Top Senior Machine Learning Jobs in Boston, MA

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.

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.

Build and adapt AI models for customer-specific scientific workflows. Lead post-training using SFT and reinforcement learning, design evaluation systems, analyze model failures, and drive iterative quality improvements. Partner with AI researchers and software engineers to integrate reliable model capabilities into production workflows. The role requires strong Python and PyTorch skills, deep familiarity with language, multimodal, or agentic models, and the ability to translate customer needs into technical solutions.

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.

Lead the training, optimization, scaling, and debugging of large language and multimodal generative models for scientific discovery. Develop efficient training workflows, identify performance bottlenecks, guide technical strategy, mentor engineers, and collaborate with researchers and domain experts to translate advanced machine learning research into impactful solutions.

Build and improve machine learning systems for ad ranking, relevance, personalization, and optimization. Responsibilities include feature pipelines, model training and evaluation, active learning, LLM-assisted labeling and synthetic data generation, experimentation, and low-latency production inference. The role partners with product, data, and platform teams to improve advertiser performance and user engagement while maintaining reliability, latency, and data quality.

Design and deploy multimodal 2D/3D perception models for warehouse robots. Own model optimization, quantization, edge inference, production integration, dataset quality, active learning, and pipeline reliability. Lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and shape the perception roadmap while delivering robust computer vision systems for real-world robotic applications.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lead the architecture and delivery of production-grade AI/ML systems for client engagements. Design agentic AI, LLM, RAG, search, recommendation, and classical machine learning solutions; advise client stakeholders; mentor engineering teams; oversee technical strategy, project delivery, deployment, monitoring, and iteration across AWS and GCP environments.

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.

Designs and delivers end-to-end AI/ML solutions on Google Cloud, including data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, deployment, and monitoring. The role leads client discovery, translates business needs into AI/ML strategies, develops roadmaps, provides technical leadership, and supports testing and user training. It requires hands-on Gemini and GCP expertise, customer-facing consulting experience, and collaboration across 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.

Develop and productize machine learning models for autonomous vehicle perception, including LiDAR and camera perception, sensor fusion, detection, classification, segmentation, and tracking. Build scalable data, training, metrics, and performance workflows, and implement efficient C++ code for the NVIDIA DRIVE AV platform. Collaborate across engineering teams, track advances in machine learning, and optimize models for real-time embedded inference.

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.

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.

Design, build, test, and improve plugin-based forecasting models from business need through production deployment. Own ML and modeling initiatives end to end, evaluate performance across customer environments, distinguish generalizable solutions from customer-specific requirements, and use AI-assisted engineering tools. Work autonomously with customers and cross-functional stakeholders in a distributed international team, with occasional travel.

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.

Optimize training and inference performance for structural and generative ML models. Develop custom CUDA and Triton kernels, use ML compilers, scale distributed training across multi-node GPU clusters, reduce inference costs, improve GPU utilization on GCP, and build benchmarking and profiling tools. Provide technical direction, select infrastructure, influence research teams, and mentor engineers.

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.