Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Write technically accurate case studies, articles, product explainers, launch materials, and social content for AI engineers, researchers, and technical leaders. Interview customers, partners, and internal experts; learn HUD’s platform and workflows; explain technical products and research clearly; support founder communications; manage content from ideation through publication; and improve content using reader and go-to-market feedback.

Product Counsel will advise product, engineering, data science, marketing, compliance, and sales teams throughout the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include counseling on regulatory compliance, privacy, intellectual property, consumer protection, AI and machine learning, data rights, platform architecture, APIs, identity and account security, and marketing. The role translates legal requirements into technical guidance, supports AI governance, monitors evolving laws, and develops scalable legal processes for a fast-paced technology company.

Leads DISCO’s machine learning research strategy, directs advanced algorithm and methodology development, oversees large-scale research programs, and manages research teams. Collaborates with industry partners and cross-functional stakeholders to apply machine learning to real-world challenges. Develops long-term research plans, mentors researchers, optimizes research processes, and contributes to the broader research community through publications, presentations, and industry engagement.

Develops predictive models, machine learning solutions, data pipelines, statistical analyses, and internal data applications. The role uses Python and SQL Server to analyze structured and unstructured data, applying NLP, classification, regression, clustering, automation, and AI/LLM techniques. Responsibilities include maintaining data science platforms, supporting cross-functional decision-making, and communicating technical findings to non-technical audiences.

Leads financial strategy, planning, forecasting, and operating cadence across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and GTM Operations. Owns GTM economics, sales compensation, commissions forecasting, executive reporting, driver-based modeling, resource allocation, and profitability analysis. Modernizes Finance through AI, automation, advanced analytics, improved controls, and scalable processes while developing the GTM Finance team and advising senior executives.

Leads automated scoring and natural language application research for educational assessment products. Responsibilities include setting team priorities, mentoring scientists, designing and analyzing studies, developing machine learning applications, collaborating with stakeholders, presenting technical findings, writing reports, publishing applied research, and supporting products involving automated scoring, crisis-content detection, and formative feedback.

Evaluate, deploy, and optimize machine learning models for on-device execution on Android phones. Benchmark models on mobile hardware, optimize latency, memory, and power consumption, and apply quantization, compression, and distillation. Integrate models with Android applications, system services, and AI agent runtimes. Build hybrid local/cloud model routing and determine which workflows should run locally versus through cloud inference.

Develop, train, evaluate, optimize, and deploy machine learning models and AI applications using Python and PyTorch. Prepare datasets, build REST APIs for model serving, troubleshoot data and API issues, and maintain model versions and documentation. Collaborate with engineering, data science, and product teams while following software development practices such as Git, code reviews, automated testing, and deployment workflows.

Defines and leads architecture standards for production machine learning, generative AI, LLM, and agentic systems. Establishes lifecycle management, observability, evaluation, safety, security, operational readiness, support ownership, and governance practices. Partners with engineering, product, data, security, infrastructure, and IT support teams to deliver reliable AI capabilities. Provides hands-on technical leadership, architecture reviews, documentation, mentoring, prototyping, incident support, and guidance on RAG, vector search, model gateways, prompt orchestration, and agent workflows.

As a Research Engineer, you'll develop and manage data systems for text-to-speech projects and enhance machine learning models using innovative strategies.

Builds and deploys AI-enabled applications, machine learning models, data pipelines, APIs, and decision-support tools for aggregate and asphalt operations. The role optimizes plant automation, production efficiency, uptime, quality, pricing, sales processes, and costs using operational, equipment, quality, GIS, and sales data. It integrates AI with plant systems and legacy software, collaborates across operations and IT, and ensures responsible AI, cybersecurity compliance, documentation, and user adoption.

Supports AI-focused customers by assisting with AI/ML solution design, documentation, distributed training and inference on multi-GPU cloud systems, technical materials, troubleshooting, and optimization. The role provides mentorship and exposure to ML frameworks, GPU infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, DevOps, and orchestration. It is designed for current students, recent graduates, and early-career specialists interested in AI infrastructure and applied machine learning.

Early-career Data Scientist supporting supply chain transformation through machine learning, forecasting, statistical modeling, data preparation, dashboards, and AI solutions. The role addresses inventory optimization, demand forecasting, production planning, delivery performance, and cost reduction. Responsibilities include developing analytical datasets and workflows with Python and SQL, evaluating models, integrating enterprise data, supporting cloud-based analytics, and communicating insights to business stakeholders in a manufacturing environment.

Own the technical sales cycle for Databricks consulting engagements, including discovery, architecture design, solution scoping, estimation, proposals, demos, proofs of concept, workshops, and statements of work. Design lakehouse, data engineering, analytics, governance, security, and AI architectures. Partner with sales, Databricks, alliance, and delivery teams while ensuring effective handoffs into implementation.

The Senior Display Media Account Manager develops and executes digital media strategies, focusing primarily on Amazon DSP, while fostering client relationships, providing analytics, and driving business growth for clients.

Lead GitLab’s company-wide strategy for autonomous, agentic software development workflows. Identify and validate AI opportunities across the SDLC, build prototypes and reference architectures, establish evaluation frameworks and safety controls, and drive internal adoption. Partner across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, and Data and ML teams to scale reliable, observable, compliant agentic capabilities into customer-facing products. Mentor senior technical leaders and represent GitLab externally on AI-assisted development and productivity measurement.

Leads high-visibility product programs focused on market adoption, analyst relations, customer advisory boards, executive briefings, and industry events. Translates technical product roadmaps into compelling market value propositions, synthesizes analyst and customer feedback, and provides actionable insights to product leadership. Partners cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, and executive stakeholders while supporting strategic initiatives and external-facing communications.

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.

Build and deploy mechanistic, hybrid, and data-driven models for pharmaceutical CMC processes, including drug substance, drug product, packaging, labeling, technology transfer, and manufacturing. Integrate process and experimental data into FAIR data products, analytics, dashboards, and AI-enabled tools. Partner with technical teams and CDMOs to support process understanding, forecasting, risk assessment, regulatory filings, and technology-transfer decisions while owning the digital roadmap and mentoring colleagues.

Senior Product Manager responsible for FinCrime product strategy and delivery across fraud prevention, scams, payment risk, vendor integrations, and cryptocurrency-related products. Owns the full product lifecycle, global feature rollouts, stakeholder management, metrics, regulatory alignment, and customer experience. The role requires hands-on experience with fraud analytics, risk and financial modeling, machine learning, AI tools, APIs, payment systems, and financial-services compliance.

Build and manage technical relationships with LATAM enterprise customers, helping them adopt JetBrains products, overcome technical barriers, and achieve business outcomes. Serve as a trusted technical advisor, customer advocate, and liaison with Support and Product Engineering. Partner with Account Executives and Sales on account strategies and expansions, recommend product enhancements, present product ideas, and maintain expertise in software development technologies.

Leads the architecture, research, development, deployment, and lifecycle management of enterprise AI and machine learning solutions, including generative AI, LLMs, and agentic systems. Partners with data scientists, engineers, IT, business stakeholders, and life sciences experts to deliver reusable, compliant, production-grade solutions across pharmaceutical R&D and corporate functions. Guides AI product strategy, responsible AI, data governance, MLOps, stakeholder adoption, and technical enablement.

Designs, builds, and evaluates agentic AI systems for healthcare workflows such as documentation, coding, denial management, and revenue cycle automation. Develops long-horizon agent behavior, evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, feedback loops, monitoring, and production safeguards. Partners with research, ML engineering, clinical, product, and engineering teams to prototype and deploy reliable, explainable, auditable AI systems using LLMs, machine learning, and agentic technologies.

Deploys, integrates, and scales enterprise Generative AI solutions across Azure environments. The role develops LangGraph agentic workflows, fine-tunes and evaluates LLMs, reduces hallucinations, integrates retrieval systems and APIs, and collaborates with customer engineering teams. Responsibilities also include requirements documentation, process mapping, automation engineering, software architecture, and communicating business value.

Own and improve Quora’s second-phase ranking models for feed and digest experiences. Build end-to-end machine learning systems covering data pipelines, candidate extraction, feature engineering, model training, and production integration. Identify new product applications for machine learning, develop efficient algorithms with other ML engineers, and contribute methodologies for large-scale recommendation systems.