Top Remote Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Manage and grow NVIDIA partner relationships in Manufacturing and Automotive: develop business plans, drive ecosystem enablement, increase adoption of NVIDIA AI solutions, maintain executive relationships, and present results in QBRs.

Design, implement, and deploy large-scale machine learning and optimization algorithms for ad ranking. Build and evaluate models, create online/offline evaluation frameworks, partner with product to define objectives and constraints, and communicate results to stakeholders to drive ad quality and performance.

Design, build, and evaluate large-scale ML-driven bidding algorithms for ad optimization (clicks, conversions, CPA, ROAS). Develop online/offline evaluation frameworks, inform auction/pricing design, partner with product, and communicate results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Lead technical direction and deliver large-scale ML platform infrastructure including feature store, model serving, experimentation, and training pipelines. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-team initiatives, resolve system-wide issues (latency, reliability, GPU utilization), and define safe ML deployment paths from registration through rollout, monitoring, and rollback.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, secure Java backend services and APIs. Ensure reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across microservices, databases, messaging systems, and capacity planning. Troubleshoot, profile, benchmark, and optimize systems (including ML applications) and collaborate with Kazakhstan stakeholders.

Design, develop, and validate functionally safe software for robotic perception systems. Build safety-critical architecture across Linux and real-time operating systems, create testing and validation frameworks for edge cases, collaborate with machine learning, hardware, and core software teams, and mentor junior engineers on safety-critical coding practices.

Leads pre-sales consulting for strategic Big Tech and AI customers, including discovery, solution design, demonstrations, architecture discussions, proof-of-concepts, executive presentations, and technical sales deliverables. Partners with Sales, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and post-sales teams to address identity, fraud, risk, compliance, and data requirements. Translates complex technical and analytical concepts into business recommendations, develops technical win strategies, mentors teammates, and ensures effective implementation handoffs.

Drive MSSP partner growth across AMER by recruiting, onboarding, activating, and expanding strategic managed security service provider relationships. Develop territory recruitment plans, executive partnerships, joint business plans, and indirect routes to market. Help partners launch managed security services, generate pipeline, increase revenue, and accelerate time-to-revenue. Collaborate with sales, channel, marketing, services, and technical teams while managing forecasts, opportunities, executive reviews, and revenue objectives.

Develop and deploy mineral exploration instruments, sensor systems, data acquisition methods, and proprietary software. Integrate geospatial, geophysical, geochemical, geological, and geographic data; build statistically rigorous and physics-based models; identify ore-forming anomalies; and generate 2D and 3D exploration predictions. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, geoscientists, vendors, and external partners to design field programs, deploy sensors, reduce uncertainty, and guide exploration decisions.

The Machine Learning Engineer will build data-intensive products, deploy ML models, analyze datasets, and collaborate with product teams to enhance Nextdoor's platform.

Develop and operate machine learning systems for automated manufacturing. Responsibilities include building scalable data and model infrastructure, automating ML pipelines, deploying models to production and edge devices, monitoring performance, optimizing latency, integrating AI/ML tools, managing incidents, ensuring security and privacy, and collaborating with automation engineers, data scientists, data engineers, and software teams.

Leads Gilead’s enterprise Applied AI strategy for clinical development and operations. Owns the multi-year AI roadmap, predictive enrollment modeling, trial design optimization, site feasibility, real-world data integration, governance, value measurement, and scaled adoption. Builds and manages a cross-functional center of excellence spanning data science, ML engineering, GenAI, and delivery management. Partners across clinical, regulatory, technology, and commercial functions while overseeing budgets, change management, external partnerships, compliance, and organizational talent development.

Provides strategic legal counsel on clinical trials, commercial biopharma services, healthcare regulations, privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, and EU employment law. Advises on clinical documentation, data transfers, privacy assessments, AI and digital health initiatives, workforce matters, contracts, vendor agreements, and regulatory compliance. Partners with senior leadership, business teams, HR, compliance, privacy, clinical, technology, and outside counsel to manage risk and support compliant operations.

Lead and scale MEDHOST’s software engineering organization, overseeing product delivery, modernization, security, reliability, scalability, and operational performance. Develop technology strategy and architecture roadmaps while driving AI-first transformation across products, engineering workflows, and enterprise operations. Establish performance metrics, govern technology investments, manage strategic initiatives, and advise executives on emerging technologies, risks, and opportunities. The role also requires implementing generative AI, machine learning, and AI governance within healthcare software environments.

Own and grow a Southeast or Mid-Atlantic commercial territory targeting companies with 500–2,500 employees. Responsibilities include prospecting, pipeline development, new business acquisition, upselling and cross-selling, multi-product deal closure, forecasting, territory management, executive presentations, negotiation, industry events, and collaboration with internal and channel teams. The role requires communicating cybersecurity and identity-access solutions to business leaders while consistently achieving sales quotas.

Lead AI-driven localization product initiatives from concept through production. Build strategic roadmaps, incubate machine-learning capabilities, partner with researchers and engineers, and deliver scalable tools for creators and content operations. Translate user needs into impactful products, communicate strategy to executives and nontechnical stakeholders, and use data, experimentation, and ML evaluation to prioritize work and measure outcomes.

Lead technical strategy for customer accounts by designing scalable data, AI, machine learning, streaming, and real-time analytics solutions. Conduct architecture discussions, whiteboarding, design reviews, and live coding; advise senior technical stakeholders; drive Databricks adoption and consumption; coordinate cross-functional resources; demonstrate solutions in competitive situations; and provide product feedback. Requires strong Python and SQL skills, public-cloud deployment experience, and expertise in distributed data systems.

Designs, builds, scales, and operates distributed CI/CD services supporting millions of builds, tests, and releases. Develops code for Azure-based infrastructure spanning virtual machines, containers, and custom lab environments. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, architecture and design documentation, estimation, debugging, optimization, operational playbooks, on-call incident response, monitoring, reliability improvements, and mentoring engineers.

Owns AI operations measurement, impact reporting, optimization, vendor partnerships, and governance. The role develops KPI frameworks and dashboards, connects AI performance to business outcomes, improves cost, latency, and accuracy, manages SaaS/API AI vendors, and establishes compliance and risk workflows. It requires influencing technical direction across teams, mentoring engineers, and communicating evidence-backed results to executives, customers, partners, and technical stakeholders.

Architect and operate North’s AWS and multi-cloud infrastructure, establishing IaC, CI/CD, security, observability, and disaster-recovery standards. Build AIOps capabilities including anomaly detection, predictive scaling, self-healing remediation, AI-assisted tooling, and cloud cost optimization. Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, Product Engineering, and InfoSec teams to deliver resilient, compliant, highly scalable platforms.

Owns the end-to-end product strategy and execution for AI-powered systems. Defines requirements, evaluation frameworks, quality standards, and system behavior while balancing quality, latency, cost, reliability, safety, and user experience. Partners closely with ML, backend, and client engineering teams to identify failure modes, improve model performance, prioritize roadmaps, and deliver predictable, useful, trusted AI experiences.

Own end-to-end deployment projects for automotive dealerships from kickoff through go-live and stabilization. Gather requirements, manage timelines and dependencies, coordinate internal teams, validate technical readiness, resolve blockers, maintain documentation, and provide status updates. Manage multiple deployments simultaneously while handling dealership data, DMS access, OEM credentials, VPN, and connectivity complexities. Serve as the primary dealership contact and ensure projects meet activation targets.

Analyze and optimize digital partnership performance, growth, profitability, and customer acquisition economics. Design experiments, develop forecasts and performance models, build measurement frameworks, investigate anomalies, and provide actionable recommendations. The role requires translating ambiguous business questions into analytical solutions, communicating insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and establishing scalable analytical processes that support strategic decision-making.

The Business Development Director will lead strategic engagement with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, focusing on alliance strategies, go-to-market execution, and revenue growth through innovative cloud solutions.

Pre-sales technical role: demonstrate Kore.ai platform, architect and whiteboard solutions, run use-case workshops, estimate ML effort, collaborate with product and delivery teams, and support sales to close enterprise AI and contact-center deals.