Top Data Science Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Leads advanced data analysis to guide product and business decisions, develops metrics, dashboards, data products, and AI-enabled reporting systems, and translates findings into strategic recommendations. Partners with data engineers on dimensional data models, data governance, and quality controls. Mentors analysts, aligns roadmaps with business priorities, improves problem framing, and communicates insights effectively to technical and business stakeholders.

Lead end-to-end delivery of strategic data science and AI solutions for AI infrastructure. Work with telemetry and experimentation at fleet scale to build, deploy, and measure predictive and prescriptive models. Partner with stakeholders, present insights, enable adoption, and promote responsible AI. Collaborate closely with data engineers and infrastructure teams to productionize scalable ML solutions.

Lead G2’s experimentation practice across products and digital marketplaces. Design experimentation standards, causal inference methods, metrics, guardrails, and analysis approaches; partner with product and engineering to implement experimentation platforms and instrumentation. Build models, design auctions, ship production systems, evaluate modern statistical methods, and address marketplace interference and low-traffic constraints. Mentor data scientists and evangelize rigorous data science practices across the organization.

Leads data science initiatives by analyzing complex datasets, developing and deploying machine learning and generative AI solutions, and applying RAG, fine-tuning, and agentic workflows. Improves healthcare outcomes, Star ratings, care gaps, payment integrity, and member experiences. Collaborates with technical and business teams, communicates analytical findings, documents methodologies, manages projects, and mentors data scientists.

Lead end-to-end data science for customer-embedded, production solutions: acquire and prepare messy datasets, develop and evaluate models tied to business outcomes, run experiments, deploy operational models at scale, coach cross-disciplinary teams, and drive strategy, ethics, and privacy discussions.

Lead end-to-end data science projects: acquire and prepare messy datasets, develop and evaluate models tied to business outcomes, operationalize models at scale, run experiments, drive ethics/privacy, partner with customers and teams, and coach cross-disciplinary colleagues.

Lead high-impact modeling initiatives using deep learning, LLMs, and traditional methods. Prototype, deploy, and monitor hybrid models on large insurance datasets, drive MLOps standards, and communicate results to nontechnical stakeholders to realize business impact.

Lead end-to-end development and deployment of predictive and hybrid deep learning/LLM models for insurance use cases. Prototype, validate, and productionize models using modern ML frameworks and MLOps, collaborate with product and engineering, and communicate technical results to stakeholders to drive measurable business impact.

Lead and deliver productionized ML solutions across audience, marketing, pharma direct, and employer analytics. Design segmentation, propensity, attribution, and identity models; apply causal inference and experimentation; operationalize models with MLOps; evaluate generative AI/LLM use cases; set technical roadmap and mentor data scientists to drive measurable business impact.

Leads graph analytics, identity resolution, forecasting, and predictive modeling initiatives for operational, commercial, and product decisions. Designs scalable graph data models, production-ready machine learning solutions, and time-series forecasts. Establishes validation, monitoring, governance, and experimentation practices while partnering with product, engineering, and platform teams. Translates complex analytical findings into business recommendations and provides technical leadership across graph science, forecasting, optimization, and decision-support capabilities.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze large-scale customer data, investigate behavioral questions, design and automate studies, and translate findings into actionable recommendations. The role includes maintaining analytics frameworks, documenting methodologies, writing white papers, and communicating insights across the company. Candidates should be independent, comfortable with ambiguity, and experienced with SQL and Redshift. Python or R, machine learning, Spark, A/B testing, and cross-functional experience are preferred.

Develop and validate AI-driven legal product capabilities using NLP, LLMs, generative AI, RAG, hybrid search, and agentic workflows. Analyze large-scale legal datasets, design model evaluation and benchmarking practices, translate experiments into product recommendations, collaborate with product, legal, and engineering teams, and mentor data scientists while providing technical leadership.

Build and deploy production-grade LLM applications, AI agents, models, and scalable RAG pipelines for investment and business workflows. Architect secure MCP integrations with enterprise systems, establish MLOps and LLMOps practices, optimize model performance and latency, and develop evaluation, monitoring, governance, and rollback processes. Collaborate with data engineering and platform teams to provide secure, governed access to organizational data.

Lead data science engagements with customers to acquire, clean, analyze, and model data; develop scalable operational models and evaluation methods; coach engineers on best practices; drive solution strategy, ethics, and industry thought leadership; write extensible code and collaborate across teams to deliver cloud-based AI solutions.

Partner with product engineering to design and analyze experiments, apply causal reasoning and statistical modeling to marketplace data, and drive data-informed product decisions across the engineering org.

Lead the data science strategy for deployed humanoid robots: build predictive maintenance and reliability models, drive fleet performance and RaaS economics analysis, develop anomaly detection and RCA tooling, link manufacturing test data to field outcomes, and set instrumentation, experimentation, and data-quality standards across hardware, software, manufacturing, and operations.

Lead evaluation and data strategy for advanced AI, vision, and perception systems. Define metrics, build evaluation frameworks, audit artifacts, prioritize fixes, and translate model behavior into product decisions and data-improvement loops to ensure production readiness and downstream usefulness.

Provide analytics and data-driven insights for CoverMyMeds clients, prioritize work that drives commercial outcomes, build relationships with account teams, apply statistical and predictive methods, monitor portfolio health, deliver client-facing visuals and recommendations, support complex requests and escalations, and inform strategic decisions across product, analytics, and operations.

The Principal Data Scientist will design, develop, and deploy machine learning models, innovating methodologies and collaborating across teams to enhance financial decision-making and risk management.

Own the analytical function for a business area such as growth, product, AI and automation, or strategic partnerships. Define business problems, metrics, reports, analyses, and experiments; generate actionable insights; communicate recommendations; and drive decisions and outcomes with cross-functional stakeholders. The role requires strong SQL or Python skills, independent data work, analytical problem-solving, and leadership-level influence.

Own end-to-end data science for a core business area such as growth, product, AI and automation, or strategic partnerships. Define business problems, metrics, reports, analyses, and experiments; surface insights; and drive recommendations and decisions with cross-functional stakeholders. The role requires independent data work, strong analytical thinking, clear communication, and ownership of ambiguous problems that deliver measurable business impact.

Leads technical support for VA healthcare AI citizen developers, developing and validating supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning models. Builds synthetic healthcare data cohorts, designs secure cloud-based data science workflows, collaborates with federal stakeholders, interprets analytical results, mentors developers, and ensures model quality, documentation, privacy, governance, and regulatory compliance.

This role involves analyzing EHR and insurance claims data to define clinical outcomes, developing AI models, and collaborating with technical experts for manuscript preparation.

Analyze microbiome and longitudinal clinical datasets, develop microbiome metrics and biomarkers using statistics and machine learning, create visualizations and reports, draft clinical research documents, support product and study development, and contribute to scientific publications and proposals.

Lead end-to-end data science for a priority vertical (Insurance), building, validating, and deploying ML models that drive ROAS and lead quality. Partner with stakeholders and ML engineering to monitor live performance, iterate models, and identify new modeling opportunities to improve revenue and media efficiency.