Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Build, deploy, and maintain production-grade ML systems across the full model lifecycle. Translate business goals into ML solutions, monitor model performance and drift, perform analyses and experiments, and collaborate with data engineers, product, and domain experts to improve risk assessment and underwriting outcomes.

Lead relevance evaluation and quality improvements by fine-tuning LLMs, building low-latency reranking and filtering systems, scaling LLM deployments, creating automated monitoring pipelines and agentic insights, and validating impact via A/B tests while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Own end-to-end production ML systems for search, recommendations, and ranking: architecture, training pipelines, inference, deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining. Partner with data, product, and backend teams to ship reliable, low-latency ML-driven product experiences and set standards for ML infrastructure and model health.

Lead and grow a team of ML engineers building production ML systems for Fetch's Ad Platform. Translate product strategy into roadmaps, guide design and implementation of models for ranking, targeting, bidding and forecasting, set metrics and experimentation, enforce architectural and operational standards, manage trade-offs across performance and reliability, and drive cross-functional alignment to improve advertiser and member outcomes.

Lead and grow a distributed ML engineering team that runs experiments, ships production models, and partners with Risk and platform teams. Balance research bets and delivery, enforce rigorous evaluation and reproducibility, mentor engineers, own roadmap trade-offs, and represent results to stakeholders while improving model performance and production reliability.

The role involves designing, training, and evaluating ML models, optimizing performance, and collaborating with teams to implement AI technologies in products.

Lead development of internal Python SDKs and agentic AI workflows, build scalable FastAPI ML services, maintain CI/CD with Jenkins/GitLab Runners, and use Galileo for model evaluation and observability to productionize autonomous systems.

Build and maintain backend services and infrastructure for ML and generative AI features. Develop scalable, resilient, high-performance Python services (async frameworks, streaming), deploy to Kubernetes, integrate RAG and LLM orchestration, instrument LLM observability, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver production-ready AI products.

The Senior Consultant in AI will design, build, and deliver AI/ML solutions on Azure, engage with clients, and develop project components independently.

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will manage the full ML lifecycle, collaborating with teams to develop scalable systems that improve product decisions and empower monetization strategies.

Lead design, deployment, and monitoring of predictive models for credit risk, collections, and operations. Drive adoption of modern ML and MLOps, mentor data scientists, define strategic roadmap, advise senior leadership, and ensure model governance and regulatory compliance.

Lead the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle for AI products, managing data pipelines and model development to optimize performance and accuracy in production.

As a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Root, you'll build scalable ML systems, partner with data scientists, and improve operational practices for customer lifetime value modeling.

The Machine Learning Engineer will execute the full ML lifecycle, collaborating on model implementation and improving customer experiences through data-driven insights.

Lead research on humanistic AI for autonomous systems. Collaborate with teams, design experiments, and publish findings in top-tier publications.

Design, build, and ship AI-powered observability features using LLMs and agentic workflows. Rapidly prototype, iterate with real users, integrate AI into alerting, runbooks, and developer workflows, and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and production-ready while collaborating cross-functionally.

Lead and scale Vibrant's data science, ML, and AI function: set strategy and governance, oversee applied research and production ML (especially NLP), ensure HIPAA-compliant deployments, partner with execs and engineering, recruit and mentor teams, and deliver measurable outcomes for crisis services and enterprise initiatives.

Lead a Machine Learning engineering team owning mission, execution, morale, and code quality. Partner with product to deliver roadmap, remove roadblocks, improve processes, coach and grow engineers, and drive development, deployment, and innovation of ML models for recommender, search, and matching systems.

Design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art deep learning models for multimodal and satellite imagery; own ML architecture, infrastructure, model registries, and inference services; mentor the team, translate product vision into technical roadmaps, and integrate research into production-ready, scalable geospatial AI systems.

Lead end-to-end architecture and delivery of production ML and generative AI platforms on Azure and Microsoft Fabric. Define MLOps, CI/CD, governance, observability, retrieval/LLM patterns, security, cost controls, and operational handoff. Work with data scientists and engineers to translate requirements, defend tradeoffs, and ensure systems run unattended in production.

Design, optimize, and deploy ML/LLM capabilities for resource-constrained edge environments. Build efficient inference pipelines, RAG/semantic search, distributed inference orchestration, model optimization (quantization/pruning/distillation), evaluation frameworks, monitoring, and production integration. Support multimodal/sensor data, documentation, demos, and responsible AI/governance.

Design and improve ML training frameworks, modularize experiments, adapt fire-hazard detection algorithms for varied electrical environments, build scalable pipelines for high-frequency sensor data, and develop dashboards and tooling to monitor model performance and drift while collaborating across product, data science, and fire safety teams.

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy ML models for underwriting at Stripe Capital, ensuring performance while collaborating with multiple teams.

Translate cutting-edge ML and physics research into production-grade scientific code, architect and scale large-scale simulation and training pipelines on GPU infrastructure, optimize hardware-level performance, and support models throughout the product lifecycle to accelerate in silico drug and materials discovery.

Build and re-architect Shipt's LLM-native search stack including retrieval and ranking systems. Design multi-task and multi-objective models, integrate personalization signals, develop hybrid dense/sparse retrieval, and apply generative retrieval and query expansion. Analyze search data, report findings to leadership, and partner with senior scientists and ML engineers to improve relevance, revenue trade-offs, and operational metrics.