ML / AI Jobs in United States
There are 4,485 open ML / AI jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,045 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are machine-learning, ai and python.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | year | $194,895 | $227,500 | $262,500 | 805 |
| USD | hour | $45 | $70 | $90 | 69 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- machine-learning 95%
- ai 82%
- python 71%
- pytorch 47%
- llm 45%
- cloud 44%
- deep-learning 32%
- tensorflow 31%
How the work is done
- Remote 832 · 19%
- Hybrid 553 · 12%
- Onsite 521 · 12%
Visa sponsorship offered in 56% of the 514 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,104
- Staff 441
- Lead 312
- Intern 244
- Principal 202
- C-level 139
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 556
- 501-1000 employees 145
- 11-50 employees 67
- 51-200 employees 51
- 201-500 employees 15
- 1-10 employees 4
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Maneuvering Tech
Develops and refines algorithms for autonomous vehicle motion planning, ensuring safe and predictable driving behavior in complex real-world scenarios using C++ and data pipelines.
Technical Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Maneuvering Tech
Waymo is hiring a Technical Lead Manager for its Machine Learning Maneuvering Tech team to lead development of onboard motion planning systems that improve low-speed maneuvering of the autonomous Waymo Driver. Day to day: technical leadership, mentoring engineers, improving evaluation, and debugging driving behavior from logs using C++ and ML.
Staff Technical Lead Manager, Simulation, Machine Learning
Leads a team developing machine learning models to evaluate and improve autonomous vehicle behavior using deep learning, Gen AI, and large-scale simulation systems.
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LLM/VLM Model Architecture & Optimization
Designs and optimizes large vision-language and language models for autonomous driving, focusing on hardware-aligned architectures and on-device performance in a safety-critical environment.
Staff ML Engineer, Generative Model Performance & Efficiency
A senior machine learning engineer at Waymo optimizes generative models and simulations for autonomous driving, focusing on performance, efficiency, and scalability using advanced ML techniques and hardware accelerators.
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation
Develops and deploys machine learning models to evaluate autonomous vehicle behavior in simulation and real-world settings using Python/C++ and deep learning.
Perception Machine Learning Engineer - Continuous Learning
Build and scale ML systems that continuously improve autonomous vehicle perception models using active learning, data curation, and large-scale pipelines.
Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception
Staff Tech Lead ML Engineer on Waymo's Perception team, designing multi-sensor model architectures for autonomous vehicle scene understanding and optimizing models for onboard compute using Python, C++, and frameworks like PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow.
Sr Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception
Waymo is hiring a Sr Staff Tech Lead / ML Engineer for its Perception team to set the technical roadmap for next-generation multi-modal perception of the Waymo Driver - architecting scalable sensor-fusion models, optimizing them for onboard hardware, leading cross-functional initiatives, and mentoring engineers. Core stack: Python, C++, and modern ML frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, and TensorFlow.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Predictive Planner, Systems Arch
Senior ML engineer on Waymo's Predictive Planning team designs and deploys deep learning models that predict the future state of the world and plan the autonomous vehicle's behavior, working across data, modeling, metrics, and planner system architecture using TensorFlow/JAX/PyTorch on Google's data infrastructure.
Staff Tech Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Simulator Evaluation
Waymo is hiring a staff-level tech lead manager to lead its Simulator Evaluation ML team: architecting ML-driven metrics and evaluation frameworks that prove the realism of its autonomous-driving simulator (world models), building AI-powered internal eval tooling, and managing 5-10 engineers. Core stack: Python/C++, PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow, large-scale GPU/TPU training.
AI/ML PhD Intern (Summer 2027)
Sigma Computing is hiring a Summer 2027 PhD intern to conduct original AI/ML research (search, recommendations, NLP, agentic workflows) and prototype and productionize AI features for its cloud data warehouse analytics platform. The role is in-office in San Francisco, paying $80-90/hour.
Medical Director, AI Safety
About Avo Avo is the leading AI platform for healthcare enterprises, helping clinicians make better decisions, move faster, and improve the quality of patient care. Serving as a central hub for care teams, Avo brings…
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Government (IL5)
Senior ML engineer at Uare.ai deploying its Human Life Model on Azure OpenAI inside a DoD IL5 Azure Government boundary: serving/tuning models, porting RAG and voice pipelines, building evals, and managing provenance for ATO. In-person in San Francisco/Los Altos; $200K–$260K base + equity.