Top Machine Learning Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

Drive enterprise revenue growth for AI security products across Southern California. Develop strategic sales plans, build relationships with C-level stakeholders, lead complex negotiations, create customized proposals and demonstrations, manage CRM pipelines and forecasts, and represent the company at industry events. The role requires enterprise sales experience in cybersecurity or AI, strong knowledge of AI security concepts, and excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.

Leads a span of approximately 20 engineers while shaping hiring, onboarding, career development, staffing, and engineering enablement across the AI practice. The role is also approximately 50% billable client delivery, providing executive advisory on AI software development lifecycles, governance, agentic deployments, MLOps and LLMOps pipelines, cloud platforms, observability, and production resilience. Requires extensive engineering leadership, organizational scaling, consulting, GCP, and production AI/ML deployment experience.

Build and operate scalable cloud data pipelines, warehouses, transformation layers, and ML production systems. Lead data infrastructure architecture, warehouse performance optimization, DataOps monitoring, CI/CD improvements, data quality testing, and large-scale data product delivery. Collaborate across teams, promote data stewardship, and support batch and streaming pipelines while deploying, serving, and monitoring machine learning models.

Build backend services, APIs, data-processing systems, and frontend features for Northbeam’s marketing intelligence platform. Work on experimentation, near-real-time data infrastructure, AI-powered workflows, data integrations, RBAC, and end-to-end product delivery. Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, designers, and senior engineers while contributing across backend, frontend, pipelines, and infrastructure in a fast-moving environment.

Leads and builds Instructure’s decision science function, including hiring, team development, roadmap ownership, experimentation, causal and predictive modeling, executive insights, and data literacy. Partners with product, engineering, marketing, finance, and executives to guide product, pricing, retention, go-to-market, and operational decisions. Establishes analytical standards, supports data infrastructure, and ensures ethical, privacy-conscious use of student data.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze data to drive product strategy, optimize performance, and support product launches, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Conduct applied machine learning research from problem definition through deployment, developing predictive models, LLM applications, retrieval systems, and agentic workflows. Build rigorous datasets, evaluation frameworks, uncertainty assessments, and monitoring processes. Collaborate with engineering, product, research, communications, and program teams to integrate validated models into reliable products, prioritize AI/ML opportunities, and measure impact across energy, climate, media, public participation, and organizational use cases.

Lead Amazon performance marketing strategy and execution, manage Sponsored Ads and DSP, collaborate with agencies and cross-functional teams, optimize campaigns and budgets, analyze performance with AMC/analytics, and measure commercial impact to drive ROAS and customer acquisition.

Build and deploy NLP and LLM-based machine learning models for an AI-powered risk intelligence platform. Responsibilities include text classification, entity extraction, clustering, topic detection, RAG, agentic workflows, semantic search, model evaluation, production monitoring, retraining, and scalable ML service deployment. Collaborate remotely with data engineers, backend engineers, and product stakeholders on high-volume, multilingual text data.

Own adoption, retention, and expansion across a pooled portfolio of scaled customers through digital-first programs. Provide technical API integration guidance, troubleshoot issues, run demos, and create reusable enablement assets. Design automated customer journeys, webinars, self-service resources, and workflows that accelerate activation. Monitor usage and health data, identify expansion opportunities, report KPIs, and build scalable systems that reduce recurring manual work.

Lead CX data intelligence initiatives using SQL, dashboards, analytical models, and AI/LLM techniques. Analyze customer journeys, operational metrics, churn risks, and retention indicators; develop insight agents and self-service reporting; define CX health metrics; and translate findings into strategic recommendations, process improvements, and experiments. Partner with operations, support, product, data, and engineering teams while maintaining data quality, governance, and documentation.

Own and execute multi-year strategic partnerships with a hyperscaler and an AI lab, aligning technical integrations, commercial motions, and joint go-to-market plans. Coordinate cross-functional teams, run operational cadences, track measurable outcomes (pipeline, ARR, integrations), and represent partnerships to executives while driving hands-on execution and follow-through.

Build and maintain Safari AI’s cloud infrastructure, including production services, system design, reliability, documentation, and security compliance. The role sets technical direction for the cloud stack, collaborates with engineering and operations teams, improves development processes, and delivers incremental features. Candidates should have 4–6 years of software engineering experience, public cloud expertise, and experience taking complex services from concept through production. Streaming processing and machine learning experience are advantageous.

Design, develop, implement, support, and improve financial-system integrations, databases, reporting solutions, and automated processes. Lead technical financial systems projects from requirements gathering through implementation, focusing on Aderant Expert, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, and T-SQL. Collaborate with Finance, IS, vendors, and business stakeholders; troubleshoot complex data issues, optimize database performance, document technical solutions, and support multiple concurrent initiatives.

Conduct independent research on frontier AI evaluation and auditing. Design rigorous evaluations, audit methods, and reproducible experimental pipelines; analyze model capabilities, risks, robustness, and alignment-relevant behavior. Produce audit reports, recommendations, publications, tools, and presentations while collaborating with technical, policy, engineering, and standards teams. The role requires careful handling of confidential information and may involve pilot audits with frontier AI companies.

Own Litify’s AI Call Intelligence product line end to end, including call capture, transcription, summaries, conversational insights, voice agents, and agentic workflows. Define the roadmap, quality standards, guardrails, and evaluation practices; lead client discovery, beta programs, competitive research, backlog prioritization, and cross-functional delivery. Partner with engineering, design, data science, and go-to-market teams to launch products, drive adoption, and measure outcomes.

Leads Sophos’s Americas MSP channel strategy, revenue growth, partner productivity, and operating performance. Oversees recruitment, onboarding, enablement, retention, distribution relationships, recurring-revenue forecasting, strategic negotiations, and program optimization. Builds and coaches direct and matrixed teams while influencing product, pricing, investments, and partner-program decisions. Uses performance data and market intelligence to improve activation, adoption, retention, expansion, and return on investment across cybersecurity managed-service offerings.

Own and scale the company’s global privacy and data protection program. Advise product, engineering, sales, marketing, security, and executives on privacy laws, data transfers, DPAs, AI governance, security commitments, incident response, and regulatory requirements. Manage privacy assessments, data inventories, notices, training, outside counsel, and vendor relationships. Partner with Security and GRC on audits, certifications, breach response, government requests, and customer obligations while building scalable processes and eventually a privacy team.

Lead the Personal Loans portfolio strategy, quantitative analysis, risk-based pricing, deal economics, and profitability initiatives. Manage a distributed analytics and portfolio team across New York and Israel, align strategies with partners, and collaborate with Risk, Product, Capital Markets, and Engineering. Translate complex credit and financial analysis into executive recommendations while optimizing customer conversion, risk-adjusted yield, margins, and lifecycle outcomes.

Leads complex AI client projects from requirements gathering through delivery, serving as the primary client contact and coordinating Sales, Operations, Product, and Engineering. Responsibilities include defining scopes and delivery plans, managing risks, quality, timelines, budgets, profitability, and KPIs, resolving execution challenges, and improving scalable processes for AI project delivery.

Develops and productionizes deep learning and machine learning perception models for robotics and recycling sortation. Responsibilities include experimenting with neural network architectures, designing computer vision solutions, conducting statistical experiments, deploying successful models, collaborating with data, modeling, and cloud infrastructure teams, and improving ML infrastructure.

Analyze and characterize conversational audio data, identify underrepresented areas, and build active-learning and human-in-the-loop workflows. Develop representative benchmarks, automate model adaptation, and create reusable data analysis and scoring systems. Partner with research, engineering, and data teams to run experiments, improve models, organize data, and translate complex findings into measurable product improvements.

Leads a data science team and personally drives analyses, experimentation, and product analytics to identify patient experience improvements. Partners with Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Engineering teams to develop product features, evaluate business and product performance, guide product planning, and translate statistical findings into actionable recommendations. Manages and develops analytical talent while applying data storytelling, A/B testing, marketplace metrics, and retention, conversion, engagement, and churn analysis.

Develops, calibrates, validates, and maintains credit risk models, including PD, LGD, and EAD models, for lending, collections, loss forecasting, capital planning, and stress testing. Analyzes large datasets, evaluates model performance, documents model changes, supports systems testing, and communicates statistical insights to stakeholders and management. Collaborates across the credit union to improve risk-return strategies and reporting.

Leads Lyra Health’s AI/ML engineering roadmap, scales and mentors machine learning teams, and drives production-grade systems for clinical applications. Responsibilities include people leadership, quarterly planning, technical architecture, design reviews, model governance, ML SDLC oversight, and deployment of reliable microservices on Kubernetes. The role partners with product, data science, and clinical stakeholders while ensuring safety, operational excellence, cloud scalability, and compliance for sensitive healthcare data.