Top Remote Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Paid 3-month remote contract for students or recent grads to build and test LLM-based solutions using the Token Factory inference platform. Assist senior SAs with prompt engineering, model selection, benchmarking, and inference optimization. Run performance and quality experiments and contribute to internal tooling and automation. Mentorship provided; strong performers may be considered for full-time roles.

As a Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer, you'll finetune models, improve data quality, add new signals, and push solutions to production.

Lead the development of device intelligence and fingerprinting systems by designing backend services, collaborating on integrations, and applying advanced machine learning algorithms to enhance security and combat fraud.

Lead and grow the AI/ML Engineering team, manage core AI/ML platform development, ensure production-grade service operational excellence, and develop product strategies.

The Principal Machine Learning Engineer will fine-tune and optimize LLMs for various applications, develop AI products, and enhance ML infrastructure in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Build and productionize large-scale ML models and pipelines for query understanding and personalization. Work on autocomplete, query tagging/NER, query expansion, intent modeling, and LLM-powered natural-language search. Collaborate cross-functionally to design, deploy, and monitor batch and real-time systems, leveraging modern ML infrastructure and tooling to improve search relevance across Airbnb products.

Develop, fine-tune, and deploy LLMs for NLP tasks; design and maintain large-scale data pipelines; analyze time-series data; implement data-driven models and OCR systems; ensure data quality; collaborate cross-functionally; and research and apply best practices to improve internal data processing tools and infrastructure.

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 architecture and technical strategy for Lyra's ML and generative AI platform. Design training, fine-tuning, and low-latency inference infrastructure (RAG, vector DBs), set ML/AI SDLC standards (dataset lineage, CI/CD, evaluation, monitoring), partner with cross-functional clinical and product teams, mentor senior engineers, deliver prototypes and critical code, and ensure secure, reliable production ML systems.

As a Machine Learning Engineer in Computer Vision, you'll develop AI solutions using advanced algorithms, focusing on image classification, segmentation, and video processing tools.

The Senior ML Engineer will automate component placement on PCBs, working on R&D and production using ML and optimization techniques.

As a Senior/Staff ML Systems Engineer at Quilter, you'll design and maintain ML infrastructure for automated PCB component placement, manage data pipelines, and lead systems design reviews while ensuring project efficiency and reliability within a fully distributed team.

The role involves managing the ML lifecycle, developing scalable ML systems, and collaborating on AI-first product solutions focusing on Large Quantitative Models.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, develop LLM evaluation frameworks and agentic AI workflows to extract insights from conversations and optimize customer experiences.

Build and expand in-database ML model catalog: implement new model types, ensure framework parity with scikit-learn/Spark ML, optimize training and inference at petabyte scale, extend SQL-level linear algebra, and collaborate across teams to deliver correct, performant ML features and documentation.

Lead design, development, and production deployment of ML models and GenAI/LLM solutions to optimize clinical trial workflows. Build scalable pipelines, monitoring, and CI/CD for robust production use. Collaborate cross-functionally, mentor junior engineers, and communicate technical results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The role involves product management of AI tools, collaborating with research, engineering, and design teams to develop and enhance products, focusing on user needs and market value.

The role involves building a large-scale data ingestion system using Python, web scraping, and data processing technologies to extract and classify data from diverse sources, and optimize data pipelines.

Build and productionize LLM-powered tools, RAG systems, and agentic workflows. Deploy and operate AI infrastructure on Kubernetes, manage model serving and vector stores, integrate identity and access controls, automate CI/CD and data pipelines, and establish evaluation and observability for deployed services in a defense-oriented environment.

Build and ship state-of-the-art speech systems end-to-end: model architecture, training (pre-train/fine-tune/post-train), evaluation, tooling, data curation, production inference, and safety/abuse mitigation for voice conversion and related tasks.

Lead the design and delivery of a production-grade localization ML stack for autonomous vehicles: architect models for landmark-based localization across sensors, own data and evaluation pipelines, drive feature development to deployment, define failure modes and safety coverage, and mentor engineers while integrating cutting-edge multimodal and foundation-model techniques into robust, real-time localization systems.

Design, develop, implement, and monitor statistical and machine learning models to support credit risk, collections, servicing, marketing, and forecasting. Build data pipelines, translate business needs into analytical solutions, support model governance, testing, deployment, and ongoing performance monitoring, and communicate results to stakeholders.

Partner with customers to design and deliver production-ready AI/ML solutions, drive POC-to-production success, troubleshoot technical issues, inform product roadmap with customer feedback, and communicate outcomes to stakeholders.

The Senior Principal AI/ML Architect will drive AI architectural vision, influence multi-squad strategy, design intelligent systems, and set operational standards for Yahoo Mail's AI capabilities.

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