Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead design, implementation, and scaling of enterprise Palantir data solutions. Oversee cross-functional teams to build data pipelines, integrations, governance, and advanced analytics (ML/AI). Manage project delivery, stakeholder engagement, performance optimization, and mentor senior engineers and analysts while ensuring security and regulatory compliance.

Senior Business Systems Analyst to define requirements for agent-facing servicing applications, design integrations/APIs with core banking systems, translate needs into user stories and acceptance criteria, improve agent workflows and productivity, and identify AI/ML opportunities for fraud detection, automation, and operational analytics. Supports testing, validation, and releases.

Gather and document functional requirements for agent-facing servicing applications, define integrations/APIs with core banking systems, consult with stakeholders, identify AI/ML opportunities (fraud, KYC, automation), support testing and implementation, and act as SME while managing risks and compliance.

Lead procurement strategy and supplier selection for inbound products and services. Manage RFIs/RFPs, negotiate contracts with Legal, administer Coupa purchase orders, reconcile invoices, and apply AI/ML and reporting tools to optimize procurement processes while collaborating with cross-functional senior stakeholders.

Lead technical execution across backend, frontend, mobile, AI, and data. Translate ambiguous product goals into technical plans, unblock hard engineering problems, coordinate cross-domain work, raise engineering quality, define hiring needs and technical evaluation standards, and build internal AI workflows to foster an AI-native engineering culture.

As a Machine Learning Engineer II, you will enhance AI systems for automating customer operations, develop evidence extraction pipelines, and collaborate with teams on model development and deployment.

Design, build, and operate production ML decision systems to detect and prevent payment fraud, account takeover, scams, and other abuse. Integrate diverse signals into low-latency serving and batch scoring, own feature pipelines and model lifecycle, develop AI-assisted triage and feedback loops, and partner cross-functionally to balance fraud reduction with legitimate customer access.

Lead the machine learning strategy, design scalable ML systems, drive MLOps, mentor engineers, and comply with AI governance.

Design, build, and operate production ML systems that generate trusted signals for ranking, retrieval, recommendations, propensity/churn/LTV, and next-best-action decisioning. Define signal/data contracts, own feature and candidate generation through serving, experimentation, monitoring, and feedback loops, and evaluate long-term business impact, trust, fairness, and compliance. Partner across product, data, modeling, risk, and compliance and apply AI/agents to accelerate engineering and operations.

Independently validate and monitor machine learning models for credit underwriting, credit risk, and fraud detection. Identify model weaknesses, recommend improvements, and collaborate with model owners to remediate findings. Support and maintain the Model Risk Management framework and coordinate with Internal Audit, Internal Controls, and Compliance on audit and regulatory requests.

Research, deploy, and maintain AI models and automation solutions; integrate systems and APIs; manage AWS infrastructure and PostgreSQL databases; build BI dashboards; monitor and optimize AI systems and provide technical support.

The AI Executive Partner will advise C-Suite executives on leveraging AI to drive business outcomes, manage member relationships, and deliver innovative AI solutions.

Lead and deliver complex, cross-team AI product programs, drive agent-first SDLC adoption, ensure integration and operational readiness of AI workflows, define metrics, communicate risks and status, and standardize TPM best practices across Product and Engineering.

Design, develop, and implement secure, scalable cloud systems (Azure/AWS); perform system engineering, risk assessments, and NIST-compliant ATO/ATD processes; manage secure data ingestion and orchestration; integrate AI/ML concepts; secure communications and network infrastructure; present technical findings to senior USG leadership and provide hands-on support.

Lead end-to-end healthcare fraud investigations for Clover's Medicare Advantage business. Own caseloads, gather and analyze claims and medical evidence, coordinate legal support, prepare defensible referral packages, leverage AI and analytics tools, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive recoveries and provider actions.

Lead architecture and implementation of high-performance software to deploy and operate AI/ML models for network threat detection. Build autonomous AI agent workflows, production ML pipelines, and services; drive cross-team engineering standards, mentor engineers, and represent technical direction to leadership.

Develop and maintain scalable, performant web applications and data pipelines. Collaborate with engineering managers, product, and stakeholders using Agile practices. Emphasize observability, testing, CI/CD, security, and incremental releases to deliver robust production systems.

Lead GTM technical engagements with data-platform ISVs to design architectures, build POCs, benchmarks, and enablement for NVIDIA acceleration across analytics, databases, and GenAI workflows. Create reference assets, demos, and training while partnering with product, engineering, sales, and customers.

Contribute data science and statistical expertise to design analytical challenges, create high-quality training data, evaluate AI-generated solutions, build evaluation frameworks, and collaborate with researchers to improve LLM quantitative reasoning and model performance.

Design, prototype, and deploy production-ready AI products using ML and generative AI. Lead cross-functional teams, collaborate with stakeholders to solve workflow problems, build scalable prototypes and proofs-of-concept, and apply latest ML/GenAI research techniques.

Own growth and performance for Kits AI across funnel optimization, activation, retention, pricing, and monetization. Productize ML capabilities into creator-facing workflows, partner with research and engineering, run experiments and analytics (e.g., Amplitude), conduct customer research, and leverage AI tools to accelerate shipping and internal insight systems.

Evaluate and strengthen AI model behavior on cybersecurity topics by writing expert prompts, annotating and grading model responses for accuracy and safety, and applying structured guidelines to classify sensitive content. Work part-time on AI safety tasks with emphasis on secure, responsible handling of dual-use information.

As a Senior Impact Analyst, you will analyze sustainability challenges, design and manage interventions, and work closely with smallholder communities, emphasizing rigorous research and collaboration.

Design, develop, test, and deploy RPA/AI agent solutions (UiPath/Blue Prism) integrated with enterprise systems. Analyze business processes, estimate feasibility, create maintainable automation workflows, document solutions, support UAT/rollout, and troubleshoot production automations. Collaborate with stakeholders, manage integrations (APIs/SQL/WebServices), and ensure quality using unit testing and source control.

The AVP, Digital Portfolio Management oversees P&L for small business products, driving underwriting profitability and digital transformation through analytics, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic initiatives.