Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Austin, TX

Design and deploy production recommendation and retrieval engines, build data orchestration pipelines for multiple modalities, implement agentic workflow frameworks, and prototype, optimize, and scale models with monitoring, governance, and low-latency SLAs.

Leads and develops a perception and machine learning engineering team building computer vision, sensor fusion, tracking, detection, and scene-understanding capabilities for autonomous systems. Owns roadmap planning, technical decisions, delivery, model development and deployment workflows, field readiness, hiring, performance management, and cross-functional execution with autonomy, embedded, data, hardware, product, programs, and field operations teams.

Design, build, and maintain optimization technology, full-stack systems, and data-intensive scheduling infrastructure. Improve optimization algorithms using linear optimization, machine learning, and generative AI. Lead complex technical initiatives, establish testing and observability, support scalable operations, troubleshoot customer issues, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor engineers while partnering closely with product and engineering teams.

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.

Lead development and deployment of predictive and ML models for credit risk, collections, and operations. Mentor data scientists, promote MLOps and modern tools, present insights to stakeholders, and drive experimentation with techniques such as causal inference and GenAI.

Technical lead for end-to-end ML and CV pipelines to reconstruct, validate, and maintain map primitives from multi-modal vehicle sensor data. Architect scalable offline and production map reconstruction systems, define technical strategy, drive cross-functional integration, mentor senior engineers, and ensure robustness, safety, and operational scalability for national-scale mapping.

Develop and deploy machine learning models and production software for multi-object tracking in autonomous trucks. Responsibilities include sensor fusion across camera, LiDAR, and radar; scalable PyTorch training workflows; tracking algorithm development; large-scale data analysis; C++ and Python engineering; safety and validation strategy; architecture decisions; and cross-functional collaboration. The role also provides technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and engineering best practices.

Build scalable evaluation, introspection, visualization, and metrics tools for autonomous vehicle machine learning models. Develop workflows processing billions of examples and connect offline evaluation with data, training, simulation, and launch decisions. Collaborate with modeling, data, infrastructure, and validation teams to improve model performance, safety, reliability, and development speed. Responsibilities include software design, implementation, maintenance, code reviews, and production tooling across backend, frontend, and data infrastructure.

Lead the development of machine learning systems for Cedar Pay's Personalization Engine, manage ML engineers, and ensure ML model effectiveness.

Designs, builds, and operationalizes enterprise AI, generative AI, machine learning, and agentic AI solutions. Develops integrations, orchestration services, reusable tooling, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and governance controls. Partners with architecture, platform, data, and product teams to deliver scalable, secure, compliant AI capabilities across the organization.

Design, train, deploy, monitor, and optimize speech and NLP models for a voice-agent platform. Build MLOps pipelines, APIs, and inference services while developing Android and iOS applications that integrate AI, voice, real-time communication, and backend services. Create frontend prototypes and dashboards, conduct model experiments, evaluate vendors, optimize performance, document systems, and maintain engineering quality across collaborative teams.

Build and operate production machine learning systems for Airbnb Payments, including LLM agents, real-time fraud detection, anomaly detection, personalization, and checkout optimization. Design, train, deploy, monitor, and continuously improve batch and streaming AI applications at global scale. Partner with product, engineering, operations, and data science teams, establish model governance and testing standards, and mentor engineers.

Own the full machine learning lifecycle for search ranking and retrieval, including model training, deployment, serving, feature pipelines, evaluation frameworks, hybrid lexical-vector retrieval, large-scale embedding inference, query understanding, and permissions-aware multi-tenant search. Collaborate with infrastructure, AI, and backend teams to improve search relevance across ClickUp’s platform.

Build and operate production retrieval-augmented generation systems, including embeddings, vector retrieval, grounded language-model generation, citation validation, prompt and schema design, model packaging, serving, rollback, and telemetry. Develop bounded model assistance for narrative extraction with provenance and rule-context tracking. Maintain resilient serving paths in secure government cloud environments, including restricted or air-gapped deployments.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and operation of scalable machine learning solutions and high-performance microservices. Builds real-time inference systems using Triton and TensorRT, guides distributed cloud architectures, participates hands-on in coding and reviews, and mentors engineers. Drives technical strategy, operational excellence, system resilience, and business-wide innovation across generative AI, graph machine learning, and big data initiatives.

Lead exploration and application of large language models and generative AI for enterprise contact-center automation. Translate research into high-performing, deployable ML systems; contribute across experimentation, implementation, and deployment; collaborate with engineering and product teams; optimize performance; and help shape team strategy, innovation, and professional growth.

Lead exploration and application of large language models and generative AI, translate research into deployable ML systems, and guide strategic direction. Develop solutions across experimentation, implementation, and deployment while collaborating with engineering and product teams to optimize performance and customer outcomes in contact center automation.

Lead the end-to-end ML execution: build and operate data pipelines, training and evaluation systems, and scalable inference. Fine-tune and optimize large models (LoRA/QLoRA/SFT/DPO/distillation), ensure GPU efficiency, monitor production quality, collaborate with product and application engineering, and rapidly ship reliable, safe ML solutions that translate research into production.

Design, productionize, and scale machine learning and optimization models, pipelines, libraries, and deployment platforms. Partner with data scientists, engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to deliver ML capabilities, personalization systems, and reusable end-to-end workflows. Establish ML engineering best practices, troubleshoot data pipelines, mentor junior professionals, and help define BetterHelp’s ML platform strategy.

Design and productionize machine learning, deep learning, LLM, personalization, recommendation, search, and retrieval systems. Collaborate with product, engineering, and analytics teams to deploy AI solutions that improve customer experiences, business growth, and operational efficiency. The role requires driving projects from ideation through deployment and delivering measurable business impact in a fast-moving fintech environment.

Lead the development, fine-tuning, deployment, and optimization of machine learning solutions involving LLMs, vision models, and NLP for healthcare applications. Build production-grade models and pipelines, support scalable GPU and TPU training, validate performance and compliance, collaborate with healthcare and product teams, and mentor junior engineers. The role also requires documenting technical approaches and applying MLOps and LLMOps practices in regulated environments.

Own the production lifecycle for machine learning and LLM-backed systems, including training and post-training pipelines, inference serving, model releases, monitoring, retrieval infrastructure, and cost and latency optimization. Partner with AI researchers and engineering teams to move prototypes into reliable production capabilities across customer tenants. Develop ETL and GraphQL features, enforce tenant isolation, and support deployments in regulated or customer-controlled environments.

Designs, deploys, and scales production AI agents and agentic workflows within enterprise Java and Spring applications. Establishes evaluation, monitoring, guardrail, safety, testing, observability, deployment, and operational standards for LLM systems. Leads architectural decisions across AI services and microservices, productionizes models, evaluates emerging technologies, mentors engineers, and influences technical strategy across teams.

Lead technical direction for high-impact machine learning initiatives, from research and experimentation through production deployment. Build and fine-tune LLMs, document understanding systems, model-serving infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, and data feedback loops. Establish standards for model quality, calibration, reproducibility, and responsible deployment while mentoring ML engineers and influencing organizational roadmaps. The role requires hands-on software and ML engineering expertise, production-scale model development, and strong statistical judgment.

Owns end-to-end development of datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and evaluations for coding agents and software engineering models. Leads engineers, researchers, QA professionals, and data creators; establishes quality processes, pipelines, validation, and review workflows. Collaborates directly with frontier AI labs, fine-tunes models, builds benchmarks, develops automation and internal tools, and supports customer-facing enablement. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, engineering management, operational execution, research, and industry thought leadership.