Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Own the full sales cycle across North America, including prospecting, pipeline generation, client meetings, contract negotiation, and closing new business. Build markets across eCommerce, fintech, real-money gaming, and mobile apps while partnering with Customer Success, Marketing, and Product. Represent the company at industry events, monitor mobile advertising trends, and achieve personal and regional revenue targets exceeding $1 million annually.

Lead the roadmap and delivery of an AI-native L1 IT operations agent. Partner with customers, design partners, engineering, and go-to-market teams to ship enterprise-scale capabilities, improve self-service adoption, and build trust through transparent agent experiences and feedback loops. Drive product strategy from discovery through launch in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Build data foundations and end-to-end pipelines, research and implement quantitative pricing, market-making, and risk models for prediction markets, model cross-market dependencies and parlays, develop backtesting/simulation frameworks, monitor model performance and collaborate closely with traders to improve pricing and trading outcomes.

Develop client AI/ML solution architectures, assess technical feasibility, define requirements, estimate work, identify risks, and prepare proposal content. Design deployable inference solutions across FPGA, adaptive SoC, GPU, and AI accelerator targets while evaluating latency, throughput, power, memory, data pipelines, and production requirements. Present solutions, support business development, contribute to product and R&D initiatives, and undertake project work. Travel within North America for up to six weeks annually.

Shape company-wide machine learning strategy across credit, fraud, marketing, and growth. Build and improve consumer credit models, establish model governance and responsible modeling controls, and advance experimentation, causal inference, and business measurement. Provide technical leadership, mentor scientists, evaluate AI-assisted workflows, and partner with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Engineering, Product, and Finance to support reliable, compliant, and impactful financial decision systems.

Design, develop, evaluate, and refine machine learning models using Python. Manage training data with MongoDB, build preprocessing and data pipelines, tune hyperparameters, benchmark model performance, document experiments, and deliver data-driven insights. Collaborate remotely with cross-functional contributors and support deployment or operationalization of models in cloud or enterprise environments.

Lead the architecture and delivery of AI/ML initiatives supporting U.S. Air Force and Army predictive logistics and condition-based maintenance programs. Coordinate engineering teams, translate mission needs into technical solutions, guide tradeoff decisions, mentor technical leaders, and ensure AI/ML systems improve fleet maintenance, aircraft availability, and military readiness. The role requires Databricks expertise, technical leadership, stakeholder communication, and an active Secret clearance.

Lead the design, development, deployment, monitoring, and improvement of interconnected customer lifetime value models covering conversion, retention, premiums, and claim losses. Serve as a hands-on technical leader, guide modeling strategy, evaluate experiments and business impact, partner with engineering and business teams, support production ML systems, establish technical standards, and coach other data scientists.

Provides safe, therapeutic perioperative nursing care using the nursing process. Performs assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation; scrubs and circulates for complex spine and orthopedic surgeries; supports interdisciplinary teams; and assists with managing care delivered by other nursing staff. Requires California RN licensure, CPR certification, and substantial adult operating room experience, including spine procedures. Must work across UCSF Health locations and function effectively under pressure.

Build and deploy advanced machine learning and agentic AI systems that improve Airbnb’s customer service experience. Responsibilities include developing AI assistants, integrating ML products, optimizing model performance, applying LLM techniques such as fine-tuning and RAG, building multi-agent architectures, and shipping scalable production ML systems. The role collaborates closely with Engineering, Product, and Design teams and contributes to emerging AI initiatives from concept through production.

Develop and validate machine learning models, training pipelines, inference systems, and numerical methods using Python. Debug algorithmic and system-level issues, optimize memory usage and performance, design systematic tests, and build reproducible workflows. Review challenging ML engineering tasks, use coding agents in development, document technical findings, and deliver high-quality work independently within deadlines.

Develop and optimize generative AI architectures for material and molecular discovery, including diffusion models, flow matching, and GFlowNets. Integrate reward signals from learned predictors and simulations, manage data ingestion and quality control, develop computational workflows, and deploy production-grade ML capabilities. Collaborate with ML researchers, computational scientists, engineering, product, and R&D teams. The role requires expertise in applied ML, scalable frameworks, cloud platforms, and material discovery, with preferred experience in active learning, Bayesian optimization, guided generation, and agentic or LLM methods.

Develop and deploy machine-learned interatomic potentials for PFAS substitution. Responsibilities include generating and curating first-principles training data, building reproducible cloud and HPC workflows, training and validating ML force fields, running molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry campaigns, predicting physical properties, extending models to condensed-phase and process chemistries, and communicating model uncertainty and domain limitations.

Lead design, development, and production deployment of ML and algorithmic solutions. Own end-to-end ML systems, support distributed production reliability, communicate tradeoffs, and apply generative AI, LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic techniques to product problems.

Build and improve large-scale machine learning models for aviation prediction products, including runway landing times, gate arrivals, and taxi durations. Develop high-performance systems using historical aviation data and complex data types, contribute ideas in an agile environment, and improve operational efficiency for airlines and airports. Preferred experience includes Kubernetes, AWS, GPU acceleration, graph neural networks, geospatial data, observability, ETL orchestration, and large-scale data processing.

Develop, implement, and deploy scalable machine learning models for healthcare solutions. Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate models, analyze data to improve performance, ensure data quality, and stay current with ML advancements to support patient care and operational efficiency.

Analyzes and reconciles data across systems, builds and maintains data pipelines, develops predictive and machine-learning models, and creates automated AI workflows for security intelligence, anomaly detection, and reporting. The role also develops LLM prompts, evaluates model quality, supports cloud and containerized infrastructure, contributes to CI/CD automation, monitors controls, creates SOPs, and provides analytical guidance to clients and management.

Leads the AI product strategy and roadmap, extending governed Alteryx workflows and business logic into enterprise AI agents and LLM ecosystems. Owns the Faster, Better, Cheaper ROI narrative, benchmarks product performance, quantifies customer value, champions trustworthy AI through the VURA framework, and represents the product vision with customers, analysts, and external audiences.

Own the enterprise architecture vision for scalable, high-performance, cost-efficient multi-tenant SaaS systems. Lead AWS cloud optimization, distributed data and AI infrastructure, architectural governance, and Architecture Review Council activities. Guide engineering teams on microservices, event-driven systems, automation, and cloud-native practices while driving GenAI adoption across the software lifecycle. Build prototypes, establish architectural standards, optimize total cost of ownership, and mentor technical leaders.

Leads Dandelion Health’s AI developer business by building pipeline, closing clinical AI data and validation partnerships, recruiting developers into its marketplace, and achieving revenue targets. Develops commercial strategy, manages executive relationships, structures agreements, and collaborates with marketing, product, data, engineering, and clinical informatics teams. Represents the company at industry events and advises on clinical AI validation, regulatory, payer, and competitive dynamics.

Researches, develops, tests, and maintains materials-aware machine learning models and software. Designs scalable ML systems, improves model interpretability and uncertainty quantification, and develops inverse-design capabilities. Collaborates with product, engineering, and external research teams to deliver customer-focused AI solutions, publishes research, reviews code, analyzes model performance, and mentors developers.

Develop and deploy machine learning algorithms that improve real-time device identification and fraud detection. Own data science projects from experimentation through production, including supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning, real-time inference, training automation, exploratory analysis, and model-to-service integration. Contribute to engineering best practices, collaborate within a global remote team, and participate in a shared on-call rotation.

Owns territory sales for Sophos cybersecurity solutions across mid-market and enterprise accounts. Responsibilities include prospecting, opportunity qualification, customer acquisition, renewals, cross-selling, partner-channel development, executive relationship management, sales forecasting in Salesforce, and coordinating presales, marketing, channel, and inside-sales teams. The role requires meeting quotas, selling through a 100% channel model, maintaining product and competitive knowledge, and traveling to customer and partner sites.

Develop, optimize, and deploy production-grade computer vision and deep learning models for real-time perception and navigation on edge hardware. Integrate AI systems with robots, drones, unmanned systems, and swarms while optimizing inference with CUDA and TensorRT. Manage containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes, contribute to CI/CD and automated testing, and transition research prototypes into reliable production features.

Improve 1Password’s technical SEO across consumer, PLG, and enterprise websites. Responsibilities include diagnosing and resolving crawlability, indexing, rendering, performance, structured data, internal linking, and international SEO issues; implementing CMS changes; partnering with engineering on requirements and release QA; leading migration workstreams; and building monitoring, dashboards, automation, and repeatable processes using search, analytics, crawl, log, and CMS data.