Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead engineering for Fetch’s audience products, building scalable lifecycle services, predictive and lookalike model workflows, identity matching, partner and DSP activation, monitoring, governance, and access controls. Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, guide engineers, and partner with Data Science, Product, and Data Platform to move audience models from prototypes into reliable production systems.

Supports the design, validation, and operationalization of predictive, machine learning, and AI models. Analyzes structured and unstructured data, develops algorithms, validates outcomes, creates visualizations, and communicates findings to stakeholders. Collaborates cross-functionally to integrate solutions and prepares model pipelines for business use. The role also involves statistical analysis, NLP, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and research into emerging technologies.

Leads Utility’s AI practice by defining its roadmap, overseeing AI research and deployment, identifying client opportunities, mentoring AI teams, and establishing responsible AI practices. The role combines technical leadership, product strategy, client advisory, and operational execution across machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent automation initiatives.

Lead agile design and development projects for mobile apps and digital products. Coordinate product, design, engineering, marketing, leadership, and client stakeholders; manage project plans, scope, requirements, backlogs, acceptance criteria, deadlines, workflows, and deliverables. Support scoping and client relationship management while ensuring successful end-to-end software launches and alignment with business objectives.

Lead technical onboarding and enablement for contact center partners, architecting scalable Zendesk, Amazon Connect, and AWS solutions. Provide co-selling support, technical strategy, solution design, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, training, documentation, governance, and mentorship. Collaborate with partners, sales, engineering, and vendors to drive successful implementations, security compliance, innovation, and adoption of AI, automation, and omnichannel contact center technologies.

Own the end-to-end product strategy and lifecycle for AI research products, from model development and user research through launch, pricing, and go-to-market. Partner with research, engineering, design, and business teams to define requirements, ship products, analyze metrics, run experiments, and prioritize features. The role requires strong technical or quantitative foundations, product management experience, SQL and Python fluency, knowledge of machine learning, and experience taking products from zero to one.

Leads Duck Creek Technologies’ Intelligence function, overseeing analytics engineering, business intelligence, reporting, dashboards, metrics, and insight generation. Builds scalable analytics platforms and governance standards, partners with product, AI, engineering, and business leaders, and translates complex data into actionable recommendations. Manages analytics teams and advances enterprise data-driven decision-making, operational performance, and product development.

Own enterprise customer relationships after implementation, driving BigPanda platform adoption, measurable IT operations outcomes, renewals, and expansion. Lead technical customer sessions, health checks, executive reviews, adoption roadmaps, and value conversations. Partner with account teams on renewal risk, upsell opportunities, and technical proof-of-value engagements. Act as the customer’s internal advocate while guiding integrations, troubleshooting, and platform configuration.

Develop and deploy mineral exploration instruments, sensor systems, data acquisition methods, and proprietary software. Integrate geospatial, geophysical, geochemical, geological, and geographic data; build statistically rigorous and physics-based models; identify ore-forming anomalies; and generate 2D and 3D exploration predictions. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, geoscientists, vendors, and external partners to design field programs, deploy sensors, reduce uncertainty, and guide exploration decisions.

Own the roadmap and product decisions for data science products powered by NEXUS. Partner with data scientists, engineering, research, design, and applied AI teams to build self-service workflows, AI agents, MLOps capabilities, and predictive model monitoring. Conduct customer discovery, define requirements and success metrics, prioritize roadmap decisions using data and user evidence, and guide products from discovery through launch and iteration.

Lead product strategy for integrated hardware and software ecosystems serving the public sector. Oversee cameras, IoT, robotics, software, and AI/ML products across their full lifecycle, from concept and NPI through manufacturing, deployment, and end-of-life. Manage and scale the product organization, guide roadmap and P&L decisions with data, develop go-to-market strategies, and align engineering, supply chain, commercial teams, executives, and the Board.

Leads Kaseya’s market and competitive intelligence function, including competitor analysis, market sizing, customer segmentation, Voice of Customer, win/loss research, marketing effectiveness, and predictive analytics. Advises executives on market trends, customer behavior, competitive threats, and growth opportunities. Partners with product, sales, marketing, data science, and revenue operations, embeds insights into sales enablement, and builds a high-performing intelligence team.

Leads company-wide data science priorities, KPI frameworks, measurement standards, causal modeling, scenario planning, and agentic analytical automation. Builds reproducible SQL and Python workflows, validates predictive and causal relationships, establishes trusted metrics, partners with Finance, Product, Commercial, Engineering, and Data Engineering, and mentors scientists. The role drives adoption of governed self-service analytics and communicates assumptions, uncertainty, and business trade-offs to leadership.

Lead architecture and technical strategy for a remote engineering organization building a React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS platform. Mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, drive JavaScript-to-TypeScript migration, design ETL and AI/LLM integration systems, resolve technical debt, and oversee technical design reviews, production support, incident response, hiring, and delivery. Partner with product, clinical, and business stakeholders to build scalable, reliable software.

Lead complex enterprise sales cycles for Workday platform, data, analytics, AI, and extensibility solutions. Build executive relationships with CIOs and CTOs, develop account strategies and pipeline, connect technical priorities to business value, and orchestrate cross-functional sales teams and ecosystem partners. Close large, multi-stakeholder SaaS deals while positioning Workday within customers’ broader IT transformation and technology modernization strategies.

Lead complex enterprise sales cycles for Workday platform, data, analytics, AI, and extensibility solutions. Build executive relationships with CIOs and CTOs, develop account strategies and pipeline, connect technical priorities to business value, and close multi-stakeholder enterprise deals. Collaborate with account executives, presales, product, customer success, partners, and sales support while positioning Workday within customers’ broader technology ecosystems.

Design and operate AI-powered multi-agent systems for incident triage, root-cause analysis, and self-service debugging. Build knowledge bases, ingestion and retrieval pipelines, AWS infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and operational documentation. Partner with platform, operations, software, and domain teams to convert production incidents into reliable AI tools and deploy them into audited production environments.

Develop and deploy machine learning, AI, causal inference, and statistical solutions for advertising measurement products. Own projects from prototyping through production, conduct experiments, explore large-scale data, and collaborate with product, engineering, analysts, and account teams to improve attribution and marketing ROI.

Develop and operate production ML and AI systems powering patient experiences such as matching, ranking, recommendations, onboarding, and personalization. Build reusable ML infrastructure, pipelines, evaluation, observability, and model-serving capabilities. Provide technical leadership across the ML lifecycle, guide architecture, evaluate custom versus foundation-model approaches, and partner with ML and Patient Engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable AI products.

Secure software and cloud environments through threat modeling, code review, vulnerability remediation, security automation, detection engineering, and attack simulations. The role partners closely with Engineering, manages Snyk and Docker Scout findings, integrates security into CI/CD, coordinates third-party penetration testing for SOC 2 and HITRUST, and helps define secure architecture for mobile, data lake, AI, and production cloud systems.

Lead the design and deployment of machine learning, quantitative financial, recommendation, personalization, and generative AI solutions. Architect scalable cloud data pipelines, backend systems, APIs, and ML platforms using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, SQL, Google Cloud, and LLM technologies. Collaborate with research, engineering, product, and business teams to improve search, discovery, feed recommendations, and financial analytics while shaping AI/ML roadmaps and reference architectures.

Manage technology operations across three global studios, including systems administration, infrastructure, technical support, equipment management, business and creative tool administration, vendor coordination, and troubleshooting. Partner with global IT, information security, and privacy teams on policies, compliance, and content security. Drive AI and machine-learning integrations to improve workflows and business efficiency while supporting clients and global technology initiatives.

Serve as lead legal advisor to product, engineering, and technology teams on AI, software, cloud, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and technology transactions. Develop AI governance and responsible-use policies, assess regulatory and ethical risks, negotiate technology and AI vendor agreements, advise on IP and data workflows, monitor global technology regulations, and train employees. The role requires significant legal experience, active bar membership, AI and privacy expertise, and the ability to influence executive and cross-functional stakeholders.

Own and advance Wonderlic’s AI-powered Jobs Engine, using production machine learning and NLP to analyze labor-market data and infer job characteristics at scale. Partner with product, engineering, and I-O psychology teams to integrate responsible AI into assessment and workforce solutions. Apply fairness, explainability, legal defensibility, and rigorous evaluation practices to employment-related AI systems, including generative AI outputs and assessment interpretation.

Leads regional growth across Eastern USA and Canadian retail, wholesale, and distribution markets. Responsibilities include setting sales strategy, managing and coaching enterprise sellers, building C-level relationships, guiding value-based selling, developing ROI cases, improving pipeline forecasting, leveraging AI-enabled sales tools, maintaining Salesforce data, and collaborating with presales, alliances, marketing, customer success, and sales operations.