Top Data Science Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead advanced research and predictive modeling on residential housing and energy performance data. Apply causal inference, anomaly detection, regression, and model validation to improve Pearl’s SCORE and energy models. Develop new performance metrics, evaluate climate-risk data, collaborate with external research partners, and communicate findings through white papers, publications, and clear stakeholder explanations.

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.

Design, deploy, and manage machine learning models supporting client acquisition, retention, and reactivation. Develop Next Best Action, CRM, paid media, and personalization solutions using LLMs and traditional ML. Design and interpret experiments, analyze large-scale datasets, communicate recommendations to stakeholders, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams on product and infrastructure roadmaps.

Own end-to-end data science for emerging content surfaces, including product experimentation, causal inference, exploratory analysis, metrics, dashboards, and strategic insights. Identify opportunities to grow content supply, creators, and engagement while improving discovery. Lead content data architecture and quality initiatives, develop source-of-truth assets, and apply advanced statistical methods such as quasi-experiments and network testing. Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and Research to influence product direction and communicate findings to diverse audiences.

Own the design and build of a data-quality and assurance function for a large-scale pricing intelligence data lake. Responsibilities include architecting observability, defining quality standards, building anomaly detection and health scoring, instrumenting pipelines, answering customer data-quality questions, and tracing issues to root causes across collection, processing, and source changes.

Develop statistical models, experiments, causal inference methods, and scalable analytical workflows to generate business insights. Partner cross-functionally with Client Experience, Strategy, Marketing, Styling, Support, and Engineering teams to define metrics and improve products. Own analytical initiatives from framing through delivery, communicate executive-ready recommendations, mentor data scientists, and leverage LLMs and AI agents to accelerate analysis and workflows.

Develop and optimize machine learning and statistical models for fraud detection and anti-money laundering. Analyze large datasets to identify fraudulent patterns, build scalable data pipelines and features, evaluate model performance, and collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams. Communicate insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders while maintaining data privacy and security compliance. The role offers significant ownership in building Oscilar’s early machine learning stack within a remote-first startup.

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 deploy AI/ML solutions from prototype through production for CMS, including generative AI, LLMs, RAG, intelligent classification, knowledge management, agentic frameworks, and enterprise integrations. Evaluate AI coding tools, establish AI/ML roadmaps, scale adoption, mentor data scientists, and translate technical concepts for stakeholders and leadership.

Tune AML and fraud detection models using customers’ live transaction data. Investigate missed cases, alert quality, pattern drift, and false positives; validate changes through backtesting and sample review; document regulatory rationale; and present model performance and business value to compliance, risk, and data science stakeholders. Partner with customer teams on account strategy and relay customer-specific or systemic findings to product and model functions.

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.

Designs, validates, and operationalizes predictive, machine learning, and AI models using large structured and unstructured datasets. Performs statistical analysis, develops visualizations and dashboards, presents findings to stakeholders, and integrates solutions across teams. Provides clinical-program analytics, evaluates data science tools, mentors junior scientists, leads concurrent projects, and prepares end-to-end model pipelines for business use.

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.

Build and deploy machine learning models on large healthcare datasets, extract actionable insights, develop scalable data processing systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and communicate findings to stakeholders to improve patient outcomes.

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.

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.

Lead the strategic direction and evolution of Netflix’s company-wide Experimentation Platform. Establish rigorous causal inference and experimentation standards, automate trust and validation practices, consolidate fragmented systems, shape platform product roadmaps, and collaborate with data science and engineering leaders. Translate experimentation needs into scalable tools, influence adoption across teams, mentor colleagues, and ensure reliable experiment allocation, measurement, analysis, and reporting.

Lead product and program analytics for Microsoft skilling experiences: design learner journey/funnel analyses, define success metrics, run experiments and causal analyses, build proficiency/competency models, shape telemetry and scalable reporting, recommend content and curriculum improvements, and mentor other data scientists to drive product decisions and learning outcomes.

Lead design and validation of AI-driven legal product capabilities: develop NLP/LLM and generative AI solutions (RAG, prompts), design agentic workflows, build retrieval/hybrid search strategies with embeddings and vector DBs, analyze large legal datasets, establish model evaluation best practices, translate results into product recommendations, collaborate with product and engineering, and mentor junior team members.

Lead and deliver end-to-end data science projects: design, build, deploy, and monitor ML/statistical models for credit risk, pricing, collections, and fraud. Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate models into production, set model development standards, mentor engineers, and maintain reliable ML pipelines and monitoring systems.

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.

Build and deploy predictive models that drive partner action, analyze conversational and unstructured data using NLP techniques, and monitor model performance in production. Own AI data tooling, evaluation frameworks, in-warehouse model configuration, and reusable analytics foundations. The role also establishes modeling standards, evaluates fairness and limitations, collaborates with engineering and product teams, and prioritizes high-impact work across a lean data organization.

Design, develop, and deploy supervised machine learning models for credit decisioning. Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to create data sources, improve modeling methodology, operationalize models, and manage model evaluation and risk for production systems.