Top Entry Level Machine Learning Jobs in San Diego, CA

Build infrastructure and tooling for AI evaluation, including distributed execution, task-set validation, graders, human-review calibration, statistical reporting, online feedback loops, and offline-to-online analysis. Partner with product, engineering, data, and ML teams to create reliable evaluation workflows that support faster, statistically sound AI product decisions.

Build infrastructure and tooling for AI evaluations, including distributed scoring engines, task-set validation, grader systems, human-review calibration, statistical leaderboards, online feedback capture, and offline-to-online evaluation loops. Partner with product, engineering, data, and ML teams to deliver reliable, observable evaluation workflows that support faster and more trustworthy AI product development.

Develop data science solutions for payments across Square and Cash App. Build AI-powered tools, ETL pipelines, dashboards, machine learning models, experiments, and cloud data systems. Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations to improve payment success, cost efficiency, risk mitigation, and decision-making. Translate business needs into practical solutions, research questions independently, and operationalize data processes and infrastructure.

Develop data tools, AI automations, ETL pipelines, dashboards, and machine learning models for payments. Analyze experiments, optimize payment performance and costs, mitigate risk, maintain data systems and cloud infrastructure, and translate business needs into actionable solutions while partnering with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations.

Leads Utility’s AI practice by defining its roadmap, overseeing AI research and deployment, identifying client opportunities, mentoring AI teams, and establishing responsible AI practices. The role combines technical leadership, product strategy, client advisory, and operational execution across machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent automation initiatives.

Review and annotate robotic-system video footage by identifying objects, movements, events, visual features, and anomalies. Provide feedback to improve video datasets and annotation consistency, collaborate with AI teams on annotation protocols, document observations, participate in quality reviews, and recommend improvements to video capture and labeling strategies.

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 research on improving AI agent training data and evaluations. Manage and mentor research engineers, define research direction, design rigorous experiments, validate data quality, diagnose reward and grading failures, and translate findings into scalable tools, workflows, and standards. Collaborate with engineers, domain experts, and vendors while communicating technical conclusions and tradeoffs clearly.

Build and maintain mission-critical wealth management systems for SMB clients. Design data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data models, warehouses, analytics, and reporting solutions using AWS, Snowflake, Mage AI, and other big data tools. Collaborate with data scientists and analysts on predictive models, statistical analyses, and machine learning algorithms. Develop software with Next.js and Python while working closely with the team and clients on financial-domain challenges.

Provide technical pre-sales expertise for Jumio’s identity verification, KYC, AML, authentication, and risk management solutions. Responsibilities include consulting with prospects, leading technical presentations, responding to RFPs and RFIs, managing proofs of concept, onboarding customers through go-live, delivering customized web and mobile demos, and supporting sales, account management, product, engineering, and marketing teams.

Develop and maintain internal applications and AI agents using Microsoft Power Platform, APIs, databases, Copilot Studio, and Azure. Support Agile delivery, automated testing, enterprise integrations, conversational AI, intelligent automation, security and compliance standards, performance monitoring, documentation, and cross-functional solution design. The role is remote with occasional travel and offers foundational development experience.

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.

Conduct frontier AI research and build research-grade datasets, prototypes, tooling, reinforcement learning environments, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks. Design rigorous experiments, train and evaluate models, investigate synthetic and agentic data generation, and translate findings into scalable products. Collaborate with research, engineering, product, and operations teams, communicate technical insights, contribute to publications and open-source work, and mentor peers. This is a fully onsite role based in San Francisco, Palo Alto, or Seattle.

Conduct original research to evaluate, train, and improve frontier AI systems. Design benchmarks, synthetic-data methods, reliability and hallucination evaluations, verification techniques, and agentic science workflows. Identify research gaps, formulate hypotheses, build experiments and evaluation pipelines, publish findings, and develop new research directions across STEM and AI. The role requires strong Python skills, quantitative reasoning, technical writing, and expertise with modern LLMs.

Build scientific advisory and technical enablement programs for enterprise and research partners adopting an AI materials platform. Engage computational chemists and materials scientists, provide technical guidance, lead workshops and demonstrations, create documentation, notebooks, APIs, and reference materials, and relay partner feedback to AI Research, Chemistry, Product, Marketing, and PR teams.

Lead Cure from company formation through product-market validation and seed financing. Define the market wedge, secure enterprise design partners, shape an AI-native recovery product, establish data and evaluation loops, recruit the founding team, build the company narrative, and lead fundraising. The role requires enterprise AI judgment, commercial credibility, consumer-finance and regulatory understanding, and founder-level ability to create a new category.

Founding CTO will architect and build Cure’s AI-native customer engagement and recovery platform. Responsibilities include developing conversational agents, decisioning and personalization systems, evaluation and feedback loops, enterprise integrations, and secure, explainable infrastructure. The CTO will work with customers, lead product and engineering execution, recruit early technical talent, and establish the organization needed to scale a reliable platform for regulated industries.

Write and adapt technical and non-technical content across social media, blogs, founder communications, and company announcements. Translate research papers and technical findings into accessible writing, maintain distinct brand and founder voices, verify claims, collaborate with stakeholders, repurpose content across channels, and independently manage deadlines for a part-time contract.

Lead and coach the engineering team building AutoReview, an AI-powered mechanical design review product. Partner with Product on roadmap planning, feasibility, estimation, prioritization, and timelines. Maintain technical context to identify risks and dependencies, guide initiatives involving DFM checks, assembly analysis, and bulk workflows, and collaborate with applied ML teams. Establish clear ownership, support engineer autonomy, and help the team navigate evolving customer needs and AI technologies.

Own data quality across systems by designing validation rules, reconciliation processes, profiling workflows, and quality controls. Investigate discrepancies to identify root causes, apply statistical methods to detect anomalies, evaluate machine learning model outputs, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Partner with engineering, BI, and business teams to establish data quality standards, metrics, controls, and reporting practices.

Designs and operates production data infrastructure, ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, containerized AWS services, and graph-based systems. Responsibilities include relational, document, and graph database architecture; data quality and lineage; CI/CD automation; and integration of blockchain, financial, and investigative data. Partners with R&D, data scientists, and investigations teams to deliver production software for federal and commercial clients.

Analyze large datasets, identify meaningful patterns, develop machine learning models, and deliver actionable insights for business decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs, communicate findings clearly to stakeholders, and stay current with advances in data science and AI technologies.

Build privacy and anonymization systems that detect and transform PII, credentials, secrets, and other sensitive information in data used for AI training. Develop detection methods combining rules, statistical models, classifiers, and LLMs; create production data-processing pipelines; evaluate privacy risk and retained utility; and ensure robustness against schema drift, unusual formats, leakage, and adversarial re-identification.

Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, data models, KPIs, and executive scorecards using SQL and healthcare claims data. Analyze trends, anomalies, savings opportunities, compliance risks, and Payment Integrity performance. Partner with business, compliance, clinical, and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable regulatory and operational analytics solutions. Ensure data quality, governance, and reporting consistency while supporting forecasting, root cause analysis, and AI-enabled analytics initiatives.

Lead VSolvit’s Alliant 3 task-order growth strategy by building and managing the opportunity pipeline, qualifying pursuits, analyzing Alliant 2/3 recompetes, and establishing repeatable capture and review processes. Develop Navy-focused opportunities, coordinate with business development, capture, and technical leaders, and deliver measurable milestones during an initial 90-day program.