Top Machine Learning Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

Lead AMP's multidisciplinary engineering organization to define and execute technology vision and roadmap. Responsible for scaling teams across hardware, software, AI, and infrastructure; driving product development, quality systems, and reliable deployments; partnering with execs and cross-functional teams on budgets, prioritization, and metrics; recruiting and mentoring leaders; and balancing short-term delivery with long-term investments to create business value.

Coach approximately 20 AI fellows across multiple host organizations through production engineering work. Responsibilities include reviewing pull requests, providing written feedback, conducting 1:1s, leading milestone reviews, delivering curriculum modules, facilitating technical sessions, supporting assessments, identifying cohort-wide issues, and escalating technical or performance risks. The role requires AI-native engineering practices, strong asynchronous communication, and occasional evening sessions across U.S. time zones.

Develop and optimize full-funnel, multi-channel demand generation campaigns that generate pipeline, accelerate deals, and support cross-sell and upsell opportunities. Partner with product marketing, sales development, content, product, field, partner marketing, and analytics teams. Build lead-nurturing programs, align assets to buyer stages, monitor conversion and ROI metrics, and create dashboards to optimize campaign performance.

The GRC Analyst manages third-party risk assessments, vendor due diligence, security policies, risk analysis, internal audits, and SOC 2 audit support. The role involves maintaining the GRC program, tracking findings, coordinating stakeholders, promoting security awareness, and using AI and machine learning to automate compliance processes. Candidates should have 1–2+ years of relevant experience, strong communication skills, and familiarity with risk methodologies, vendor assessments, policies, and compliance audits.

Leads product strategy and execution for AI training-data capabilities, including data collection, procurement, annotation, human-in-the-loop workflows, quality controls, and feedback systems. Partners with ML Engineering, operations, and subject matter experts to improve model accuracy, throughput, development speed, and cost. Establishes metrics, scales data pipelines, mentors product managers, and drives 0-to-1 initiatives across multiple collection sites.

Develop and support software, automation tools, dashboards, and alarms for cloud infrastructure, cost attribution, and cloud efficiency. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior engineers to design reliable systems, APIs, databases, tests, and AI agents. Contribute to architecture and automation strategies while maintaining strong security, communication, and delivery practices.

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.

Develops compliance analytics for AML, sanctions, and consumer compliance programs. Builds data pipelines, dashboards, scorecards, automated reporting, and data quality processes using dbt, GitLab, Python, SQL, Tableau, and Snowflake. Translates regulatory requirements into actionable insights, risk indicators, and metrics while communicating findings to senior management and regulatory stakeholders.

Leads the strategy, technical direction, and delivery of insurance data science across pricing, underwriting, cost modeling, demand modeling, and growth. Oversees predictive modeling standards, model lifecycle governance, engineering collaboration, regulatory alignment, and production deployment. Builds and develops a high-performing data science organization while partnering with actuarial, product, underwriting, pricing, and executive leadership to connect analytical work with profitability and business outcomes.

Lead go-to-market strategy for Sprout Social’s AI portfolio, including the Trellis AI agent. Develop enterprise launch playbooks, positioning, executive messaging, campaigns, and enablement programs. Analyze market and competitive dynamics, influence product roadmaps, improve launch processes, and partner with Product, Sales, Revenue, Brand, and executive leadership to drive adoption, revenue growth, deal expansion, and category leadership. The role also mentors marketing team members and operates with substantial autonomy.

Leads technical direction for GitLab’s Core DevOps services, covering CI, CD, planning, and source control. Defines architecture, quality metrics, migration strategies, and technical roadmaps; addresses systemic risk and complex design decisions; prototypes and writes code when needed; partners with Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and Product; adopts AI capabilities; mentors senior engineers; supports incident response and senior technical hiring.

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.

Manage a portfolio of advertisers on the Adflow commerce media platform, building relationships, monitoring budgets and campaign performance, presenting business reviews, coordinating onboarding, recommending optimization strategies, and identifying revenue-growth opportunities. The role serves as the primary client contact, collaborates with internal campaign, media operations, creative, and finance teams, and uses performance marketing expertise and analytics to drive advertiser success and long-term partnerships.

Manage a portfolio of advertisers on the Adflow commerce media platform. Responsibilities include client onboarding, campaign coordination, budget and revenue pacing, performance reporting, business reviews, strategic recommendations, optimization feedback, and identifying opportunities to grow advertising spend and channel distribution. The role serves as the primary client contact while collaborating with business development, campaign strategy, creative, media operations, and finance teams.

Lead agile design and development projects for mobile apps and digital products. Coordinate product, design, engineering, marketing, leadership, and client stakeholders; manage project plans, scope, requirements, backlogs, acceptance criteria, deadlines, workflows, and deliverables. Support scoping and client relationship management while ensuring successful end-to-end software launches and alignment with business objectives.

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.

Develop and operate production ML and AI systems powering patient experiences such as matching, ranking, recommendations, onboarding, and personalization. Build reusable ML infrastructure, pipelines, evaluation, observability, and model-serving capabilities. Provide technical leadership across the ML lifecycle, guide architecture, evaluate custom versus foundation-model approaches, and partner with ML and Patient Engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable AI products.

Leads the AI Engineering team across applied AI features and foundational ML infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing Senior and Staff engineers, hiring and coaching, deploying LLM-powered capabilities, building MLOps and AI observability platforms, balancing product delivery with platform investment, and ensuring privacy, compliance, evaluation rigor, and clinical safety in production systems.

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.

Set the technical vision for data science, lead complex statistical and machine learning model development from concept through production, and architect scalable modeling platforms and pipelines. Develop credit risk, pricing, and loss forecasting models; establish model governance standards; partner with senior leaders; mentor data scientists; and communicate technical strategy to executives. The role emphasizes production deployment, monitoring, cloud architecture, and high-impact decision-making across the business.

Owns analytics and optimization strategy for advertising revenue across Zynga’s mobile game portfolio. Responsibilities include monitoring performance, diagnosing trends, designing A/B tests, identifying monetization opportunities, partnering with product, analytics, and data science teams, supporting AI and ML models, leading cross-functional initiatives, and mentoring analysts.

Leads New York Life’s AI Center of Excellence across frontier AI provider relationships, AI software lifecycle standards, platform architecture, governance integration, talent acquisition, upskilling, and production delivery. Builds and manages West Coast AI engineering teams, evaluates emerging AI technologies, establishes scalable governance and engineering practices, and owns measurable business outcomes from enterprise AI solutions. Provides senior leadership coverage for West Coast partners and coordinates with Home Office leadership.

Develop and maintain production machine learning models, build scalable training and serving technologies, optimize real-time and batch ML pipelines, and monitor model performance and drift. The role involves deep neural networks, recommendation systems, automated retraining, ML research, engineering excellence, and communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences. Candidates need 6+ years of industry ML experience, strong coding skills, and experience deploying neural networks at scale.