Top Remote Machine Learning Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Own machine learning models end to end, from data preparation and training through evaluation and production deployment. Build pipelines for large multimodal datasets including video, sensor streams, and language. Collaborate with engineering and computer vision teams, rapidly prototype solutions, apply relevant research, and continuously improve production models and tooling.

Own the end-to-end machine learning and LLM lifecycle, taking models and agentic AI workflows from experimentation into reliable, scalable production. Design MLOps infrastructure, serving, orchestration, CI/CD, evaluation, observability, and GPU optimization. Build self-service tooling and establish LLMOps standards while partnering with engineering and business teams. The role is fully remote and involves up to 10% travel.

Sets technical vision for Pinterest’s ML and media infrastructure, leading distributed training, fine-tuning, evaluation, inference, GPU optimization, content ingestion, and signal-processing architectures. Partners with AI/ML, Ads, Content, Shopping, and GenAI teams to productionize reliable, scalable platforms, drive architecture decisions and migrations, improve operational standards, and mentor senior engineers.

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.

Design and build a production-grade AI memory and retrieval engine for personalized, privacy-preserving LLM experiences. Responsibilities include developing multi-tier storage and hybrid retrieval pipelines, memory extraction and classification, adaptive updates, evaluation frameworks, and reliability safeguards. The role researches advanced memory architectures, supports agentic workflows and tool integrations, collaborates with product management, and owns production operations. Strong software engineering, Python, NLP/ML, vector database, LLM orchestration, privacy, and RAG expertise are required.

Designs and manages AWS cloud infrastructure and Amazon EKS platforms using GitLab CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. Builds ETL workflows and scalable data pipelines for analytics and AI workloads, supports MLOps/AIOps and FinOps capabilities, troubleshoots Linux systems, and improves platform performance, security, scalability, and availability.

Build scalable infrastructure for LLM-based agentic AI supporting autonomous security operations. Responsibilities include designing agent orchestration frameworks, LLM inference and resource-management systems, MCP servers, supporting APIs, and distributed backend services. The role collaborates with machine learning, security research, engineering, and product teams. Required experience includes backend infrastructure, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, cloud deployment, containerization, orchestration, and Python, Java, or Go.

Lead design, development, and production deployment of ML and algorithmic solutions. Own end-to-end ML systems, support distributed production reliability, communicate tradeoffs, and apply generative AI, LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic techniques to product problems.

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.

Own the full lifecycle of production classification and detection models, including transformer fine-tuning, entity detection, behavioral risk scoring, training, serving, versioning, evaluation, drift detection, and retraining. Build SageMaker-based ML systems and define output contracts supporting audit and policy enforcement. Lead the evaluation harness and mentor a co-op while operating as the company’s sole ML engineer.

Own the production lifecycle of ranking and recommendation models, including training, validation, deployment, monitoring, retraining, versioning, rollback, and retirement. Build scalable Spark-based feature and data pipelines, orchestration workflows, model hubs, observability, CI/CD, and reliability standards. Partner with data science and engineering teams to improve model quality, deployment speed, infrastructure efficiency, and operational resilience while mentoring teammates.

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 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.

Own the complete machine learning model lifecycle, from experimentation and validation through deployment, monitoring, retraining, rollback, and retirement. Build reusable training, evaluation, deployment, orchestration, and CI/CD infrastructure. Establish model promotion standards, versioning, lineage, monitoring, alerting, and incident-response processes. Partner with data scientists to preserve scientific validity, improve reliability and efficiency, support delayed-label use cases, mentor teammates, and define MLOps priorities.

Build and operate distributed GPU training platforms for foundation models. Run and debug multi-node PyTorch and Ray Train workloads, tune GPU networking and scheduling, profile performance, and develop benchmarks and evaluation harnesses. Partner with infrastructure teams and client scientists to improve throughput, reliability, cost efficiency, observability, and end-to-end training pipelines on GKE.

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.

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.

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 DigitalOcean’s AI security strategy, governance framework, and multi-year roadmap. Secure AI/ML systems across data ingestion, training, model serving, RAG, agents, and monitoring. Conduct threat modeling, adversarial testing, AI red teaming, and security reviews; develop guardrails and automation with engineering teams. Advise executives and the board on AI risk, define organizational controls, and guide responses to emerging threats including prompt injection, model supply-chain risks, and AI-enabled social engineering.

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.

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.

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.