Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Implement customer projects using Python, machine learning, and deep-learning tools for engineering, physics, CAD, CAE, and manufacturing workflows. Develop proofs of concept, analyze project data, train customer teams, and translate customer feedback into product improvements. The role requires strong engineering and machine-learning knowledge, simulation experience, customer-facing communication, and travel to US customer locations.

Leads enterprise AI architecture strategy, standards, governance, and roadmaps across products, platforms, data, and business processes. Guides solutions involving generative AI, agentic AI, RAG, machine learning, automation, cloud platforms, and AI infrastructure. Partners with executives and technical teams on architecture reviews, security, compliance, scalability, and cost optimization; mentors senior engineers and provides hands-on leadership through prototypes and critical problem resolution.

Senior Commercial Counsel will draft, review, and negotiate complex subscription, partnership, vendor, and other commercial agreements. The role primarily supports a global Sales organization, advises cross-functional teams, manages contracts managers, and handles enterprise and strategic partnership transactions. Responsibilities include balancing competing priorities, supporting legal projects, and providing practical, business-minded legal guidance in a fast-paced environment.

Own end-to-end customer deployments for an AI platform used in mining. Learn site operations, create deployment plans, manage stakeholder cadences, track risks and value, and support adoption. Build reports, dashboards, and lightweight tools using SQL, Python, or AI coding tools. Translate field observations into product requirements, support sales and account expansion, and help establish scalable deployment processes and playbooks.

Own audience or measurement products for Fetch’s monetization business, translating advertiser goals and purchase behavior into predictive models, datasets, and causal studies. Build and validate audience expansion, measure advertising outcomes, assess bias and uncertainty, and improve products using campaign results. Partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, and GTM, present findings to customers, and develop reproducible analyses and production-ready assets.

Designs, trains, evaluates, and operationalizes intelligent document-processing solutions using OCR, machine learning, LLMs, Python, and cloud data pipelines. Builds extraction, validation, reconciliation, exception-handling, and human-review workflows for sensitive information. Develops secure, auditable, configuration-driven systems with API integrations, monitoring, testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code. Partners with business experts to define document fields, quality thresholds, validation rules, and acceptance criteria.

Lead product vision and roadmap for data and analytics products (ML, generative AI, data pipelines, BI). Translate business needs into developer-ready features, maintain backlog, collaborate with engineering and stakeholders, track KPIs, and drive adoption and continuous improvement.

Designs and delivers integrated cloud, AI, and GPU infrastructure solutions for strategic technology partners. Responsibilities include architecting integrations, building production-grade reference implementations, defining networking and security patterns, enabling partner engineering teams, supporting customer deployments, troubleshooting complex environments, and translating partner feedback into product roadmap requirements. The role requires deep Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, AI inference, integration architecture, and cloud infrastructure expertise.

Own Pinterest’s strategy and roadmap for combating deceptive commerce content, including scams, fake storefronts, AI-generated abuse, and misleading merchant content. Define metrics, detection and enforcement approaches, and partner with Policy, Engineering, Data Science, Operations, Monetization, and Adversarial/Spam teams. Lead ML-powered detection products, manage enforcement tradeoffs, analyze adversarial dynamics, and drive cross-functional alignment to protect users while limiting false positives.

Own Pinterest’s company-wide strategy for detecting and enforcing against bots, account takeovers, spam, and other adversarial behavior. Define multi-year roadmaps, develop ML-powered detection and enforcement systems, establish measurement strategies, and coordinate investment across Policy, Operations, Engineering, Data Science, Security, and Identity teams. Lead executive alignment while balancing enforcement effectiveness with false-positive user impact.

Leads the launch of BGO’s enterprise sales motion for its AI-first data operations proposition. Responsibilities include developing prospecting strategy and sales playbooks, generating new-logo pipeline, selling complex $1M+ enterprise solutions, building executive relationships, closing transformational deals, supporting AI/ML product integration, and representing the company at industry events. The role partners with marketing, communications, client solutions, and leadership on RFPs, product roadmap development, and strategic market initiatives.

Lead implementations of iQueue for Operating Rooms from discovery through configuration, validation, and rollout. Partner with hospital, clinical, operational, IT, and executive stakeholders to optimize OR workflows, scheduling, staffing, utilization, and access. Responsibilities include data analysis, solution design, product configuration, user acceptance testing, change management, risk monitoring, stakeholder alignment, and go-live readiness. Travel to customer sites is required up to 40–50%.

Own technical wins for strategic enterprise sales, partnering with Account Executives to discover customer needs and develop production-ready solutions. Build proofs of concept, demonstrations, prototype AI agents, and supporting tools while engaging AI teams, data platform teams, and enterprise architects. Apply hands-on experience with LLMs, agents, data science, machine learning, or data engineering to explain how agents retrieve data and use business context.

Design and implement scalable data pipelines and ML algorithms to optimize StackAdapt's digital advertising platform. Collaborate with teams to solve complex problems.

Lead technical client onboarding, migrations, solution design, integrations, data orchestration, troubleshooting, and project delivery for Movable Ink’s AI-powered personalization platform. Partner with clients and internal teams to implement custom workflows, APIs, webhooks, and data solutions. Conduct training and workshops, provide product expertise, advise on roadmap improvements, and support long-term client success across email and mobile marketing programs.

Serve as primary client contact for a portfolio of loyalty-program clients. Scope and manage end-to-end actuarial analyses rooted in predictive modeling and machine learning, validate model outputs, translate results into clear recommendations and presentations, and partner with analysts and data scientists to deliver high-quality, client-facing work in a fully remote consulting environment.

Leads cyber risk assurance strategy and multidisciplinary teams responsible for control monitoring, testing, evidence management, issue remediation, audit support, regulatory readiness, and assurance automation. The role advances continuous, AI-enabled assurance by translating regulatory and cybersecurity requirements into measurable outcomes, maintaining assurance frameworks, evaluating control effectiveness, managing concurrent activities, and reporting metrics to support executive risk decisions.

Lead technical discovery and presales engagements for Zendesk’s AI-powered CX and employee service platform. Design scalable solutions, demos, pilots, and proofs of value; integrate APIs, middleware, telephony, and cloud platforms; and translate AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes. Collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to drive technical strategy, customer adoption, ROI measurement, and product innovation.

Analyze telematics, IoT, sensor, and firmware data to evaluate hardware performance, reliability, and field issues. Build dashboards and reports, identify trends and anomalies, apply statistical and machine learning techniques, validate firmware improvements, and provide actionable insights to engineering, product, data science, and customer support teams. Help develop scalable data pipelines and promote data-driven hardware and software development.

Own delivery of enterprise AI automation projects from planning through rollout. Manage scope, timelines, milestones, budgets, risks, dependencies, client communication, status reporting, and change orders. Coordinate cross-functional teams and stakeholders, lead project meetings, track action items through completion, support user adoption and production handoff, and identify process improvements using AI tools.

Own and negotiate complex commercial transactions, including customer agreements, research collaborations, partnerships, data licenses, SaaS contracts, vendor agreements, and professional services agreements. Partner with sales, science, finance, and R&D teams, particularly on life sciences and computational chemistry deals. Build scalable legal infrastructure through playbooks, templates, fallback positions, self-service processes, and AI-enabled contract workflows.

Leads Lexia’s business analytics and data strategy function, managing analysts and overseeing data engineering alignment. Owns BI strategy, Tableau governance, data governance, self-service dashboards, AI-enabled analytics, metric definitions, and data quality. Partners with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, executives, and analytics engineering to translate business needs into insights, KPIs, models, and actionable recommendations. Manages analytics tools and vendors while ensuring responsible, secure, and effective use of enterprise data.

Leads technical enablement and sales success for strategic national channel partners. Aligns partner and company go-to-market strategies, develops business plans, conducts technical and sales training, supports evaluations and configurations, and serves as a trusted technical advisor throughout the sales cycle. Builds executive relationships, coordinates training and marketing activities, gathers partner requirements, mentors technical managers, and collaborates with sales, systems engineering, and channel teams.

Lead the evolution of trading infrastructure by managing trade operations, P&L attribution, risk monitoring, data integrity, and performance reporting. Develop Python- and machine-learning-based AI agents, MLOps workflows, anomaly detection, predictive risk models, automated reconciliations, and real-time dashboards to transform manual trading operations and improve risk analysis.

Leads clinical intelligence initiatives by sizing AI opportunities, conducting data discovery, evaluating AI/ML solution performance, and measuring impact, accuracy, drift, and patient outcomes. Partners with product, clinical, engineering, compliance, and operations teams to develop measurement plans, value hypotheses, benchmarks, and scalable intelligence capabilities. The role is remote with occasional travel and requires advanced SQL, Python, clinical analytics, and population health research expertise.