Top Machine Learning Jobs in San Diego, CA

Develop and test AI software for industrial applications using Python, JavaScript, and C++. Evaluate data, statistics, and algorithms; collaborate with machine learning and data engineers; support end-to-end AI/ML integration; monitor industry trends and regulations; and present progress to leadership and stakeholders.

Lead research, architecture, and production deployment of large-scale algorithms for budget pacing, bid optimization, and marketplace balancing in Yahoo’s DSP. Apply control theory, optimization, and machine learning to real-time systems, while establishing AI-augmented research and engineering workflows. Own multi-quarter initiatives, define evaluation frameworks, guide technical strategy, collaborate with product and engineering leadership, mentor scientists and engineers, and communicate complex research and architectural decisions to executives.

Lead the vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, delivery, adoption, and lifecycle management of an enterprise AI platform. Manage three direct reports and collaborate across technology, cybersecurity, risk, legal, compliance, data, and analytics. Ensure secure, scalable, governed, and responsible AI capabilities while translating business and technical priorities into measurable product outcomes. Drive stakeholder alignment, platform adoption, continuous improvement, executive communication, and team development in a highly regulated environment.

Owns end-to-end development of datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and evaluations for coding agents and software engineering models. Leads engineers, researchers, QA professionals, and data creators; establishes quality processes, pipelines, validation, and review workflows. Collaborates directly with frontier AI labs, fine-tunes models, builds benchmarks, develops automation and internal tools, and supports customer-facing enablement. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, engineering management, operational execution, research, and industry thought leadership.

Analyze emerging AI workloads and build analytical performance models and architecture simulators for current and future AI inference accelerator hardware. Collaborate with hardware, compiler, inference server, kernel, and product teams to validate assumptions, identify HW/SW optimization opportunities, incorporate architecture research, and document methodologies. The role is a hands-on technical contributor focused on performance analysis across the hardware/software boundary.

Leads and manages an applied machine learning team developing fraud detection and identity verification models. Responsibilities include people management, coaching, code review, production ML systems, model lifecycle ownership, experimentation, deployment, monitoring, fraud research, cross-functional prioritization, and communicating results. The role remains hands-on while partnering with Product, Engineering, Risk, and leadership to drive measurable business impact and shape future product strategy using machine learning and AI.

Leads an applied machine learning team and owns fraud detection and identity model strategy, development, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Partners with Product, Engineering, Risk, and senior leadership to set priorities and deliver business impact. Provides technical mentorship, reviews code, guides modeling and architecture decisions, researches fraud patterns, develops ML capabilities, and shapes responsible AI use under data governance and security constraints.

Lead the strategy, design, deployment, and scale-up of AI-powered health products across the Global South. Own product roadmaps, execution, government-system integration, stakeholder adoption, partnerships, grant development, and portfolio expansion. Collaborate with engineering, machine learning, program, and domain teams to deliver sustainable, measurable public-health impact.

Build and deploy agentic and generative AI systems that automate risk and compliance investigations. Own full-stack ML systems, including data integrations, prompt tuning, orchestration, evaluation, productionization, monitoring, and transformer-based modeling across transaction, graph, text, and profile data. Collaborate with product, engineering, platform, and operations teams while leading strategic roadmaps and delivering scalable production systems.

Participants are needed for an AI technology research study, offering compensation up to $600 for ~1.5-2 hours of participation over one week, requiring skills in tech-related roles.

Build and deploy agentic and generative AI copilot and autopilot systems for risk and compliance automation. Own end-to-end ML systems, including data integrations, prompt tuning, orchestration, evaluation, productionization, monitoring, and transformer-based model development. Collaborate with product, engineering, platform, and operations teams to improve fraud detection and analyst productivity. Drive strategic roadmaps and cross-functional programs with significant business impact.

Design, implement, and deliver user-facing enterprise software and GUI applications in an Agile environment. Develop Java/JEE microservices, integrate web services/JMS/XML, collaborate with cross-functional teams, follow SDLC, and support testing, DevSecOps and deployment. On-site role with occasional travel and strict security clearance requirements.

Performs advanced physical and remote insurance premium audits for business clients. Reviews business records, interviews owners and managers, investigates exposures, documents findings, prepares written audit reports, schedules assignments, communicates results, and submits completed work for quality review. The auditor must manage deadlines independently, correct returned audits, maintain accurate records, and use Microsoft Office applications. This remote role requires reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license, strong analytical and communication skills, and at least five years of premium insurance auditing experience.

Leads the company’s adoption of AI, analytics, automation, and business intelligence. Builds AI-powered workflows, Excel solutions, natural-language data interfaces, dashboards, forecasts, predictive analytics, and automated reporting using Snowflake, SQL, Tableau, and related tools. Partners across business functions to identify opportunities, improve data quality, automate repetitive processes, and deliver scalable decision-support solutions. Establishes responsible AI practices and advances an AI-first analytics culture.

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.

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.

Build and operate production machine learning training systems on Amazon SageMaker using AWS Trainium. The role focuses on optimizing PyTorch code for Trainium hardware, understanding NeuronCore compilation, diagnosing device-level issues, tuning distributed training for cost and throughput, and delivering production pipelines. The engineer will collaborate directly with client and internal teams in a forward-deployed engineering environment.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.