Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Builds dashboards, applications, automations, ETL integrations, predictive risk models, and AI/ML solutions for unstructured data. Performs data normalization, visualization, business intelligence analysis, and risk assessment improvement. Recommends data storage and integration solutions, creates Power BI documentation, and applies SQL, R, Python, and other data science tools to federal systems and public-sector projects.

Manages project controls for major nuclear energy projects, overseeing planning, scheduling, budgets, cost management, risk mitigation, earned value management, reporting, change control, and continuous process improvement. Leads and mentors project controls professionals, ensures consistent methodology application, and communicates project performance to stakeholders and senior leadership. The role also encourages using AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to improve forecasting, scheduling, risk analysis, and reporting.

Lead CrowdStrike Finance & Accounting AI transformation: define operating model and governance, prioritize AI use cases, oversee POC-to-production delivery, drive enablement and change management, measure benefits realization, and report outcomes to executives.

Leads technical pre-sales and foundational implementation engagements for SailPoint SaaS solutions. Discovers customer requirements, maps them to product capabilities, delivers proof-of-value implementations, explains architecture and best practices, and collaborates with sales, product, services, and customer success teams. Develops AI and agentic technology solutions for demonstrations and customer problems, while serving as a technical and consultative advisor to customers, partners, and colleagues.

Lead technical customer engagements for strategic accounts, supporting sales, solution design, foundational implementations, and proof-of-value deployments. Discover requirements, map them to SailPoint solutions, educate customers on architecture and best practices, collaborate across sales, product, professional services, and customer success, and develop AI- and agentic-technology solutions for demonstrations and customer outcomes.

Forward Deployed Engineers support sales and customer engagements by discovering requirements, designing and implementing foundational SaaS solutions, delivering proof-of-value implementations, and educating customers on architecture and best practices. They collaborate with sales, product, professional services, and customer success teams; use AI and agentic technologies to solve customer problems; lead technical engagements; document requirements; and develop reusable demonstration solutions. The role may require up to 15% travel.

Forward Deployed Engineers support enterprise sales and customer engagements by discovering requirements, mapping them to SailPoint solutions, and delivering foundational implementations and proof-of-value projects. They provide technical leadership, explain architecture and best practices, collaborate across sales, product, services, and customer success teams, and develop AI- and agentic-technology solutions for demonstrations and customer problems. The role requires strong client communication, software implementation expertise, SaaS architecture knowledge, and familiarity with enterprise infrastructure and identity governance.

Leads a data science team focused on customer intelligence and personalization across digital products, apps, newsletters, and marketing channels. Develops lifetime value, segmentation, retention, recommendation, attribution, forecasting, and engagement models. Owns product funnel analytics and experimentation, including A/B testing and causal inference. Partners with Product, Marketing, Editorial, Data Operations, and Engineering to translate customer behavior into product improvements, measurable growth, and scalable data capabilities.

Analyze and characterize conversational audio data, identify underrepresented areas, and build active-learning and human-in-the-loop workflows. Develop representative benchmarks, automate model adaptation, and create reusable data analysis and scoring systems. Partner with research, engineering, and data teams to run experiments, improve models, organize data, and translate complex findings into measurable product improvements.

Lead GenAI strategy and implementation for government customers, serving as a technical advisor and hands-on builder. Identify high-value use cases, design architectures using the OpenAI API, develop prototypes, guide production deployments, manage customer and partner relationships, and provide feedback to product and research teams. The role also involves scaling deployment engineering practices, publishing technical resources, and collaborating across sales, engineering, research, and policy teams.

Lead the In-Vehicle Experience team at Samsara, focusing on transforming in-cab cameras into intelligent companions. Collaborate with engineering, prioritize features, and ensure client interactions highlight trust and connection. Conduct customer research and integrate AI and ML into product features.

Lead independent validation and ongoing monitoring of complex financial and analytics models, including ALM, loss forecasting, loan transition, corporate finance, and engagement models. Identify weaknesses, communicate findings, guide remediation, and strengthen model governance. Collaborate with Finance, Quantitative Research, Growth Analytics, Internal Audit, Internal Controls, Accounting, and Compliance to maintain Affirm’s model risk framework and address audit, regulatory, and examiner requests.

Drive revenue for predictive analytics consulting solutions by acquiring new enterprise customers and growing existing accounts. Responsibilities include market analysis, sales planning, pipeline forecasting, prospect and client relationship development, account management, proposal leadership, pricing collaboration, and partnership with analytics and marketing teams. The role requires technical sales experience with data analytics, machine learning, and AI solutions, particularly within insurance and financial services.

Partner with healthcare clients to design, prototype, and deploy production-grade AI/LLM solutions. Lead discovery, architecture, cloud integration, and delivery while troubleshooting distributed systems and driving measurable client outcomes.

Leads data and analytics transformation strategy for major client programs, defining roadmaps, use cases, architecture direction, and operating models. Advises senior stakeholders, facilitates strategy workshops, aligns programs to KPIs and value frameworks, supports governance and risk management, contributes to proposals and pre-sales, and mentors consulting and analytics teams.

Own Secret Detection and Vulnerability Research as a product: define strategy across prevention, detection, validation, revocation, and reporting; ship detection content and intelligence with measurable quality; drive adoption, retention, and revenue; partner with engineering, research, and Field; use AI to accelerate research and productization.

Source, develop, and close enterprise health system clients across a US territory. Build relationships with healthcare executives, launch and expand pilot programs, create account plans, meet revenue targets, and transition customers to Client Success. Collaborate with product, legal, marketing, support, and leadership; provide sales forecasts and pipeline reporting in HubSpot; influence the product roadmap; and represent Nabla at industry events.

Lead teams building computer vision and machine learning for AI dash cameras, managing model lifecycle, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and driving AI product development.

Lead Tilt’s product design function across consumer financial products. Set design vision and quality standards, manage and grow a team of six designers and one researcher, build research capabilities, influence product strategy, scale the design system, advocate for users, and partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and executive leadership. Drive AI-enabled design practices and ensure product experiences deliver measurable user and business impact.

The Principal Data Scientist will design, develop, and deploy machine learning models, innovating methodologies and collaborating across teams to enhance financial decision-making and risk management.

Serve as a customer-facing fraud and identity expert across pre-sales, onboarding, and expansion. Evaluate customer risk profiles, design fraud strategies and identity workflows, advise on risk mitigation and verification optimization, and coordinate technical, regulatory, and operational launch readiness. Lead implementation milestones, go-live planning, and cross-functional resolution of deployment bottlenecks while helping enterprise customers maximize adoption and long-term value.

Own the strategy, roadmap, and growth of Ottimate’s new product initiatives across procurement, budgeting, spend planning, and contract management. Lead customer discovery, validation, MVP development, launches, and portfolio metrics. Manage product managers and designers, oversee Design and UX, and partner with engineering, data science, sales, marketing, and customer success to deliver coherent, market-ready products.

Leads technical support for VA healthcare AI citizen developers, developing and validating supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning models. Builds synthetic healthcare data cohorts, designs secure cloud-based data science workflows, collaborates with federal stakeholders, interprets analytical results, mentors developers, and ensures model quality, documentation, privacy, governance, and regulatory compliance.

Build and scale production AI systems for Prophetic’s real estate intelligence platform. Responsibilities include developing agentic systems, data pipelines, inference workflows, evaluation benchmarks, geospatial processing, and machine learning applications across hundreds of millions of records. The role requires shipping reliable Python services, optimizing throughput and cost, integrating research into products, and collaborating with engineering and product teams.

Owns CareSource’s EDI platform vision, roadmap, backlog, and delivery. Translates healthcare, regulatory, and integration requirements into technical specifications; partners with engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps, trading partners, and business teams; coordinates releases and Agile delivery; monitors transaction performance, defects, SLAs, and platform telemetry; drives data quality, observability, automation, compliance, documentation, and continuous improvement across EDI capabilities.