Top Remote Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll build and deploy ML models for risk and fraud detection, leading technical efforts and collaborating cross-functionally.

The Research Advisor will provide high-level consultancy for generative AI systems, engage in research collaborations, and represent the Human Frontier Collective in key executive meetings.

The Director of AI will lead AI and machine learning initiatives, develop AI architecture for humanoid robots, oversee production-ready AI systems, and manage team growth and budget.

Lead a team to enhance Cengage Learning Platforms by implementing AI-first strategies, improving software delivery processes, and ensuring product quality.

Lead strategy and execution for AI-powered Customer Success Services, overseeing Gainsight and related platforms, customer community strategy, customer intelligence, automation, digital engagement, platform governance, and a team to scale adoption, retention, and operational efficiency across the customer lifecycle.

Develop and expand software products and platforms across backend, frontend, cloud, AI, and machine learning systems. Build efficient, reliable, and testable code; collaborate with business partners to launch features; influence product and engineering decisions; mentor team members; and help shape team culture and product vision in an agile environment.

Develop ML/RL models and infrastructure for AV simulations, optimize training loops, and support project timelines in autonomous vehicle tech.

Design, build, and operate production ML decision systems to detect and prevent payment fraud, account takeover, scams, and other abuse. Integrate diverse signals into low-latency serving and batch scoring, own feature pipelines and model lifecycle, develop AI-assisted triage and feedback loops, and partner cross-functionally to balance fraud reduction with legitimate customer access.

Design, build, and operate production ML systems that generate trusted signals for ranking, retrieval, recommendations, propensity/churn/LTV, and next-best-action decisioning. Define signal/data contracts, own feature and candidate generation through serving, experimentation, monitoring, and feedback loops, and evaluate long-term business impact, trust, fairness, and compliance. Partner across product, data, modeling, risk, and compliance and apply AI/agents to accelerate engineering and operations.

Own product strategy, vision, roadmaps, backlogs, and delivery for enterprise SaaS products serving financial services organizations. Translate strategy into requirements and user stories, lead Agile ceremonies, engage customers, monitor product metrics, manage delivery risks, and align portfolio companies with leadership and cross-functional teams. Identify and deliver AI-enabled capabilities, workflow automation, analytics, and intelligent business solutions.

Full-cycle quota-carrying Account Executive selling Bold Metrics' SaaS fit and sizing solutions to apparel brands. Own outreach through contracting, build ROI cases, manage cross-functional coordination, develop outbound strategies, leverage AI to scale workflows, track funnel metrics, and feed customer insights to Product.

Lead and mentor full-stack engineering teams to design, build, test, deploy, and support scalable client-facing and proprietary software. Drive architecture, technical roadmap, Agile delivery, cloud-native migrations, API integrations, quality metrics, and cross-functional collaboration while balancing hands-on development and people leadership to meet product and business goals.

Serve as the primary product contact embedded with health system clients to discover workflows, design AI-powered solutions, scope pilots, and lead 0→1 deployments. Translate clinical and administrative workflows into product requirements, drive UAT and go-live, measure business success metrics, and surface field insights into the product roadmap. Travel to client sites for discovery and deployment support and collaborate with ML engineers, FDEs, and solution teams to ensure measurable ROI and expansion.

Design and implement production-grade VLSI/EDA tools and methodologies for multi-die package design. Build flows, applications, and automation to construct, analyze, validate, and optimize package designs to accelerate tape-out and scale engineering teams.

Build and productionize customer-facing data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform. Own architecture and design decisions, develop end-to-end data pipelines and applications, integrate machine learning models, and guide enterprise customers through implementation and adoption. Collaborate with engineering, product, support, project managers, and customer stakeholders while delivering projects, documenting solutions, resolving issues, and creating reusable frameworks. Travel to customers approximately 20% of the time.

Owns a portfolio of NovaOS capabilities from concept through delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include managing product backlogs and roadmaps, prioritizing features, defining requirements and success metrics, coordinating cross-functional engineering, AI, UX, data, and architecture teams, leading product discovery and release planning, monitoring adoption and KPIs, and ensuring alignment with product governance, architecture, and Responsible AI standards.

Leads the strategy, roadmap, and product organization for NovaOS, an enterprise AI operating system. Oversees a portfolio spanning data, semantic, agentic, and experience layers; partners with business, engineering, and technology leaders to prioritize investments and deliver measurable outcomes. Establishes product governance, lifecycle practices, success metrics, and feedback mechanisms while building and mentoring a high-performing product management team.

Leads LaunchDarkly’s global partnerships and alliances strategy across GSIs, SIs, cloud, VAR, and technology partners. Builds the partnerships organization, partner programs, co-sell motions, services offerings, and PRM ecosystem. Owns partner-sourced pipeline, influenced revenue, budgets, forecasting, executive relationships, enablement, and cross-functional collaboration across Sales, Product, Services, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and Customer Success.

Leads enterprise AI-focused sales campaigns across a regional territory, advising C-suite and technical AI buyers on data platform and infrastructure solutions. Partners with account executives, solution architects, engineers, product teams, GSIs, and channel partners to develop use cases, reference architectures, ROI frameworks, and joint go-to-market strategies. Owns pipeline discipline, forecasting, account planning, complex deal orchestration, and AI solution positioning for enterprise workloads.

Design, build, and integrate AI-enabled applications using C#/.NET and Azure. Develop data ingestion, transformation, and automation pipelines for structured and unstructured data. Implement and optimize LLM/Generative AI solutions, build APIs, and support end-to-end delivery from design through production handoff while partnering with business stakeholders.

Lead the assessment, roadmap, requirements, and implementation of fraud and dispute products across card, ACH, instant payments, account takeover, transaction monitoring, and risk decisioning. Partner with customers, financial institutions, vendors, engineering, sales, marketing, and support teams. Evaluate emerging technologies, build business cases, support go-to-market efforts, conduct UAT, and serve as the fraud product subject matter expert.

Audit and improve human and model-generated data outputs for accuracy, consistency, and policy compliance. Provide actionable feedback, clarify evolving guidelines, support annotators, coach new team members, monitor workflows and blockers, identify recurring issues and edge cases, participate in calibration discussions, and document findings to improve team performance and quality at scale.

Develop and deploy deep learning models for AI-guided antibody drug discovery and target identification. Design experiments, build systems biology models, and create in silico and in vitro validation approaches. Collaborate with biological and wet-lab teams, present findings, publish high-impact research, and mentor scientists and engineers.

Leads engineering managers and software teams building customer-facing front-end applications and internal and external APIs. Sets technical direction, oversees delivery, manages risks and dependencies, improves engineering quality and security, develops talent, supports hiring, and partners with product and design. The role drives innovation and scalable software solutions for connected vehicle and fleet operations.

Leads the engineering strategy, architecture, development, operations, and continuous improvement of an enterprise agentic AI foundation. Establishes scalable engineering standards, operating models, governance, and reusable platform services that enable AI products and intelligent workflows. Partners with product, data, infrastructure, security, and business teams to modernize existing systems, guide cross-functional delivery, monitor operations, and communicate priorities, risks, and investment needs to senior leaders. Manages and develops product or engineering leaders while driving measurable business value.