Top Data Science Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Staff Data Scientist at SentiLink, you will develop fraud detection models, conduct analyses, collaborate across teams, and drive the development of financial risk products.

Build and deploy statistical and machine learning models for the Toast platform. Collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to identify opportunities, develop data-driven solutions, evaluate models, and communicate insights to stakeholders. Work in a fast-paced environment and contribute to production ML systems and experimentation.

Lead product analytics to inform strategy and optimize user experience: translate business questions into analysis, build reliable analytics infrastructure, run A/B tests and ML/statistical analyses, track funnels and cohorts, support 0-to-1 product launches, and communicate actionable insights to cross-functional teams.

Lead design and delivery of scalable ML systems across the full lifecycle for recommendations, demand forecasting, targeting, and personalization. Collaborate with engineers, product, and stakeholders to set architecture, metrics, and production best practices; mentor data scientists; lead experimentation and deploy/monitor models using cloud and MLOps tooling.

As a Data Scientist at SentiLink, you'll develop fraud detection models using machine learning, engage in product development, and support analysis across teams. This role emphasizes hands-on technical work and end-to-end project ownership in a fast-paced environment.

Design and train LLMs and agentic systems for cybersecurity using RLHF/RLAIF and supervised fine-tuning. Build agent architectures, tooling, retrieval/memory, and evaluation pipelines with rigorous statistical benchmarking. Optimize prompts and inference, collaborate with engineers to productionize prototypes, and drive research on agent planning, safety, and reliability.

The Data Scientist will collaborate with teams to shape product strategy using machine learning and econometric models on large datasets, measuring outcomes and designing data-driven solutions.

Entefy seeks a Senior Data Scientist with a Master's or PhD in a relevant field, and 3+ years of experience. Responsibilities include delivering advanced analytics, leading teams, and extracting insights from datasets.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead AI risk assessments, coordinate with stakeholders, and ensure effective AI governance practices for safe financial application deployment.

Design and build ETL pipelines and data integrations, develop LLM-powered RAG systems and AI Agents, manage vector databases, run evaluations and fine-tuning, apply ML for recommendations and analytics, ensure data quality and A/B testing to drive product decisions.

The Senior Data Scientist will build models and analyses, design experiments, integrate datasets, and leverage AI for improved workflows and insights in data science.

Lead experimentation and causal inference at company-wide scale: define methodology, own statistical approaches for small samples and clustered data, apply causal methods when experiments arent feasible, run experiment review, build tooling and curriculum, and partner with analytics and AI/ML teams to ensure decision-grade results.

Lead AML model development, optimization, validation, and governance for transaction and customer screening across banking, brokerage, and lending. Build ML/statistical models, maintain vendor solutions, ensure regulatory compliance, document methodologies, produce AML dashboards, and support audits, risk assessments, and stakeholder communications.

Designs, analyzes, and interprets clinical trial, RWE, and observational data for a medical device. Develops statistical plans, predictive models, and ensures data quality, regulatory compliance, and traceability. Collaborates with clinical, regulatory, and data teams, supports submissions and publications, mentors interns, and represents the company externally.

The Data Scientist II will drive insights, develop models, and analyze product experiments to inform business decisions and improve member experiences in healthcare.

Seeking a skilled Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer to develop machine learning models, design AI systems, and collaborate in data analytics. Responsibilities include productionizing models, data engineering, and cross-functional collaboration.

Design, implement, and maintain marketing inference models (e.g., MMM and attribution). Analyze large datasets and A/B/uplift experiments with rigorous statistics, build predictive and causal models, partner with marketing to generate testable ideas, and communicate insights to drive marketing decisions.

As a Senior Marketing Data Scientist, you will conduct quantitative analyses, manage marketing tests, and provide actionable insights to enhance marketing performance and investment effectiveness.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will analyze large-scale broadband data, develop and validate ML models, and integrate solutions into Calix Cloud, collaborating with teams for enhanced network intelligence and subscriber experience.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you'll design and optimize ML systems for claims handling automation, collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Analyze large marketing datasets, build predictive models for segmentation, pricing, and demand forecasting, support targeted campaigns and retention, partner with product and marketing, apply statistical and ML methods, ensure data quality with engineering, and communicate insights to stakeholders to drive conversion and retention improvements.

The Data Scientist at GenLogs will build machine-learning systems, analyze large datasets, and collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver advanced logistics intelligence solutions.

Develop prototypes, PoCs, and MVPs for GenAI solutions. Apply deep learning and ML principles using Python, Hugging Face, LangChain, OpenAI API, TensorFlow/Keras/PyTorch, and cloud model services. Work with multi-modal data and intelligent agent tools. Be self-motivated, collaborative, and focused on solving hard AI/GenAI problems.

As a Data Scientist, you will analyze blockchain data to derive insights, develop and deploy predictive models, and improve product offerings.

The Marketing Data Scientist will analyze data, onboard clients, develop data pipelines in R, and propose improvements to enhance efficiency.