Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

The Sr. Machine Learning Engineer will develop and deploy ML solutions for healthcare, manage data pipelines, and work with large datasets to enhance healthcare delivery.

As a Staff Applied ML Scientist, you will develop and maintain fraud detection models, conduct research on fraud types, and collaborate across teams to drive product development and real-time decision-making.

As a Senior Applied ML Scientist, you'll develop fraud detection models, research new fraud types, and write production code while collaborating across teams to enhance SentiLink's identity verification solutions.

Leads architecture and development of production-grade mapping and localization ML systems for autonomous vehicles. Designs neural models for detection, segmentation, tracking, depth estimation, 3D reconstruction, and semantic mapping; owns data strategy, evaluation, deployment, and fleet validation. Mentors engineers, drives technical roadmaps, collaborates cross-functionally, and advances vectorized HD mapping, foundation models, and real-time optimization.

Lead and manage AI-focused consulting engagements: define hypotheses, oversee analytics and data collection, translate client needs into technical requirements, support ML/generative AI solution delivery from proof-of-concept to production, build executive relationships, and coach consultants to deliver measurable business impact.

Lead client engagements for telco and AI initiatives: manage project delivery, coach teams, drive commercial relationships, identify business development opportunities, and apply quantitative analysis (SQL/Python) and AI capabilities to deliver strategic recommendations.

Develop and optimize large-scale advertising ranking models for CTR and CVR prediction, calibration, user representations, and sequence modeling. Own machine learning systems end to end, including data pipelines, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, and maintenance. Collaborate with platform, product, data science, and engineering teams to run experiments and improve advertiser outcomes, revenue, and user relevance. Apply deep learning and recommendation techniques within production latency, reliability, and cost constraints.

Lead design, execution, and optimization of scaled lifecycle campaigns across email and in-product channels. Use marketing automation, behavioral data, and ML techniques to personalize journeys, drive activation, revenue, retention, and cross-sell. Analyze performance, generate insights, and collaborate with Growth, Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Sales, and Marketing stakeholders.

Conduct machine learning research operations using existing infrastructure. Characterize neural network quality, failure modes, and edge cases; coordinate experiments with researchers; manage concurrent experiments and deadlines; review results; recommend theoretical or process improvements; and prepare technical reports communicating qualitative and quantitative findings.

The Senior Product Manager will set product direction, own the development lifecycle, collaborate with teams, and ensure high-quality outputs. This role requires strong opinions on product quality and customer insights.

The Enterprise Account Executive drives revenue through high-value contracts, managing complex sales processes and relationships with executive stakeholders in financial services.

Lead the Decision Science function, designing ML models, overseeing experimentation frameworks, and ensuring model adoption across the company, driving operational and commercial improvements.

Develops AI/ML prototypes, APIs, microservices, integrations, and lightweight user interfaces for federal and DoD-aligned mission workflows. The role integrates and optimizes machine learning models for dashboards and applications, supports data ingestion and preprocessing, validates performance, and helps transition models into production. Collaboration with data scientists, architects, developers, PMO leadership, and cybersecurity teams is required. The position requires five years of relevant experience, a bachelor’s degree, ITIL v4 Foundation certification, and Public Trust or active Secret clearance.

Leads the architecture, development, deployment, and optimization of enterprise machine learning solutions. Responsibilities include designing scalable ML systems, developing predictive models, supporting MLOps and model lifecycle management, improving data quality and feature engineering, implementing governance and validation frameworks, and mentoring technical teams. The role also contributes to AI strategy, innovation initiatives, responsible AI practices, and organizational modernization.

Partner with a retained search firm to place software engineers and quant developers at top hedge funds. Provide candidate flow from your network; firm supplies clients, process, and fees. Remote, commission-only role with placement and pipeline incentives. Apply with placement examples, outreach metrics, and a candidate submission.

Build, ship, and own end-to-end ML models for vendor matching, order routing, and supply-chain optimization. Partner with data engineering to productionize models, quantify impact, document work, and implement decision logic components toward agentic AI in a fast-moving healthcare startup environment.

The Staff Product Manager will define product strategy, lead the product lifecycle, collaborate across teams, and drive innovation in claims processing software.

The Director of System Safety oversees safety functions for autonomous vehicles, managing safety cases, deployment plans, and regulatory relationships while leading a multi-disciplinary safety team.

Lead development of time-series and econometric models (ARIMA, VAR, state-space, WLS, panel data) and Bayesian probabilistic frameworks. Use causal inference and stochastic processes to produce actionable insights, work with large datasets on Databricks, communicate results to stakeholders, and mentor junior team members.

Own a product area of the Content Authoring Platform end-to-end: set vision and roadmap, run continuous discovery, define and measure outcomes, partner with engineering and design to deliver features, evaluate and apply AI capabilities prudently, mentor peers, and communicate strategy and trade-offs to stakeholders.

Lead client-facing full-stack Java development, mentor teams, design solutions, promote engineering best practices (Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, TDD), and deliver enterprise software using modern cloud, container, and JS frameworks.

Lead end-to-end data science work: exploratory and statistical analysis, data engineering, ML model development (recommendation engines, predictive systems), data visualization (Power BI, Tableau), and multi-int large-data analytics to support defense programs and produce actionable intelligence products.

Build and operate production machine learning systems focused on multilingual NLP, including entity linking, classification, event extraction, deduplication, and narrative analysis. Develop GPU-accelerated workflows, fine-tune transformer models, and create LLM features such as RAG pipelines and agents on AWS Bedrock. Establish evaluation frameworks, integrate ML services into Django and event-driven platforms, lead technical architecture discussions, and mentor team members.

Design and implement scalable backend and distributed systems for a marketing intelligence platform. Build near-real-time ingestion and processing, scale an incrementality/experimentation product, integrate AI-powered workflows, improve data ingestion/exports and connection-state systems, and contribute frontend components to deliver end-to-end product experiences.

Lead a Big Data Engineering team to deliver production-grade ETL and data pipelines at scale. Own team execution, code quality, morale, and roadmap execution with product managers. Remove roadblocks, coach and develop engineers, promote engineering best practices, and enable data-driven and AI-powered product features (personalization, recommendations, search, ranking, matching).