Top Remote Data Science Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll develop fraud detection models, perform detailed analyses, and work closely with teams to drive product innovation and business outcomes.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead AI risk assessments, coordinate with stakeholders, and ensure effective AI governance practices for safe financial application deployment.

Lead strategy and execution for generative and multimodal vision systems, from research to production. Design model architectures, adaptation, evaluation, and deployment pipelines; improve realism, controllability, robustness, and temporal consistency; benchmark and guide model selection; mentor scientists and coordinate cross-functional engineering to ship production-ready AI capabilities.

Build, evaluate, and ship matching, recommendation, and ranking models for job-seeker experiences. Work with skills and occupation taxonomies and labor-market data, partner with Engineering to productionize and monitor models, and translate messy data into clear, actionable analysis for product and customers.

Lead a 5–8 person Data Science team to develop and operationalize FWA detection models using SAS and Python on multi‑payer healthcare claims. Oversee model development, data pipelines, quality reviews, stakeholder presentations, and collaboration with SMEs and BI developers. Split role ~40% management, 60% hands-on coding/analysis.

Design, build, and deploy predictive GTM models (LTV, attribution, propensity). Lead experimentation and causal analyses, define KPI measurement frameworks, partner with Data Engineering, and translate statistical insights into actionable recommendations for Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success.

Develop and tune ML models, productionize and deploy strategies for ML systems, and align cross-functionally to communicate performance metrics.

Lead healthcare and pharmaceutical marketing analytics: analyze CRM, media, healthcare and behavioral data; build segmentation, attribution, audience scoring, and predictive models; develop measurement frameworks; use Python, SQL, BI and automation; translate insights for executives; mentor juniors and partner with Strategy, Media, and Client Services.

As a Data Scientist, you will build predictive models, develop software tools, and analyze geoscientific data to support mineral exploration and discovery.

The Data Scientist will develop predictive models, analyze geophysical data, and collaborate with geoscientists to enhance exploration programs, focusing on mineral deposits.

As a Data Scientist, you will develop predictive models, analyze geoscientific data, and collaborate with geoscientists to improve mineral exploration efforts.

Build and productionize AI/ML solutions on a modern AWS federal data platform: implement RAG/vector stores, develop and validate models and pipelines, automate via Airflow/Glue/Spark, integrate with ETL metadata, ensure security/compliance, write tests and documentation, and support agile delivery.

The Data Scientist role involves designing and deploying machine learning systems, prototyping AI agents, collaborating with product teams, and addressing business problems. Responsibilities include model building, data analysis, client collaboration, and contributing to AI tooling.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will develop data-driven fraud prevention solutions using Generative AI, design scalable ML pipelines, and mentor junior data scientists while collaborating across teams to improve analytics and decision-making.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will lead initiatives to build and optimize machine learning models, collaborate across departments, and solve complex business problems using data.

The Senior ML Data Scientist will develop machine learning models to detect fraud, manage the data science lifecycle, and collaborate with teams on strategies.

Lead design and ownership of advanced fraud detection models and monitoring. Apply adversarial threat modeling to select architectures (tree-based, deep, graph), debug production failures, run experiments, mentor engineers, and build AI-assisted workflows that scale domain expertise while resisting manipulation.

The role involves designing, building, and deploying machine learning models, collaborating with teams to address business problems, and mentoring other data scientists.

Apply quantitative modeling, experimentation, and ML to product and business problems. Build analysis pipelines, prototype models, instrument experiments, manipulate large web-scale datasets, and communicate insights to cross-functional partners to improve Pinterest products for millions of users.

As the Senior Data Scientist for AI & Model Risk, you will lead AI risk assessments, coordinate with stakeholders, evaluate AI system designs, and ensure compliance with risk management principles in financial services.

The Data Scientist II will oversee data management, design study protocols, train staff, lead report development, and manage client activities using project frameworks.

The role involves preparing traffic data, developing and deploying machine learning models on Google Vertex AI, and collaborating with teams to improve project workflows.

As a Business Intelligence Data Scientist, you will develop dashboards, build statistical models, and analyze product features to enhance user insights.

The Staff Data Scientist will oversee Foodsmart's member growth analytics, focusing on marketing and product funnel optimization, experimentation, attribution modeling, and enhancing self-service analytic tools while collaborating closely with leadership and cross-functional teams.

Partner with product engineering to design and analyze experiments, apply causal reasoning and statistical modeling to marketplace data, and drive data-informed product decisions across the engineering org.