Top Machine Learning Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

Lead technical vision and roadmap for a company-wide ML platform: define reference architectures, MLOps best practices, security, observability, and integrations; mentor engineers and drive cross-team platform initiatives.

Design, build, and deploy K-12 AI features (lesson planning, grading, tutoring, admin analytics) while ensuring FERPA/COPPA compliance and child-safety guardrails. Measure impact, iterate with curriculum and legal partners, and maintain production-grade documentation, testing, and runbooks for deployed AI systems.

Design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art deep learning models for multimodal and satellite imagery; own ML architecture, infrastructure, model registries, and inference services; mentor the team, translate product vision into technical roadmaps, and integrate research into production-ready, scalable geospatial AI systems.

Lead end-to-end architecture and delivery of production ML and generative AI platforms on Azure and Microsoft Fabric. Define MLOps, CI/CD, governance, observability, retrieval/LLM patterns, security, cost controls, and operational handoff. Work with data scientists and engineers to translate requirements, defend tradeoffs, and ensure systems run unattended in production.

Work as a hands-on junior ML engineer building generative AI apps, traditional ML models, and MLOps solutions. Implement and maintain model training, inference pipelines, and LLM systems while being mentored by senior engineers and delivering client projects.

As a Fraud ML Engineer, you will ensure authentic human data is processed by building detection systems using adversarial ML techniques and managing backend systems.

Develop and deploy advanced ML solutions for OCR and NLP, optimizing models for performance and integrating them into production workflows while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design and improve ML training frameworks, modularize experiments, adapt fire-hazard detection algorithms for varied electrical environments, build scalable pipelines for high-frequency sensor data, and develop dashboards and tooling to monitor model performance and drift while collaborating across product, data science, and fire safety teams.

Design, build, and operate ML infrastructure powering data, compute, artifacts, and orchestration across cloud and on-prem. Own backend services, storage, observability, security, and developer tools; collaborate with cloud/compute providers and lead reliability and scaling efforts.

Translate cutting-edge ML and physics research into production-grade scientific code, architect and scale large-scale simulation and training pipelines on GPU infrastructure, optimize hardware-level performance, and support models throughout the product lifecycle to accelerate in silico drug and materials discovery.

Build and re-architect Shipt's LLM-native search stack including retrieval and ranking systems. Design multi-task and multi-objective models, integrate personalization signals, develop hybrid dense/sparse retrieval, and apply generative retrieval and query expansion. Analyze search data, report findings to leadership, and partner with senior scientists and ML engineers to improve relevance, revenue trade-offs, and operational metrics.

Lead a team of data scientists developing ML-driven products, managing infrastructure, training models, and ensuring production quality while collaborating with senior leadership.

The AI/ML Engineering Manager leads a team of ML engineers and architects, managing hiring, performance, and customer engagements while providing technical guidance in ML operations and architecture.

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Grailed will enhance personalization and recommendations, develop AI/ML solutions, and collaborate across departments for data-driven insights.

Build and maintain MLOps pipelines, deploy and monitor ML models as scalable services, transform and integrate healthcare data (FHIR/HL7), ensure reproducible feature management, and uphold HIPAA/HITRUST security for production ML in clinical systems.

As an AI/ML Presales Solutions Architect, you will engage with clients to identify problems, create feasible AI solutions, and partner with sales to ensure project delivery aligns with capabilities. You will leverage your extensive experience in AI and cloud platforms to shape presentations and technical discussions with clients.

Design, build and deploy production AI/ML solutions from complex, distributed farm data. Engineer features, select models, run experiments, move models to scalable real-time production, monitor and observe AI systems, evaluate emerging AI technologies, and collaborate with product, engineering and domain teams. Contribute to user-facing features with React/TypeScript as needed.

Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI/ML solutions that convert complex, distributed farm data into actionable intelligence. Engineer features, select models, run experiments, and move models to scalable, real-time production. Integrate, fine-tune, monitor, and observe models on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Databricks). Partner with product, engineering and domain teams and contribute to user-facing experiences when needed.

Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models and scalable MLOps pipelines. Collaborate with data engineers and product teams to build, monitor, and optimize production ML systems, document experiments, and identify ML opportunities.

Optimize and deploy multi-modal models (transformers, diffusion, VLMs) to run on-device across mobile and desktop. Own export, quantization, kernel tuning, runtime integration, and profiling to meet strict latency, memory, and power budgets. Build packaging, benchmarking, and telemetry; partner with research to productionize models and mentor junior engineers.

Design, build, and operate ML infrastructure for training, evaluation, deployment, and inference. Improve reliability, scalability, latency, throughput, and cost. Create pipelines, observability, benchmarking, and tooling to enable fast experimentation and productionization of models while diagnosing regressions and bottlenecks.

Design, evaluate, and productionize generative AI/ML solutions (RAG, agents, embeddings, retrieval). Build evaluation frameworks for hallucination detection, benchmark LLMs, optimize prompts/models, create datasets, fine-tune models, and collaborate to deploy and monitor enterprise-scale GenAI systems.

Lead development of scalable AI/ML capabilities for Mail Intelligence: build LLM- and ML-based personalization, data pipelines, tools, and observability. Mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, run A/B tests, implement feedback loops, and balance cost/quality/speed tradeoffs to deliver production-grade solutions.

Design, build, and deploy scalable distributed deep learning pipelines and infrastructure. Optimize hardware utilization, profile and benchmark training, manage large datasets, and enable reproducible ML workflows in cloud environments. Collaborate with ML scientists and engineers to align pipelines with research goals and drive performance, reliability, and operational best practices for large-scale model development.

Paid 3-month remote contract for students or recent grads to build and test LLM-based solutions using the Token Factory inference platform. Assist senior SAs with prompt engineering, model selection, benchmarking, and inference optimization. Run performance and quality experiments and contribute to internal tooling and automation. Mentorship provided; strong performers may be considered for full-time roles.