Top Data Science Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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 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.

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 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.

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 end-to-end pricing experimentation and strategy for consumer and business products. Design and analyze A/B tests, build pricing models and production-grade data pipelines, partner cross-functionally, and present actionable recommendations to senior leadership.

Analyze billing patterns, healthcare claims, and complex datasets to identify anomalies, audit data integrity, and support Trust and Safety initiatives. Build risk-monitoring pipelines and compliance dashboards using SQL, Python/R, and visualization tools. Translate technical findings into risk assessments for legal, compliance, and executive partners while developing safeguards to protect patients, regulatory standing, and platform operations.

Lead pricing modeling and experimentation to optimize margin, conversion, and retention. Build elasticity and willingness-to-pay models, design A/B and bandit experiments, develop pricing automation (DealBot) and monitoring for AI-driven rate recommendations, own ETL/analysis/visualization, and partner with Finance, Risk, Product, and GTM teams to operationalize pricing intelligence.

Lead design and evolution of large-scale nodal power market models. Define mathematical approaches, develop optimization/forecasting methodologies (MILP, SCUC/SCED), collaborate with engineers to productionize models, work with product and customers to translate market problems into software, mentor data scientists, and guide long-term product strategy.

Lead research and engineering of production-grade LLM/GenAI systems for cybersecurity: design models and architectures, drive data labeling and evaluation, collaborate with product and engineering to deploy scalable solutions, mentor data scientists, set technical strategy, and advance AI safety, red-teaming, and applied ML innovations for detection and operational use.

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 productionize end-to-end fraud and financial risk models: data acquisition, feature engineering, labeling, training, experimentation, deployment, and monitoring. Research new fraud types, drive product development, support data quality and access, and present analyses to inform product, operations, sales, and marketing.

Lead product analytics efforts by designing and evaluating experiments, building dashboards, and producing statistical insights. Partner with product, design, and engineering to measure product success, identify optimization opportunities, and embed ML-driven personalization into the product.

Develops and validates machine learning and statistical models for anti-money laundering, transaction monitoring, customer screening, and risk rating. The role evaluates AML data quality, integrates vendor solutions, maintains governance and regulatory documentation, leads model lifecycle quality control, and reports performance through management dashboards. It also supports AML risk assessments, audits, regulatory examinations, and cross-functional stakeholder coordination.

Evaluate AI model outputs on data science, statistics, machine learning, experimentation, and quantitative problems. Develop expert prompts, datasets, and reference solutions; identify statistical and methodological errors; and provide structured feedback to improve model performance. The role requires Python, machine learning, statistics, data analysis, experimentation, Pandas, and data modeling skills.

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

As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll develop fraud detection models, perform detailed analyses, and work closely with teams to drive product innovation and business outcomes.

Develop machine learning and AI models using clinical, claims, and social determinants of health data to improve pediatric patient outcomes. Partner with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to define requirements, optimize data collection, build data assets, conduct exploratory analysis, and deliver strategic and patient-care insights. Query Snowflake independently and present findings to nontechnical staff.

Develop machine learning and AI models using clinical, claims, and social determinants of health data to improve pediatric care outcomes. The role involves stakeholder collaboration, data asset development, exploratory analysis in Snowflake, model lifecycle ownership, and monitoring model performance, drift, and alerts. The Data Scientist will also communicate findings to nontechnical teams and support business strategy and patient care initiatives.

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.

Lead end-to-end analytics and machine learning efforts for Netflix Ads: build and deploy predictive models and optimization algorithms, perform data exploration, produce datasets and tools, define and validate success metrics, collaborate cross-functionally, and communicate insights to influence product and business decisions.

Analyze and optimize digital partnership performance, growth, profitability, and customer acquisition economics. Design experiments, develop forecasts and performance models, build measurement frameworks, investigate anomalies, and provide actionable recommendations. The role requires translating ambiguous business questions into analytical solutions, communicating insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and establishing scalable analytical processes that support strategic decision-making.

The role involves leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning to assess and mitigate credit and fraud risks, developing scalable modeling solutions while collaborating with stakeholders.

Lead radiometric calibration and image processing for multispectral infrared instruments, commission FireSat satellites, and develop/execute SBEM calibration plans. Implement production-ready pipelines, perform R&D to improve calibration, write production-quality code, and collaborate cross-functionally to maintain operational remote sensing data products and services.

Lead a 5–8 person Data Science team to develop and operationalize FWA detection models using SAS and Python on multi‑payer healthcare claims. Oversee model development, data pipelines, quality reviews, stakeholder presentations, and collaboration with SMEs and BI developers. Split role ~40% management, 60% hands-on coding/analysis.