Top Remote Data Science Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead product analytics to inform strategy and optimize user experience: translate business questions into analysis, build reliable analytics infrastructure, run A/B tests and ML/statistical analyses, track funnels and cohorts, support 0-to-1 product launches, and communicate actionable insights to cross-functional teams.

Lead design and delivery of scalable ML systems across the full lifecycle for recommendations, demand forecasting, targeting, and personalization. Collaborate with engineers, product, and stakeholders to set architecture, metrics, and production best practices; mentor data scientists; lead experimentation and deploy/monitor models using cloud and MLOps tooling.

As a Data Scientist at SentiLink, you'll develop fraud detection models using machine learning, engage in product development, and support analysis across teams. This role emphasizes hands-on technical work and end-to-end project ownership in a fast-paced environment.

Design and train LLMs and agentic systems for cybersecurity using RLHF/RLAIF and supervised fine-tuning. Build agent architectures, tooling, retrieval/memory, and evaluation pipelines with rigorous statistical benchmarking. Optimize prompts and inference, collaborate with engineers to productionize prototypes, and drive research on agent planning, safety, and reliability.

Build and deploy statistical and machine learning models for the Toast platform. Collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to identify opportunities, develop data-driven solutions, evaluate models, and communicate insights to stakeholders. Work in a fast-paced environment and contribute to production ML systems and experimentation.

As a Staff Data Scientist at SentiLink, you will develop fraud detection models, conduct analyses, collaborate across teams, and drive the development of financial risk products.

The Senior Data Scientist will build models and analyses, design experiments, integrate datasets, and leverage AI for improved workflows and insights in data science.

Lead AML model development, optimization, validation, and governance for transaction and customer screening across banking, brokerage, and lending. Build ML/statistical models, maintain vendor solutions, ensure regulatory compliance, document methodologies, produce AML dashboards, and support audits, risk assessments, and stakeholder communications.

Own and evolve revenue calibration models tying CX interactions to revenue, design causal inference and experimentation frameworks, build LLM-powered classification/NLP pipelines, productionize models with Analytics Engineers, define segmentation and behavioral signals, and ensure statistical rigor for executive reporting and regulatory defensibility.

The Data Scientist will build machine learning models to enhance claim audits, optimize performance, and improve healthcare decision-making by analyzing complex data sets.

The Staff Data Scientist will advance machine learning models to optimize claim audits and improve business outcomes in healthcare.

The Staff Data Scientist will lead the development and deployment of ML and GenAI systems to detect billing errors and fraud in healthcare payments, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The Data Scientist will develop tools for enhancing signature management capabilities, integrate diverse data holdings, and leverage AI/ML solutions for operational support.

Develop a tool to enhance signature management capabilities and integrate diverse data holdings, leveraging AI/ML solutions to meet operational needs.

Customer-facing data scientist advising customers on experiment design, statistical methodology, and experimentation architecture; running and analyzing A/B tests; building scalable experimentation programs; creating repeatable frameworks and technical enablement; partnering with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Engineering to drive customer success.

Build and productionize ML models and data infrastructure to analyze millions of chaos engineering experiments, detect and explain failures, recommend automated remediation, and integrate AI-driven failure analysis into Gremlin's product using techniques like causal inference, graph ML, time-series modeling, and reinforcement learning.

Lead and deliver end-to-end data science projects: design, build, deploy, and monitor ML/statistical models for credit risk, pricing, collections, and fraud. Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate models into production, set model development standards, mentor engineers, and maintain reliable ML pipelines and monitoring systems.

Lead development of orthomosaic tile imagery products for FireSat and SBEM: design and implement scalable mosaicking, orthorectification, and radiometric normalization algorithms; write production-ready code; author technical and customer-facing documentation; validate scientific quality; engage stakeholders and act as product owner for SBEM granule product; collaborate with engineers and scientists.

Lead radiometric calibration and image processing for multispectral infrared instruments, commission FireSat satellites, and develop/execute SBEM calibration plans. Implement production-ready pipelines, perform R&D to improve calibration, write production-quality code, and collaborate cross-functionally to maintain operational remote sensing data products and services.

The Data Scientist will build predictive models, drive forecasting, design experiments, and translate findings for stakeholders, optimizing healthcare operations.

Perform statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and data visualization on workforce and training data. Build dashboards, produce ad hoc analyses and decision-support products, advise on data governance/privacy, and collaborate with stakeholders to define metrics, deliverables, and reproducible analytic workflows.

Use statistical and causal inference methods to build, implement, and monitor marketing models (Bayesian MMM, multi-touch attribution), analyze A/B and uplift tests, partner with marketing to test and drive data-informed decisions from large web-product datasets.

Lead and grow a 4–6 person data science team, set the roadmap, deliver marketplace forecasting and production ML (matching, scoring), embed data science cross-functionally, and establish modeling, experimentation, and monitoring best practices.

Build and deploy machine learning models on large healthcare datasets, extract actionable insights, develop scalable data processing systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and communicate findings to stakeholders to improve patient outcomes.

Embedded on the central Data Science team, you will define the right problems, build metrics, run analyses and experiments, create reports, and drive data-informed recommendations end-to-end across growth, product, AI/automation, or partnerships.