Top Data Science Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Own the reliability and quality of an AI copilot for trading platforms. Build evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, quality gates, monitoring, incident response, and model improvement loops. Partner with engineering and product on safe tool interactions, auditability, and user trust. Develop trading-domain expertise and measurement systems covering correctness, safety, latency, regression risk, and workflow performance.

Lead complex modeling projects combining deep learning, LLMs, and traditional techniques. Prototype, deploy, and monitor production models, mentor data scientists, collaborate with engineering/product, and translate results into business impact for insurance customers.

Lead pricing modeling and experimentation to optimize margin, conversion, and retention. Build elasticity and willingness-to-pay models, run causal and bandit experiments, decompose merchant economics, and develop agentic deal tooling. Own end-to-end data pipelines, ETL, monitoring, and visualization. Evaluate AI systems for accuracy, bias, and drift, and partner with cross-functional teams to translate results into pricing strategy and automation.

Own the reliability and quality of an AI copilot for a trading platform. Build evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, quality gates, monitoring, incident response, and model improvement workflows. Partner with engineering and product to create safe, auditable tool interactions and improve assistant behavior. Develop domain expertise in trading, risk, margin, execution, and portfolio reasoning while operating across model, backend, and frontend systems.

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.

Own product analytics for a healthcare platform by translating business questions into research plans, uncovering insights, modeling feature impacts, defining success criteria, and leading A/B testing. Partner with Product, Data Engineering, Finance, Clinical, and Operations teams to influence roadmap decisions, improve provider experience and quality, and optimize marketplace performance.

Develop and implement data science strategies for machine learning applications including lead scoring, churn modeling, pricing, personalization, and fraud detection. Own end-to-end initiatives spanning data analysis, feature engineering, model training, inference, and monitoring. Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, analytics, and business teams to deliver measurable impact, improve data capabilities, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Support data-driven decision-making by collecting, cleaning, and analyzing structured and unstructured data, performing EDA, assisting in building and validating ML and statistical models, creating visualizations and dashboards, documenting findings, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Develop and deploy machine learning, AI, causal inference, and statistical solutions for advertising measurement products. Build prototypes, conduct experiments, analyze large-scale data, and advance attribution capabilities from early concepts through production. Collaborate with engineering, product, analysts, and account teams to improve measurement and marketing ROI. Responsibilities include owning measurement products, applying Bayesian and marketing models, writing production code, and communicating methodologies and findings to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Develop AI and machine learning solutions for fraud, anomaly detection, semantic search, entity resolution, and investigative analytics. Build and operationalize models across structured and unstructured data using AWS data lakehouse services, generative AI, NLP, graph analytics, and document intelligence. Evaluate model performance, explainability, monitoring, and risk scoring while supporting production integration, dashboards, and investigative workflows. Collaborate with technical teams, investigators, stakeholders, and federal clients in an Agile environment.

Develop machine learning and statistical models to identify, measure, and manage credit and fraud risk. Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions, analyze large application and transaction datasets, deploy end-to-end models, and improve risk decision-making. The role requires advanced Python or R and SQL skills, expertise in fraud and underwriting models, model deployment, statistical methods, and mentoring junior data scientists.

Develop, train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor machine learning and statistical models using Databricks, Python, SQL, Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Prepare datasets, engineer features, manage model lifecycles, validate data, and support governance practices. Translate client requirements into scalable analytics solutions, analyze trends, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders while collaborating across data science, engineering, cloud, security, and business teams.

Develops and maintains enterprise data systems, models, schemas, metadata, governance processes, and data workflows supporting the U.S. Navy. Performs data quality validation, ingestion and transformation, forecasting, scenario analysis, and risk assessment. The role also automates data processing, recommends architecture improvements, collaborates with technical and nontechnical stakeholders, and provides expertise in enterprise data management.

Analyze large datasets, identify meaningful patterns, develop machine learning models, and deliver actionable insights for business decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs, communicate findings clearly to stakeholders, and stay current with advances in data science and AI technologies.

Drive product and business impact through statistical modeling, experiment design, Bayesian marketing analysis, machine learning, NLP, LLM applications, and classifier implementation. Build growth metrics, monitoring pipelines, evaluation datasets, and AI trigger systems across search and Duck.ai. Analyze privacy-constrained data, deploy production-grade models, optimize SQL queries, and lead complex projects from scoping through production with minimal direction.

Lead the development of statistical and machine learning models for time-series and geospatial data. Build analytic solutions, datasets, ETL workflows, forecasting and anomaly-detection models, simulations, visualizations, and reports. Evaluate algorithm performance, optimize classifiers, document processes, and collaborate with engineers, analysts, mission partners, and stakeholders to deliver reliable mission-focused software and data capabilities.

Develops statistical and machine learning models for kinematic behavior detection using live, historical, time-series, and geospatial data. Responsibilities include data integration, ETL, feature engineering, forecasting, anomaly detection, algorithm evaluation, simulation, visualization, reporting, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also contributes to mission-focused software applications, APIs, data workflows, code reviews, troubleshooting, and agile development in a remote-first environment.

Lead statistical and machine learning model development for time-series and geospatial data supporting the FALCON mission. Responsibilities include feature engineering, forecasting, anomaly detection, ETL, dataset creation, algorithm evaluation, simulation, data visualization, reporting, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also contributes to software applications, APIs, data pipelines, code reviews, troubleshooting, and iterative agile development.

Lead a small data science team while remaining hands-on in building advertising audience, measurement, ranking, and data-feed models. Set technical direction, apply causal inference and experimental design, build scalable production systems, mentor scientists, and partner with product, engineering, sales, and business development teams. Translate campaign data into trusted measurement products, influence senior leaders and customers, and establish Fetch’s methodology as a market standard.

Develop fraud-detection and identity-risk machine learning models from problem definition through deployment. Investigate fraud patterns, engineer predictive features, evaluate model performance, and monitor drift across batch and real-time decisioning environments. Collaborate with senior data scientists and engineers using Python and PySpark while supporting model documentation, explainability, privacy, validation, and governance.

Develops predictive models, machine learning solutions, data pipelines, statistical analyses, and internal data applications. The role uses Python and SQL Server to analyze structured and unstructured data, applying NLP, classification, regression, clustering, automation, and AI/LLM techniques. Responsibilities include maintaining data science platforms, supporting cross-functional decision-making, and communicating technical findings to non-technical audiences.

Develops and deploys production machine learning models and data products for enterprise use. Responsibilities include data mining, feature engineering, model evaluation, NLP and LLM/RAG solutions, API and pipeline integration, cloud-based deployment, model validation, A/B testing, documentation, and lifecycle management. The role translates business needs into scalable data science solutions and collaborates with product, engineering, and business stakeholders throughout the SDLC.

Build and scale first-line risk control monitoring systems using statistical analysis, automated workflows, and reusable data science modules. Define risk metrics, investigate control performance, establish thresholds and guardrails, and translate analyses into monitoring applications. Partner with risk, compliance, product, and engineering teams to improve governance, identify monitoring gaps, and support decision-making. Lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives while communicating findings, limitations, and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.

Build and scale first-line risk control performance monitoring for financial products. Develop metrics, key risk indicators, statistical baselines, thresholds, automated workflows, and reusable analytical modules. Partner with risk, compliance, product, and engineering teams to improve governance, identify monitoring gaps, evaluate control effectiveness, and support decisions. Lead ambiguous initiatives from definition through adoption while communicating findings, limitations, and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.