adoption, and manage end-to-end sales processes while working closely with cross-functional teams.

The role involves researching, developing, and implementing AI solutions, optimizing models, integrating AI into workflows, and collaborating with teams to enhance business efficiency.

Lead pre-sales technical engagements for Conversational and Generative AI solutions, collaborate across teams, and design value-driven demos for enterprise customers.

The Principal Architect will lead AI/ML solutions, mentor teams, and collaborate with clients to design and deliver scalable systems using Google Cloud technologies, ensuring compliance with ethical standards.

Manage and report project cost performance, establish and maintain cost baselines, monitor contractors, perform trend and risk analysis, produce dashboards and AI-driven forecasts, and collaborate across project teams to ensure alignment with cost and cash-flow targets.

The Senior Machine Learning Researcher will design experiments, research new algorithms, and collaborate on deploying models for computer vision and robotics applications.

Leads enterprise sales strategy and revenue growth for AI-powered eDiscovery, legal technology, compliance, analytics, and data intelligence solutions. Builds pipelines, manages complex consultative sales cycles, develops executive client relationships, expands strategic accounts, and positions responsible AI adoption. Partners with product, operations, legal, security, marketing, and executive teams on solution development, pricing, contracts, implementation, and market expansion across corporations, law firms, government, and regulated industries.

As an AI Applications Engineer, you will bridge AI research and implementation, driving experiments, building infrastructure, and releasing products to improve user experience and metrics.

Lead Elastic’s strategy, vision, and multi-quarter roadmap for vector databases, embedding and reranking models, vector indexing, semantic ingestion, and search capabilities. Conduct market and competitive research, define product metrics, prioritize features, and partner closely with engineering, cloud, and applied research teams. Guide technical trade-offs involving recall, latency, index size, ingestion throughput, model lifecycle, and total cost of ownership across serverless and self-managed deployments.

Own the product strategy, roadmap, team, customer relationships, and P&L for Teamworks’ Coaching, Player Personnel, Recruiting, and Intelligence portfolio. Lead AI strategy across sports markets, integrate acquired products, align engineering, design, data science, marketing, and sales, and convert proprietary sports data into AI-powered workflows. Represent the business with teams, leagues, and partners while driving multi-market growth and product execution.

Leads technical sales and executive evangelism for Verint’s Open CCaaS and CX Automation platform. Acts as a trusted advisor to C-suite customers, articulating ROI, AI, data science, and platform capabilities. Partners with Product, Sales, Solutions, Services, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to drive adoption, expansion, thought leadership, and opportunity closure. Requires deep contact center operations experience, strong data architecture knowledge, executive communication skills, and extensive travel.

As an ML Ops Infrastructure Engineer, you will design CI/CD pipelines for ML, maintain deployment systems, and implement monitoring while collaborating with research teams to ensure model quality and performance.

Lead a forward‑deployed AI solutions team to translate enterprise AI capabilities into business outcomes. Partner with executives to co‑design and deliver priority use cases, drive AI productivity tool adoption, establish repeatable AI solution patterns, and feed learnings back into the AI platform and governance. Balance rapid delivery with enterprise rigor while coaching teams and managing stakeholders.

Lead product analytics to improve user growth, engagement, retention, and revenue. Design and analyze A/B and multivariate experiments, perform funnel/cohort analyses, maintain KPIs and dashboards, ensure event tracking, leverage ML and AI tools for advanced analyses, and translate insights into product recommendations across cross-functional teams.

Lead complex, cross-functional AI programs end-to-end: translate strategy into integrated plans, drive multi-team execution, mitigate risks (data, model, compliance), apply ML lifecycle practices, use Agile/kanban methods, manage budgets/vendors, communicate to senior stakeholders, and mentor other program managers to improve AI program standards.

Designs and operates production multi-agent AI systems, LLM workflows, scoring and optimization algorithms, and closed-loop autonomous processes. Responsibilities include AI model evaluation, production monitoring, governance, third-party AI integration, federated data retrieval, and identifying patentable inventions. The role requires deep machine learning expertise, algorithm development, and deployment experience across complex operational environments.

Leads Mercury’s cross-line AI/ML research capability across insurance products. Responsibilities include setting strategy, building a research tooling team, modernizing workflows, developing model monitoring and AI infrastructure, establishing responsible AI guardrails, partnering across technology and data science teams, driving adoption, and coaching talent. The role requires strong quantitative, insurance analytics, Python, machine learning, generative AI, and LLM evaluation expertise, along with substantial people and cross-functional leadership experience.