Top Data Science Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The IT Subject Matter Expert will provide technical expertise and support for enterprise IT initiatives, governance, and modernization efforts within a federal environment, requiring strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Lead design and production deployment of ML models focused on pricing, availability, forecasting, and optimization. Build data infrastructure, governance, testing/monitoring, and dashboards. Partner with executives and cross-functional teams, mentor others, and establish scalable data-science practices and experimentation frameworks.

Build and deploy machine learning models for credit and fraud risk, analyze portfolio performance, monitor models in production, develop risk strategies, collaborate with engineering and cross-functional partners, and conduct high-impact ad-hoc analyses to inform business decisions.

Build and deploy end-to-end ML models for renter acquisition, supply optimization, ranking, personalization, and marketplace optimization. Lead technical projects from problem framing through experimentation, launch, monitoring, and iteration. Apply statistical methods, causal inference, and rigorous A/B testing. Partner cross-functionally, mentor other data scientists, and raise modeling and experimentation standards.

Develop and deploy deep learning models and petabyte-scale multimodal data curation pipelines for foundation-model training. Responsibilities include document extraction, OCR, layout and table analysis, deduplication, distributed processing, dataset and metric development, experimentation, production scaling, and deployment through NVIDIA Inference Microservices. The role also involves publishing research, creating technical documentation, communicating findings, and mentoring team members.

Lead data scientist responsible for developing, validating, deploying, and monitoring predictive ML models; building scalable data pipelines; performing advanced SQL-based ETL and analysis; partnering with stakeholders to translate business needs into production-ready ML solutions; and contributing to best practices for modeling, governance, and MLOps.

Lead org-wide business intelligence and experimentation efforts: build dashboards and metrics, design and analyze A/B and multivariate experiments, develop predictive and behavioral models, and translate insights into decision-ready recommendations across product and business functions.

Build production AI retrieval and knowledge systems for rare disease research at NIH. Model biomedical ontologies in PostgreSQL, develop semantic search, retrieval-augmented services, ranking, evaluation, and observability, and deliver user interfaces with Next.js, React, and TypeScript. Deploy and operate services in on-premises and HPC Kubernetes environments, including GPU inference. Collaborate with NIH staff, clinicians, and researchers, and contribute to scientific publications.

Build and operate agentic AI systems for rare disease research, including multi-turn workflows, structured and validated outputs, tool calling, prompt testing, evaluation suites, asynchronous execution, streaming, observability, and failure handling. Collaborate with NIH staff, clinicians, geneticists, researchers, and patient communities to translate needs into reliable data models and system behavior. Own components through deployment, establish AI engineering standards, and contribute to scientific manuscripts, abstracts, and conference posters.

The role involves deploying data science solutions in cybersecurity, collaborating with customers and teams to operationalize models and enhance security insights.

Design, validate, and deploy scalable statistical and distributional models for enterprise consumer analytics. Implement rigorous methodologies, convert ad-hoc analyses into version-controlled analytical libraries, and partner with Data Engineering to optimize performance and scale compute workloads (including cloud/Databricks). Deliver reproducible analytics powering dashboards and LLM-driven applications, with a focus on panel and transaction-level consumer data.

Senior individual contributor responsible for leading pet/P&C insurance pricing model development (GLMs and ML), owning end-to-end projects, performing EDA and root-cause analysis, communicating results to stakeholders, and mentoring junior team members.

Develop and tune ML models, productionize and deploy strategies for ML systems, and align cross-functionally to communicate performance metrics.

The Senior Data Scientist will manage data collection, design study protocols, train juniors, lead report development, and support innovative analytics tools.

The Senior Data Scientist oversees data collection and preparation, designs study protocols, leads report development, trains junior employees, and manages project workstreams while collaborating with team members to optimize business performance.

Lead end-to-end machine learning and advanced analytics projects: frame problems, build and deploy predictive/prescriptive models, design ETL pipelines, create dashboards and A/B test metrics, and deliver actionable insights to business stakeholders to improve fleet, pricing, and ridesharing products.

Develop, validate, and improve machine learning models (regression, classification, forecasting, optimization). Prepare data, perform feature engineering, train and evaluate models, and support deployment with Data/ML Engineering. Communicate results, document methods, and collaborate on experiments and cross-functional initiatives.

Lead end-to-end development of fraud and risk ML systems: define problems, engineer features, build and evaluate models, collaborate with product and engineering, deploy with ML engineers, and monitor production performance to detect drift and trigger retraining.

Design, build, evaluate, and deploy predictive ML models across regression, classification, NLP, computer vision, and time-series problems. Perform data cleaning, feature engineering, EDA, model selection, tuning, explanation (SHAP, feature importance), and collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to operationalize and monitor models in production.

As a Data Scientist III, you'll build customer identity systems, develop recommendation models, predictive analytics for customer behavior, and collaborate with ML Ops and Data Engineering.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will lead initiatives to build and optimize machine learning models, collaborate across departments, and solve complex business problems using data.

As a Data Scientist, you will build predictive models, develop software tools, and analyze geoscientific data to support mineral exploration and discovery.

The Data Scientist will develop predictive models, analyze geophysical data, and collaborate with geoscientists to enhance exploration programs, focusing on mineral deposits.

As a Data Scientist, you will develop predictive models, analyze geoscientific data, and collaborate with geoscientists to improve mineral exploration efforts.

Develop autonomous AI agents capable of goal setting, decomposition, planning, tool use, memory, and long-horizon execution. Build evaluation frameworks for alignment, reliability, and safety; identify goal misalignment and undesirable behaviors; and integrate agent systems with APIs, databases, search engines, and other tools. Responsibilities include designing production-ready machine learning systems, collaborating across teams, and advancing agent autonomy through planning, causal reasoning, model-based reinforcement learning, and language modeling.