Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Boston, MA

Develop and operate production ML and AI systems powering patient experiences such as matching, ranking, recommendations, onboarding, and personalization. Build reusable ML infrastructure, pipelines, evaluation, observability, and model-serving capabilities. Provide technical leadership across the ML lifecycle, guide architecture, evaluate custom versus foundation-model approaches, and partner with ML and Patient Engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable AI products.

Leads the AI Engineering team across applied AI features and foundational ML infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing Senior and Staff engineers, hiring and coaching, deploying LLM-powered capabilities, building MLOps and AI observability platforms, balancing product delivery with platform investment, and ensuring privacy, compliance, evaluation rigor, and clinical safety in production systems.

Develop and maintain production machine learning models, build scalable training and serving technologies, optimize real-time and batch ML pipelines, and monitor model performance and drift. The role involves deep neural networks, recommendation systems, automated retraining, ML research, engineering excellence, and communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences. Candidates need 6+ years of industry ML experience, strong coding skills, and experience deploying neural networks at scale.

Build and operate production machine learning systems for Safety AI, including low-latency APIs, data pipelines, model serving, evaluation, monitoring, and rollout infrastructure. Process large-scale camera and telematics data, optimize cloud and edge-to-cloud execution, track model performance and drift, and partner with applied scientists, firmware engineers, platform teams, and product managers to deliver reliable safety features.

Build, deploy, scale, and maintain machine learning models and platforms in production. Develop optimized data pipelines, distributed ML systems, cloud-based architectures, and automated CI/CD workflows. Collaborate with product and data science teams, monitor and retrain models, apply responsible AI practices, and ensure secure, governed software delivery. The role requires extensive experience with ML frameworks, distributed systems, cloud services, Kubernetes, and production machine learning operations.

Build, deploy, scale, and maintain production machine learning models and platforms. Responsibilities include developing ML algorithms, optimizing cloud-based infrastructure, constructing data pipelines, operating distributed systems, automating testing and deployment, monitoring models, and applying responsible and explainable AI practices. The role requires collaboration with product, data science, and cross-functional Agile teams.

Leads WHOOP’s cloud-based machine learning organization responsible for sleep, recovery, and training algorithms. Manages ML scientists and engineers, establishes technical standards and development practices, guides architecture and deployment, and partners with platform, hardware, sensor, product, research, and engineering teams. The role requires scaling production ML systems, improving model validation, monitoring, and deployment, and translating physiological sensor capabilities into reliable consumer experiences.

Design, train, test, optimize, and deploy machine-learning and deep-learning models using time-series and biosensor data. Develop robust inference systems for constrained edge and cloud environments, monitor algorithm performance and data quality, support regulated health-feature documentation, and conduct applied research. Collaborate with data science, firmware, and engineering teams to translate research prototypes into scalable production features for wearable technology.

Designs, develops, and improves AI and machine learning models for diverse R&D projects, including generative AI, predictive maintenance, data intelligence, and bioinformatics. Collaborates with technical teams and customers to define requirements, solve problems, conduct research, and deliver software solutions. Requires strong programming, analytical, mathematical, communication, and problem-solving skills, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.

Lead end-to-end LLM inference performance across serving systems, models, GPU hardware, and workloads. Define rigorous benchmarks, diagnose bottlenecks from scheduling through kernels and interconnects, optimize single- and multi-node deployments, and deliver production-ready runtimes and configurations. Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams, evaluate inference technologies, and implement runtime fixes. The role requires strong Python engineering, production experience with serving engines such as vLLM or SGLang, GPU profiling, and knowledge of modern inference optimization techniques.

Design, build, and support high-throughput, low-latency LLM inference and data pipelines; collaborate with data scientists to post-train and evaluate models; implement scalable, production-ready systems with strong testing, monitoring, and performance focus; mentor engineers and iterate on architecture, reliability, and user-facing AI applications.

Design, develop, deploy, and optimize machine learning models and production services for healthcare products. Build data pipelines, feature workflows, and training datasets; apply testing, validation, MLOps, cloud infrastructure, and monitoring practices. Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, improve model performance, develop reusable tools and frameworks, evaluate emerging AI technologies, support incident remediation, and provide technical guidance. The role requires production machine learning experience and proficiency in Python, SQL, and Unix environments.

Develop autonomy evaluation metrics, statistical and machine-learning analyses, dashboards, and pipelines for simulation and on-road autonomous vehicle testing. Analyze perception, prediction, and planning performance; identify anomalous behavior and critical scenarios; apply VLMs and LLMs where appropriate; and support release gating and safety decisions. The role requires production Python, C++ debugging, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and rigorous software engineering practices.

Perform data analysis and test & evaluation of machine learning algorithms; develop algorithms for physical and autonomous systems; transition algorithms to software and embedded systems; work with stakeholders to present results and solutions; research new ML and data-analysis methods; handle large, multidimensional datasets and data pipelines.

Lead the development and production deployment of applied machine learning and LLM solutions across product, marketing, and operations. Own ranking, recommendation, filtering, personalization, experimentation, and model evaluation systems. Partner with business and technical teams to identify valuable use cases, establish modeling best practices, and ensure reliable production deployment. Manage and mentor applied ML practitioners while maintaining technical rigor, business alignment, and measurable customer and revenue impact.

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.

Build and operationalize machine learning models for large-scale advertising optimization. Responsibilities include designing high-volume services, developing data solutions, training and evaluating models, improving calibration and guardrails, creating offline and online evaluation workflows, and monitoring production systems. The role requires collaboration with product and engineering teams, ownership of reliability and performance, participation in on-call rotations, and deploying scalable, cost-effective ML solutions.

Leads Tala’s Machine Learning Engineering team in building and operating platforms for model development, real-time inference, streaming features, batch processing, deployment, monitoring, and production reliability. Manages and develops 4–6 engineers, owns delivery and prioritization, provides architectural leadership, improves engineering practices and SLOs, and partners with Data Science, Data Engineering, Product, Credit, and Business Development teams.

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.

Design, build, and productionize scalable machine learning systems for personalized health and fitness metrics using physiological and behavioral data. Responsibilities include improving ML pipelines, translating research prototypes into reliable production services, developing operational infrastructure, implementing observability and incident response, and mentoring engineers and applied scientists.

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.

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.

Own robotic grasping intelligence by designing bespoke neural networks, building cloud training and evaluation pipelines, deploying models to robot fleets, and improving performance through field telemetry. Develop simulation-first manipulation strategies using robotics concepts including motion planning, kinematics, geometry, and perception. Collaborate with perception and motion-planning engineers while setting technical direction for a small applied ML team.

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