Top Data Science Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead company-level measurement and causal strategy, define MAU×ARPU metrics and semantic mart, set scientific standards for experimentation and analysis, own strategic models (MMM, elasticity, forecasting), partner with engineering to productionize analytics, and raise org-wide scientific maturity through governance, templates, and upskilling.

Develop and validate SDTM and ADaM datasets using R per CDISC standards, support TLF generation in R/SAS, perform QC and reconciliation, collaborate with statisticians and data teams, contribute to automation, documentation, and version control.

Own and evolve revenue calibration models tying CX interactions to revenue, design causal inference and experimentation frameworks, build LLM-powered classification/NLP pipelines, productionize models with Analytics Engineers, define segmentation and behavioral signals, and ensure statistical rigor for executive reporting and regulatory defensibility.

As a Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer, you'll finetune models, improve data quality, add new signals, and push solutions to production.

The Staff Data Scientist will advance machine learning models to optimize claim audits and improve business outcomes in healthcare.

The Staff Data Scientist will lead the development and deployment of ML and GenAI systems to detect billing errors and fraud in healthcare payments, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Build and productionize ML models and data infrastructure to analyze millions of chaos engineering experiments, detect and explain failures, recommend automated remediation, and integrate AI-driven failure analysis into Gremlin's product using techniques like causal inference, graph ML, time-series modeling, and reinforcement learning.

Perform statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and data visualization on workforce and training data. Build dashboards, produce ad hoc analyses and decision-support products, advise on data governance/privacy, and collaborate with stakeholders to define metrics, deliverables, and reproducible analytic workflows.

Design and deploy ML systems for enterprise search, recommendations, retrieval, and AI agents. Build scalable data/ML pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and metrics. Apply statistics, experimentation, and causal inference to guide product decisions. Collaborate cross-functionally, prototype LLM-based capabilities (embeddings, RAG), and mentor junior team members.

Lead design and deployment of ML systems for enterprise search, retrieval, recommendations, and AI agents. Build scalable data/ML pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and KPIs. Apply statistics, causal inference, experimentation, and analysis to guide product strategy. Prototype and productionize LLM-based features, mentor junior staff, and collaborate cross-functionally.

Deploy and validate NEXUS in customer environments, perform end-to-end data and feature engineering, benchmark against baselines (XGBoost/LightGBM), optimize models for business impact, handle last-mile integrations (VPC/on‑prem/air-gapped), and translate field insights into product improvements while liaising with stakeholders.

Build, monitor, and maintain production ML models and LLM/agent systems. Analyze complex datasets, develop proofs of concept, collaborate with stakeholders, and align work to sustainability business needs.

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.

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.

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

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