Top Machine Learning Jobs in San Diego, CA

Leads Pfizer’s US LORBRENA and BRAFTOVI/MEKTOVI lung portfolio, owning multi-year commercial strategy, AI-enabled precision targeting, lifecycle execution, market access coordination, performance measurement, and promotional activities. Manages senior marketing leaders, aligns cross-functional teams, influences enterprise strategy, and drives growth among biomarker-defined NSCLC populations. The role requires advanced pharmaceutical marketing experience, oncology or precision-medicine expertise, analytics fluency, and approximately 20% domestic travel.

Lead GitLab’s company-wide strategy for autonomous, agentic software development workflows. Identify and validate AI opportunities across the SDLC, build prototypes and reference architectures, establish evaluation frameworks and safety controls, and drive internal adoption. Partner across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, and Data and ML teams to scale reliable, observable, compliant agentic capabilities into customer-facing products. Mentor senior technical leaders and represent GitLab externally on AI-assisted development and productivity measurement.

Leads high-visibility product programs focused on market adoption, analyst relations, customer advisory boards, executive briefings, and industry events. Translates technical product roadmaps into compelling market value propositions, synthesizes analyst and customer feedback, and provides actionable insights to product leadership. Partners cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, and executive stakeholders while supporting strategic initiatives and external-facing communications.

Leads technical customer engagements for strategic enterprise accounts, combining solution engineering, software implementation, consulting, and sales support. Responsibilities include discovering requirements, designing and documenting SailPoint solutions, conducting foundational implementations and proof-of-value engagements, educating customers on architecture and best practices, and developing AI-enabled demonstrations and agentic solutions. The role collaborates across sales, product, professional services, partners, and customer success, and may require up to 15% travel.

Build and operate production machine learning systems for Safety AI, including low-latency APIs, data pipelines, model serving, evaluation, monitoring, and rollout infrastructure. Process large-scale camera and telematics data, optimize cloud and edge-to-cloud execution, track model performance and drift, and partner with applied scientists, firmware engineers, platform teams, and product managers to deliver reliable safety features.

Own the strategic vision and roadmap for Coursera’s AI-driven search experience. Lead conversational search, personalization, semantic and multilingual search, ranking, and discovery improvements. Partner with engineering, design, research, data science, ML, marketing, and partnerships teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities. Use experimentation, market analysis, KPIs, and customer insights to improve conversion, merchandising, learner experience, and revenue.

Engineer AI-powered threat detections, automated response playbooks, and continuous adversary emulation. Apply machine learning and LLMs to security operations, conduct threat hunting and AI red teaming, map coverage to MITRE ATT&CK, and develop detection-as-code through CI/CD. Build production-grade Python integrations, measurable containment capabilities, and safe autonomous defenses with guardrails. Mentor security professionals and collaborate across threat response, cyber defense engineering, and platform teams.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

Lead technical direction for maritime autonomy capabilities across multiple programs. Develop motion planning, localization, tracking, safe maritime behaviors, COLREGS-compliant operations, and heterogeneous multi-agent collaboration for USVs, UUVs, and UAVs. Build and integrate high-performance, rigorously tested software; support deployment, vehicle testing, demonstrations, and mission-log analysis. Mentor engineers, guide architecture and roadmaps, research new algorithms, and collaborate across perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and operational test teams. Travel is typically about 25%.

Develop and deploy autonomy software for unmanned surface, underwater, and aerial vehicles in maritime missions. Responsibilities include motion planning, localization and tracking, safety assurance, COLREGS adherence, multi-agent coordination, distributed optimization, rigorous software testing, platform integration, deployment support, mission-log analysis, and autonomy R&D. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration, customer and demonstration support, roadmap development, and mentoring junior engineers. Travel is typically approximately 25% annually.

Leads Toast’s AI and analytics strategy for Enterprise Care. Owns the roadmap, evaluates and deploys AI-assisted support tools, develops operational intelligence products, and partners with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to move pilots into production. Establishes complexity and workload intelligence, assesses AI readiness, translates AI performance into measurable operational outcomes, and builds organizational AI literacy. The role requires extensive enterprise support or service-delivery leadership, hands-on production AI experience, operational data fluency, and the ability to drive trusted adoption among agents and executives.

Build and productionize traditional machine learning models, owning feature engineering, validation, deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining. Develop LLM-powered agentic tools, dashboards, self-serve analytics products, and automated insight pipelines. Partner with engineering and business stakeholders, write production-grade Python and SQL, drive adoption, improve data quality, and establish responsible AI workflows for a regulated industry.

Own and improve Headway’s privacy program across HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, state privacy laws, individual rights, incidents, vendor governance, and AI use. Maintain controls, data maps, metrics, training, and operational workflows. Conduct product, vendor, and AI privacy assessments; manage rights requests and incident investigations; coordinate notifications and regulatory submissions; and translate complex requirements into practical guidance for cross-functional teams.

Own the strategy and roadmap for patient-provider search, retrieval, ranking, and marketplace matching. Lead experimentation, objective functions, evaluation, and ML platform foundations while partnering with ML engineers, data scientists, design, clinical teams, and executives. Improve successful, lasting care matches rather than optimizing only clicks or bookings. Balance patient access, provider growth, clinical quality, and payer priorities, while setting the standard for technically grounded product management.

Develop autonomy evaluation metrics, statistical and machine-learning analyses, dashboards, and pipelines for simulation and on-road autonomous vehicle testing. Analyze perception, prediction, and planning performance; identify anomalous behavior and critical scenarios; apply VLMs and LLMs where appropriate; and support release gating and safety decisions. The role requires production Python, C++ debugging, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and rigorous software engineering practices.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Serves as the technical bridge between customers, Sales, and technology teams. Leads technical discovery, solution architecture, demonstrations, workshops, proofs of concept, and evaluations using HERE data, APIs, mapping, routing, spatial analytics, cloud, AI, and enterprise integration. Partners with Sales to qualify opportunities, reduce technical risk, develop proposals and reusable presales assets, and guide customers toward location-intelligence solutions.

Analyze malware, binary files, customer detection tickets, and machine learning detections to improve detection efficacy and reduce false positives. Review product detections, assess binary legitimacy, address internal detection questions, and provide insights to data science teams. The role collaborates with technical account managers, incident response teams, data scientists, and malware researchers. Required capabilities include malware analysis, reverse engineering, Python scripting, binary fundamentals, threat assessment, research methods, operating systems, and AI-assisted workflow improvement.

Lead AI engineering teams to design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI solutions. Manage client relationships, plan and deliver projects, mentor staff, drive adoption of cloud-native microservices, CI/CD, vector databases and orchestration tools, and ensure high standards of quality, innovation, and compliance.

Develop, test, and integrate AI software for aerospace and industrial applications. Interns will use Python, JavaScript, and C++ to build AI solutions, evaluate data and algorithms, collaborate with machine learning and data engineers, monitor AI trends and regulations, and present progress to leadership and stakeholders.

Design and lead the technical strategy for search across Vannevar’s products. Build and improve full-text, vector, and LLM-powered retrieval systems, optimizing latency, relevance, index quality, freshness, and performance. Collaborate with ML, product, design, and mission strategy teams to translate user needs into search innovations. Apply expertise in information retrieval, NLP, machine learning, indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, vector search, and evaluation frameworks.

Lead Runpod’s Americas sales organization and revenue number across new business, expansion, and renewals. Manage and coach Account Executives and Account Managers, oversee forecasting and pipeline, lead complex enterprise deals and contract negotiations, build regional go-to-market strategy and sales playbooks, and convert product-led demand into revenue. Partner with Marketing, Product, Legal, and Finance while improving sales efficiency through AI and developing a remote-first team.

Own the end-to-end architecture, development, deployment, evaluation, and operations of AI and machine learning systems. Build predictive ordering models, agentic workflow copilots, retrieval and evaluation infrastructure, safety guardrails, and responsible AI practices. Prioritize AI initiatives based on business outcomes, establish model governance and production standards, advise product and engineering leadership, and mentor experienced contributors.

Own the strategy, roadmap, packaging, and go-to-market evolution of Pluralsight’s AI, Cloud, and Security learning solutions. Design blended learning programs, define expert perspectives, identify content and lab components, monitor market needs, and use customer and learner data to improve outcomes. Partner with Product, Sales, Marketing, Curriculum, Engineering, and Services teams, support strategic enterprise deals, manage solution benchmarks, and drive adoption, renewals, and revenue growth.

Develops and validates machine learning and statistical models for anti-money laundering, transaction monitoring, customer screening, and risk rating. The role evaluates AML data quality, integrates vendor solutions, maintains governance and regulatory documentation, leads model lifecycle quality control, and reports performance through management dashboards. It also supports AML risk assessments, audits, regulatory examinations, and cross-functional stakeholder coordination.