Top Machine Learning Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Own the strategy, architecture, development, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of production personalization and recommendation systems. Build custom embeddings, ranking models, and shared representations across feeds, search, and recommendations. Lead ambiguous problems from concept to measurable customer impact, establish AI evaluation standards, partner with product and data teams, make cross-team technical decisions, and coach senior engineers.

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.

Develop and evaluate machine learning models for object classification, anomaly detection, and data-driven space mission tasks. Support data ingestion, preprocessing, feature engineering, experimentation, and model evaluation. Write clean, tested Python code while collaborating with senior engineers. The role is fully onsite in Denver or Long Beach and requires compliance with U.S. ITAR technology export regulations.

Develop, train, and evaluate machine learning models for space-domain applications including object classification and anomaly detection. Build data ingestion, preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation pipelines; conduct experiments; track results; and write clean, testable Python code. Collaborate with senior engineers while contributing to AI capabilities supporting space security and autonomous systems.

Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and productization of scalable AI/ML solutions. Build and optimize machine learning and deep learning models, transform prototypes into secure enterprise systems, and develop production-grade MLOps pipelines and CI/CD workflows. Guide AI/ML strategy, roadmaps, cloud deployments, and enterprise integration while mentoring engineering teams, advising customers, supporting workforce planning, and collaborating with technical and government stakeholders.

Develop, implement, and deploy scalable machine learning models for healthcare solutions. Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate models, analyze data to improve performance, ensure data quality, and stay current with ML advancements to support patient care and operational efficiency.

Develop and maintain AI-driven autonomous planning, scheduling, and optimization systems for Earth observation satellite operations. Build reinforcement learning algorithms, simulation and evaluation environments, and multi-objective optimization pipelines for satellite constellation tasking. Collaborate with aerospace engineers, mission operators, software engineers, and product teams to translate mission requirements into deployable systems. The role requires strong Java and Spring Boot experience, software engineering fundamentals, and machine learning or optimization expertise.

Build and ship computer-vision models end-to-end: dataset curation, training, deployment, and monitoring across cloud and roadside edge hardware. Optimize for high-volume inference, accuracy, efficiency, and real-world robustness while collaborating cross-functionally and iterating rapidly.

Build and ship production machine learning and computer vision systems processing 11 million daily images. Own the full lifecycle from sensor data collection, dataset curation, training, and deployment through monitoring and iteration. Develop detection, segmentation, classification, embedding, and re-identification models for cloud and roadside edge hardware, balancing accuracy, speed, and power efficiency. Apply both classical computer vision and state-of-the-art methods while writing production-quality software.

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.

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.

Develop AI/ML algorithms and ETL infrastructure for LLM, NLP, and time-series solutions. Build scalable data pipelines, curate evaluation datasets, implement machine learning models, optimize data delivery, automate processes, and develop software using Agile methodologies. The role collaborates with researchers and developers and may involve cloud services, distributed computing, containerization, GenAI operations, reinforcement learning, and GPU-based algorithm implementation.

Develops AI/ML algorithms and ETL infrastructure supporting LLM, NLP, predictive analytics, and other customer solutions. Builds and maintains data pipelines, curates evaluation data, improves scalability and automation, and collaborates with researchers and developers using Agile methods. The role requires Python-based data engineering, machine learning experience, and an active TS/SCI clearance, with preferred experience in cloud, containers, distributed computing, reinforcement learning, GenAI operations, and GPU programming.

Develop and deploy production-grade AI and machine learning capabilities for national security and OPIR missions. Responsibilities include signal-processing automation, data processing, model development, evaluation, MLOps workflows, GPU optimization, streaming-data integration, and scalable deployment in operational environments. The role involves collaboration with engineers, mission subject-matter experts, and product teams, with emphasis on AI agents, NLP, LLMs, computer vision, microservices, and classified cloud environments.

Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI/ML solutions for national security missions, including NLP, LLMs, generative AI, deep learning, and computer vision. Build scalable data pipelines, APIs, microservices, MLOps workflows, and cloud or edge-deployed systems. Optimize and evaluate models, integrate them into secure operational environments, and collaborate with engineering and mission teams. Document technical designs and support accreditation processes in classified settings.

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.

Develop AI/ML and LLM solutions by building ETL pipelines, curating evaluation data, implementing machine learning algorithms, and improving scalable infrastructure. The role collaborates with researchers and developers, supports NLP and predictive analytics, applies Agile methodologies, and may lead interdisciplinary teams. Work includes data engineering, cloud and containerized deployment, GenAI operations, and algorithm implementation across varied customer missions.

Develop and implement AI/ML algorithms across computer vision, NLP, time series, reinforcement learning, graph data, and large language models. Analyze multimodal datasets, apply research findings, support training and deployment pipelines using AWS, create technical documentation, and mentor team members. The role requires Python and deep learning expertise, version control experience, and the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.

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.

Design, build, and deploy autonomous AI agents using LLMs and agent frameworks; integrate agents into e-commerce and supply chain systems; implement multi-agent orchestration, memory and tool integrations; fine-tune models and apply RL concepts; and build safety, monitoring, and MLOps pipelines.

Design, develop, and implement AI/ML models; analyze large datasets; integrate AI solutions into existing systems; apply MavLink for autonomous systems; collaborate across teams and improve ML development processes.

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.

Develop, research, optimize, and deploy computer vision AI/ML algorithms for remote sensing, including automatic target recognition and multimodal EO/SAR data fusion. Responsibilities include processing large datasets, training supervised and unsupervised deep learning models, deploying solutions to cloud environments, reviewing research, documenting capabilities, and potentially leading junior engineers. The role requires an active TS/SCI clearance and supports defense and commercial applications.

Build and deploy production AI/ML features across the model lifecycle, including GenAI systems, RAG pipelines, data pipelines, evaluation infrastructure, and MLOps. Apply machine learning to manufacturing, supply chain, computer vision, predictive maintenance, forecasting, inventory, and logistics problems. Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams to deliver measurable outcomes.