Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Washington, DC

Build and deploy machine learning models that personalize insurance products, analyze product data, design experiments, and measure model impact. The role owns the full data science lifecycle, including data wrangling, production coding, model monitoring, retraining, and experimentation. Responsibilities also include cross-functional collaboration, code reviews, mentoring data scientists, and improving platform practices.

Leads client-facing manufacturing and automotive analytics, data, AI, and digital transformation engagements. Responsibilities include executive stakeholder management, consulting, solution design, account growth, proposal development, commercial oversight, program governance, delivery leadership, and capability building. The role develops transformation roadmaps, modernizes data platforms, guides AI and analytics use cases, manages strategic portfolios up to $10M–$15M annually, and mentors multidisciplinary teams.

Lead research into novel AI architectures, learning algorithms, reasoning, knowledge representation, and evaluation methodologies. Define and execute ambitious research programs, design experiments, develop large-scale content evaluation systems, mentor research engineers, and communicate findings through technical publications. The role combines scientific leadership with hands-on innovation focused on language models, factuality, evidence quality, source reliability, and trustworthy AI systems.

Conduct advanced research spanning RF communications, digital signal processing, compressive sensing, machine learning, and resilient network systems. Develop and deploy ML pipelines for RF and time-series data using modern frameworks and MLOps practices. Lead projects from concept through demonstration, publish technical findings, and communicate results to stakeholders. Work may support 5G, non-terrestrial networks, cybersecurity, electronic warfare, SIGINT, radar, and other national security applications.

Leads enterprise field intelligence and portfolio prioritization across pharmaceutical therapeutic areas. Owns targeting, Next Best Action, field orchestration, roadmap governance, capability development, standards, and operating-model transformation. The role aligns cross-functional teams, drives scalable data- and AI-enabled solutions, improves customer engagement, and supports strategic decision-making across field teams and channels.

Lead technical pre-sales for large Oil, Gas & Energy accounts, define and implement Databricks-based data and ML/AI strategies, build technical champions, mentor teammates, and drive enterprise adoption through technical leadership and value selling.

Own G2’s research agenda for evaluating AI agents in realistic business workflows. Design benchmarks, task environments, scoring systems, automated and human grading methods, and reliability analyses. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ship evaluation capabilities, communicate findings to customers and researchers, mentor technical teams, and establish repeatable standards. The role requires hands-on LLM and agent evaluation experience, original research, statistical judgment, product delivery, and technical leadership.

Lead product strategy, roadmap execution, and measurable outcomes for an AI-enabled refinance title decisioning platform. Translate strategy into requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria; prioritize initiatives against OKRs; and partner with engineering, data science, operations, sales, and marketing. Monitor product health, accuracy, costs, service levels, and performance through metrics and dashboards. Manage stakeholders, customer onboarding, continuous improvement, and automation opportunities across a regulated real estate workflow.

Own and scale Tilt’s credit card acquisition through affiliate partnerships, paid search, and paid social. Lead channel strategy, partner launches, targeting, experimentation, and optimization while collaborating with credit, data science, product, engineering, and marketing. Use SQL and Python to evaluate funnel performance, unit economics, approvals, activation, spend, and credit outcomes. Shape acquisition policies and application experiences to drive profitable growth.

Designs, deploys, and maintains AI and machine learning solutions, including generative AI, LLM, RAG, and conversational AI applications. Owns agentic engineering infrastructure, application guardrails for patient-care workflows, data pipelines, analytics, model governance, monitoring, and cloud deployment. Provides architectural leadership, improves engineering throughput, ensures privacy and compliance, and translates business needs into scalable AI solutions.

Lead product positioning, go-to-market strategy, launches, customer insights, competitive intelligence, messaging, sales enablement, and thought leadership for AI-driven cybersecurity and authentication products. Translate complex AI and machine learning technologies for technical and business audiences, manage marketing plans and budgets, support customer case studies, and mentor a high-performing product marketing team. Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and executive leadership.

Coordinates strategic AI programs across engineering, product, legal, risk, compliance, security, HR, and business teams. Develops execution plans, governance frameworks, status reporting, risk registers, and executive communications. Supports AI platform and agent deployment initiatives, AI policy development, enterprise training, stakeholder alignment, and adoption. Requires strong program management, AI technology understanding, organizational skills, and experience managing complex cross-functional initiatives.

Leads the scientific direction and technical roadmap for a permanent magnet research vertical. Responsibilities include guiding computational materials discovery and AI modeling, developing manufacturable magnet formulations, building and mentoring multidisciplinary teams, managing intellectual property, coordinating national laboratory and industry partnerships, and connecting simulation with experimental validation. The role also supports commercial licensing, external scientific communications, publications, and federally funded research programs.

Own the strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for AI security capabilities across the Pathfinder platform. Serve as the internal expert on agentic AI threats, identity security, and emerging attack techniques. Define requirements for securing AI agents, MCP servers, and orchestration frameworks; conduct market and competitive research; lead design partner programs; coordinate cross-portfolio product work; and support analyst, customer, marketing, and pre-sales engagements.

Owns a portfolio of NovaOS capabilities from concept through delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement. Manages backlogs, roadmaps, prioritization, requirements, user stories, release planning, and product metrics. Partners with stakeholders, Engineering, AI, UX, Data Science, and Architecture teams to deliver enterprise AI-enabled products aligned with governance, Responsible AI, and business objectives.

Own and improve ClickUp’s voice AI systems, including real-time speech-to-text, audio processing, context-aware transcription, LLM post-processing, mention resolution, formatting, and voice-to-action workflows. Evaluate and integrate ASR models for accuracy, latency, and cost, while collaborating across product and platform teams to deliver voice and multimodal assistant features across desktop, mobile, web, and browser extension products.

Drive new business revenue across the Western Territory by selling complex healthcare technology and services, including AI-enabled EHR and revenue cycle management solutions. Manage the complete enterprise sales cycle from prospecting, discovery, demonstrations, proposals, negotiations, and closing through accurate forecasting and CRM updates. Build relationships with healthcare decision-makers, manage RFPs, develop territory plans, and travel 50–75% of the time.

Leads enterprise AI solution strategy, architecture, pre-sales, and implementation delivery for customers across the Americas. Defines AI use cases, validates feasibility, designs scalable architectures, guides Professional Services teams, and resolves complex technical challenges. Develops AI service offerings, methodologies, reusable assets, and enablement programs while mentoring architects, consultants, and project leaders. Requires deep experience with enterprise transformations, LLMs, multi-agent systems, generative AI, data architecture, cloud platforms, and production AI deployments.

Own enterprise technical deployment roadmaps, milestones, acceptance criteria, governance, and post-launch adoption. Coordinate Product, Engineering, Delivery, Support, and Sales teams to resolve blockers, manage resources, map workflows, track KPIs, and demonstrate ROI. Partner with account executives on technical expansion opportunities and establish scalable deployment playbooks, PMO templates, and integration patterns.

Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Root’s pricing platform and machine learning infrastructure. Lead engineering and partner with data science, actuarial, and engineering teams to improve pricing workflows, model development, deployment, monitoring, and regulatory operations. Drive self-service tooling, LLM-enabled data science workflows, platform reliability, and nationwide expansion while translating business needs into product requirements and prioritized investments.

Own technical evaluations, deployments, and production integrations for major government and enterprise customers. Build Python, SQL, agents, tools, and REST integrations within customer environments; lead proofs of concept, deployments, executive briefings, and technical account relationships. Triage bespoke versus reusable capabilities, influence the product roadmap, and review other engineers’ work. The role requires strong cloud, containerization, data, communication, and ambiguous problem-solving skills.

Design and develop scalable backend systems using Kotlin, Micronaut, and Spring. Build RESTful APIs, optimize PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch databases, implement RabbitMQ-based asynchronous processing, integrate AI tools, and create automated tests. Deploy and monitor services on GCP using Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Collaborate cross-functionally, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot performance issues, and deliver reliable backend products.

Design, develop, and deploy cloud applications in a secure Army cloud environment. Modernize a large-scale document management and search platform, optimize indexing and metadata for over 100 million documents, integrate generative AI and machine learning, and improve scalability. Responsibilities also include cloud security controls, system administration, DevSecOps, CI/CD, database optimization, user interface development, maintenance, and support within a hybrid government environment.

Own the technical side of deal progression for airline deployments: qualify opportunities, run demos and POCs, author integration and deployment architectures (PSS, APIs, data feeds, DNS, identity, networking), respond to RFPs/security questionnaires, scope SOWs and NFRs, and build reusable demo/reference assets to drive adoption and expansion while liaising between sales, engineering, and customers.

Leads IT and UiPath RPA consulting for federal financial and acquisition systems. Responsibilities include PMO leadership, RPA design and implementation, user support, troubleshooting, requirements gathering, process mapping, business process re-engineering, cloud and network integration, cybersecurity documentation, compliance, change management, and stakeholder engagement. The role also supports OCR, machine learning, NLP, APIs, and database integrations across on-premises and AWS environments, including unclassified and SCI networks.