Top Remote Machine Learning Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Lead DigitalOcean’s AI/ML security strategy, architecture, governance, and multi-year roadmap. Build security controls, guardrails, tooling, and automations; oversee AI red teaming, adversarial testing, threat modeling, and model monitoring. Review AI product architectures, guide high-risk decisions, establish responsible AI policies, and brief executives and the board on AI security risks. Serve as the internal expert and external representative on emerging AI security topics, including agentic AI, model supply chains, prompt injection, and data integrity.

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, lead teams in designing AI solutions, managing projects, and interfacing with clients while ensuring technical excellence and operational effectiveness.

Lead production-grade ML systems: build data pipelines, training and evaluation workflows, and scalable GPU inference. Fine-tune and adapt large models (LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO, distillation), optimize deployments for latency/cost/reliability, and collaborate with product and engineering to ship robust, observable model-driven features.

Design, build, and operate large-scale ML systems across data, training, evaluation, inference, and deployment. Lead GPU-optimized training and inference pipelines, ensure reliability, performance, safety, and seamless integration into products. Own production deployments, monitoring, and cross-functional best practices to drive measurable model improvements and efficient research-to-production cycles.

Founding Engineer responsible for building FilmoreAI’s production AI and data platform for construction equipment dealers. The role covers agent infrastructure, model routing, LLM extraction and reasoning, canonical data modeling, entity resolution, Python data pipelines, Azure cloud orchestration, evaluation, observability, and safe human-approved write-back. The engineer will work independently in an ambiguous startup environment and use agentic development tools to ship reliable systems with strong cost, latency, accuracy, and operational guardrails.

Lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of production AI and ML systems. Build high-throughput Python services and Databricks pipelines, support traditional ML and LLM applications, establish testing and deployment standards, and develop monitoring for quality, reliability, latency, throughput, and cost. Partner with product, research, and responsible AI teams on governance and release criteria. Provide architectural leadership, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and resolve complex technical dependencies.

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.

Build and deploy production AI agents, agentic workflows, and ML-enabled enterprise features within Java/Spring microservices. Implement evaluation, monitoring, guardrails, safety, testing, and observability for LLM applications. Collaborate with AI scientists, engineers, product managers, and technical specialists to productionize models, integrate RAG and tool calling, prototype solutions, and improve AI capabilities. The role also involves design reviews, agile planning, software quality ownership, and staying current with emerging AI technologies.

Build production machine learning benchmarks and evaluation systems for foundation models. Own backend infrastructure including data pipelines, execution environments, storage, and orchestration, as well as sandboxed environments for agentic evaluations. Partner with researchers, enterprise customers, and company leadership to scope and deliver technical solutions. Identify scalable evaluation patterns, communicate clearly, and operate effectively in an ambiguous, high-ownership startup environment.

Leads the technical direction and execution of a machine learning team focused on personalization, relevance, ranking, search, and advertising. Designs, scales, and operates production ML systems, including training, evaluation, deployment, and serving infrastructure. Partners with product, data, and engineering stakeholders, drives architecture and system design decisions, mentors engineers, and uses AI tools to accelerate development and explore LLM-powered features.

Design, build, deploy, and optimize scalable AI and machine learning systems using large datasets. Develop predictive models, recommendation systems, personalization engines, forecasting solutions, generative AI applications, and production ML pipelines. Collaborate with data, backend, and product teams to integrate models into applications, while monitoring performance, data quality, drift, reliability, and cost. Establish best practices for evaluation, experimentation, reproducibility, and deployment, and research emerging AI technologies.

Design, build, and deploy production-grade Generative AI applications and multi-agent solutions. Develop RAG pipelines, integrate commercial and open-source LLMs, fine-tune models, and build scalable Python APIs. Optimize applications for performance, latency, cost, reliability, and scalability. Implement monitoring, containerization, CI/CD, and cloud deployments while collaborating with engineering, architecture, AI/ML, and product teams.

Develop and maintain open-source Python frameworks and ML developer tools, architect scalable libraries, grow early-stage projects, build real-time streaming capabilities, integrate modern frontend technologies, and collaborate with open-source contributors and the broader developer community.

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.

Design, train, and deploy scalable ML models (generative, classification, regression). Define feature roadmaps, collaborate with engineering to implement code and APIs, adapt ML methods for distributed/GPU environments, and create evaluation/annotation programs for fine-tuning and performance measurement.

Own the research-to-production pipeline: harden training/evaluation workflows, build packaging/deployment tooling, design release gates, optimize inference and serving for latency/throughput, establish benchmarking and validation, and instrument feedback from production to accelerate research iteration.

Create end-to-end computer-use tasks for AI agents in Linux desktop environments. Design realistic multi-application scenarios, prepare files and instructions, write Python setup and automated scoring scripts, test tasks, and document them. The contract requires daily check-ins, rapid feedback, and availability throughout a three- to four-week engagement. Experience with AI tools, AI/ML projects, Linux VMs, Git, reinforcement learning environments, or computer-use benchmarks is relevant.

Develops and productionizes deep learning and machine learning perception models for robotics and recycling sortation. Responsibilities include experimenting with neural network architectures, designing computer vision solutions, conducting statistical experiments, deploying successful models, collaborating with data, modeling, and cloud infrastructure teams, and improving ML infrastructure.

Build and deploy scalable AI and machine learning products for clinical research, including patient recruitment, enrollment forecasting, and study feasibility. Develop ML models, LLM-powered agents, data pipelines, and MLOps infrastructure using cloud services and CI/CD automation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI into clinical research workflows, monitor model performance, and advance reliable, unbiased solutions that improve patient outcomes.

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.

The Staff Machine Learning Engineer will lead the development of AI solutions, ensure project delivery, and manage technical teams while interfacing with customers. Responsibilities include designing data pipelines, overseeing machine learning model development, and facilitating customer engagement.

Build and operate production machine learning training systems on Amazon SageMaker using AWS Trainium. The role focuses on optimizing PyTorch code for Trainium hardware, understanding NeuronCore compilation, diagnosing device-level issues, tuning distributed training for cost and throughput, and delivering production pipelines. The engineer will collaborate directly with client and internal teams in a forward-deployed engineering environment.

Lead end-to-end ML systems for identity verification, including document authenticity, face match, liveness and deepfake detection. Build GNN-based identity graphs, behavioral/device-intelligence models, vendor benchmarking/evaluation, and production enforcement. Mentor engineers and align ML architecture with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Security stakeholders.

Own and improve Quora’s second-phase ranking models for feed and digest experiences. Build end-to-end machine learning systems covering data pipelines, candidate extraction, feature engineering, model training, and production integration. Identify new product applications for machine learning, develop efficient algorithms with other ML engineers, and contribute methodologies for large-scale recommendation systems.

Own the production runtime for Phare’s machine learning stack by deploying, serving, and scaling models across GPU inference endpoints and batch or streaming workflows. Build progressive delivery pipelines, automated rollbacks, observability, alerting, and incident response processes. Manage model registries, retraining lifecycles, versioning, data lineage, security controls, and reproducible releases using Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD.