Top Remote Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design and deploy machine learning models for financial document processing, optimize large language models, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and guide junior peers in a fast-paced environment.

The Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist will lead research initiatives in computer vision and multimodal understanding, develop novel models, and translate research into practical applications while mentoring team members.

Leads Stitch Fix’s Product Algorithms portfolio across Growth, Styling, and Fix & Freestyle. Defines strategy and roadmaps for machine learning, AI, experimentation, personalization, and product analytics; drives scalable production capabilities and measurable business outcomes; improves planning, operational readiness, incident management, and decision-making; and builds a high-performing organization of managers and senior technical contributors while partnering with executive and cross-functional stakeholders.

Own the strategy, requirements, evaluation, and execution of AI agent products and systems. Partner closely with ML, backend, and mobile engineers to make trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, reliability, and user experience. Define evaluation frameworks, drive prioritization, and ensure AI features are understandable, predictable, safe, and trusted. Translate model capabilities and feedback into product decisions and reliable real-world workflows.

Own the strategy, requirements, evaluation, and reliability of AI agent products. Partner closely with ML, backend, and mobile engineers to make trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, reliability, and user experience. Define offline and online evaluation frameworks, drive product execution, and ensure AI features are correct, predictable, safe, and trusted. Translate model capabilities and feedback into product decisions, roadmaps, and rapid iteration.

The Senior Product Architect will design security products, collaborating with product management and engineering teams, focusing on architecture and functionality for high-level product features.

Lead the Data Sources product roadmap for document parsing, fraud detection, and bank aggregation. Drive metrics (parse accuracy, fraud catch rate, connection success, SLAs), write specs, engage clients, mentor PMs/engineers, and represent the platform externally. Prioritize document types, extraction models, reliability, and scalability to improve conversion, client satisfaction, and operational efficiency across mortgage, tenant screening, and government use cases.

Lead enterprise AI and transformation engagements—own customer relationships, scope buildable solutions with FDE, drive commercial outcomes and expansion, advise C-suite on AI strategy, and create repeatable, scalable offerings to evolve Tive into an AI-powered intelligence platform.

You will execute and improve insurance workflows, analyze operational efficiency, collaborate with product teams, and support onboarding and documentation efforts.

Lead end-to-end ML systems for identity verification, including document authenticity, face match, liveness and deepfake detection. Build GNN-based identity graphs, behavioral/device-intelligence models, vendor benchmarking/evaluation, and production enforcement. Mentor engineers and align ML architecture with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Security stakeholders.

Review, label, and QA datasets for AI/ML training; maintain trackers, databases, and dashboards; follow annotation guidelines and SOPs; prepare and clean data; document processes; collaborate to resolve data queries while ensuring confidentiality and timely delivery.

Build and deploy production-grade LLM applications, AI agents, models, and scalable RAG pipelines for investment and business workflows. Architect secure MCP integrations with enterprise systems, establish MLOps and LLMOps practices, optimize model performance and latency, and develop evaluation, monitoring, governance, and rollback processes. Collaborate with data engineering and platform teams to provide secure, governed access to organizational data.

Design, develop, and implement AI/ML models; analyze large datasets; integrate AI solutions into existing systems; apply MavLink for autonomous systems; collaborate across teams and improve ML development processes.

The role involves conducting research and optimizing machine learning systems while collaborating with technical staff to enhance product performance.

As a Research/ML Engineer, you will translate cutting-edge AI research into product solutions, develop safety and reliability systems, and collaborate with technical teams.

Lead development of safety frameworks and V&V for end-to-end autonomous robotics, perform risk assessments and safety reviews, derive technical safety requirements, and coordinate cross-functional teams to monitor fleet performance and deploy scalable autonomy.

Lead design and implementation of scalable data models and analytical tooling for Consumer Product. Partner cross-functionally to translate business needs into reliable SQL/Python data products, dashboards, and automated pipelines using engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, version control, monitoring). Drive data-informed strategy and manage long-term infrastructure while supporting ad hoc requests.

Evaluate and author high-quality computer science content to improve AI model reasoning and accuracy. Analyze complex CS problems, create scenarios/datasets, review AI outputs for correctness, and collaborate remotely to refine guidelines and documentation.

Co-found and lead a stealth startup building an agentic AI platform embedded in CAD tools to automate geometry updates, feature-tree edits, and cross-tool workflows. Drive product, engineering, and commercial strategy, hire the founding team, and develop a defensible data capture and automation stack for industrial CAD workflows.

Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, partner with hiring managers to define roles, source and close candidates, build scalable systems and pipelines, optimize hiring with data, and support a global, remote people team while acting as a culture ambassador.

The Senior Data Scientist will manage data collection, design study protocols, train juniors, lead report development, and support innovative analytics tools.

Develop and implement AI solutions, optimize models, preprocess data, integrate AI into workflows, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

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.