Top Machine Learning Jobs in San Diego, CA

Consult as a fractional data scientist for hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices. Lead data science initiatives: build infrastructure, develop and deploy models, create portfolio dashboards, monitor post-deployment performance, and partner with investment teams to turn data into actionable investment insights. Advise on vendor selection, data quality, technology stacks, KPIs, and governance.

Research and prototype AI/ML methods (GenAI, RL, GNNs, CNNs, LLMs) applied to VLSI CAD to automate ASIC/SoC design and implementation. Collaborate with academia and cross-functional teams to evaluate and pilot automation on real designs, improving power, performance, area, and quality.

Develop and prototype AI/ML-driven automation for ASIC/SoC design and implementation, collaborating with academia and cross-functional teams to apply GenAI, RL, GNNs and CNNs to VLSI CAD flows, pilot solutions on real designs, and improve power, performance, area, and quality.

Lead development, training, optimization, and edge deployment of perception models for maritime autonomous vehicles. Curate fleet data, run measurable ML experiments, build data pipelines, establish evaluation frameworks, and integrate models with vehicle software to validate real-time performance on embedded hardware.

Lead research and development of longitudinal health trajectory models and next-best-action decision algorithms. Translate member data into deployable, clinically meaningful models, set evaluation standards, mentor scientists, and collaborate with product, engineering, and clinical teams to productionize and monitor ML solutions that optimize interventions and health outcomes.

Lead client-facing architecture and delivery of production-grade GenAI systems. Design scalable LLM, agentic, RAG, recommender, and LTR solutions, manage client engagements, mentor ML engineering teams, and oversee project lifecycle from discovery to deployment and monitoring.

Develop algorithms and optimizations for inference and compiler stack, enhance performance metrics, collaborate with hardware teams, and publish work on novel approaches.

Develop, fine-tune, and deploy LLMs for NLP tasks; design and maintain large-scale data pipelines; analyze time-series data; implement data-driven models and OCR systems; ensure data quality; collaborate cross-functionally; and research and apply best practices to improve internal data processing tools and infrastructure.

Build and productionize ML models and data infrastructure to analyze millions of chaos engineering experiments, detect and explain failures, recommend automated remediation, and integrate AI-driven failure analysis into Gremlin's product using techniques like causal inference, graph ML, time-series modeling, and reinforcement learning.

Lead architecture and technical strategy for Lyra's ML and generative AI platform. Design training, fine-tuning, and low-latency inference infrastructure (RAG, vector DBs), set ML/AI SDLC standards (dataset lineage, CI/CD, evaluation, monitoring), partner with cross-functional clinical and product teams, mentor senior engineers, deliver prototypes and critical code, and ensure secure, reliable production ML systems.

As a Machine Learning Engineer in Computer Vision, you'll develop AI solutions using advanced algorithms, focusing on image classification, segmentation, and video processing tools.

The Senior Manager, Data Science/ML will lead a team to enhance product innovation through data science, focusing on ML and experimentation frameworks that boost customer engagement. Responsibilities include defining product strategy, building ML models, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape product roadmaps.

Design and build AI assistants for interactive 3D workflows: build NLP pipelines, integrate cloud and client LLMs, design knowledge graphs, fine-tune foundation models, prototype AI features, and improve personalization and system performance.

The Lead AI/ML Engineer evaluates emerging technologies, leads teams in adopting solutions, and provides technical leadership while mentoring junior specialists.

The Senior ML Engineer will automate component placement on PCBs, working on R&D and production using ML and optimization techniques.

As a Senior/Staff ML Systems Engineer at Quilter, you'll design and maintain ML infrastructure for automated PCB component placement, manage data pipelines, and lead systems design reviews while ensuring project efficiency and reliability within a fully distributed team.

The role involves owning and delivering AI-powered features for Calendly, collaborating with multiple teams, and applying machine learning solutions for product enhancement.

Build and operate high-throughput experimentation and recommendation infrastructure. Design APIs and services, use agentic AI workflows (LLMs) for development, ensure performance and reliability, participate in on-call, mentor teammates, and codify AI-native engineering practices.

The role involves managing the ML lifecycle, developing scalable ML systems, and collaborating on AI-first product solutions focusing on Large Quantitative Models.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, develop LLM evaluation frameworks and agentic AI workflows to extract insights from conversations and optimize customer experiences.

Build and expand in-database ML model catalog: implement new model types, ensure framework parity with scikit-learn/Spark ML, optimize training and inference at petabyte scale, extend SQL-level linear algebra, and collaborate across teams to deliver correct, performant ML features and documentation.

Lead development and implementation of AI-driven solutions focused on text classification and NLP. Build and optimize ML models, preprocess and transform text data, combine supervised/active/semi-supervised approaches, create tagged datasets, and provide technical leadership while collaborating cross-functionally to align AI capabilities with product and business goals.

Design, build, and productionize ML systems focused on information extraction, retrieval, ranking, and recommendation. Own full ML lifecycle from feature engineering to deployment, observability, and evaluation. Collaborate with data, infra, and product teams to scale serving for streaming and batch inference and improve models using dataset engineering and graph/embedding techniques.

Design and implement system-level debugging, validation, and observability platforms. Build automated anomaly collection/analysis, visualization and root-cause tools, failure classification and monitoring frameworks. Extend compilers, runtimes and programming interfaces for profiling and instrumentation, improve bring-up and low-level debug workflows, lead cross-functional initiatives, support incident response, and establish debuggability and reliability best practices.

Implement and scale LLM training, fine-tuning, and post-training techniques (RL-based). Build evaluation and data pipelines, debug ML stack issues, optimize training/inference workflows, and ship maintainable ML infrastructure code.