Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Applied Data Scientist focused on incrementality, causal inference, experimentation, Marketing Mix Modeling, and predictive products. The role partners directly with customers to interpret data, diagnose measurement issues, explain statistical results, and provide actionable recommendations. Responsibilities include building diagnostic tools, analyzing model and experiment outcomes, improving methodologies and production capabilities, and collaborating with Product, Engineering, Media Strategy, Customer Success, and senior data scientists.

Designs and implements enterprise cloud and AI solutions for unstructured data workloads. Responsibilities include building ingestion pipelines, API integrations, document extraction and HITL workflows, tuning machine learning models, benchmarking performance, and ensuring security, availability, disaster recovery, and data isolation. The role also supports customer developers, leads technical proofs of concept, mentors engineering teams, develops reusable blueprints, and provides feedback to product engineering.

Designs, deploys, and operates production machine learning systems for identity resolution, scoring, deliverability, and personalization. Responsibilities include feature engineering, model training, real-time inference, graph database integration, monitoring, drift detection, retraining, low-latency APIs, and scalable data processing. The role also contributes to MLOps standards, GPU acceleration, and ML architecture while partnering with platform engineering.

Owns end-to-end delivery of enterprise fine-tuning engagements, including client discovery, use-case prioritization, ROI, scope, timelines, model hosting, SLAs, security reviews, and stakeholder management. Partners with sales, product, engineering, and machine learning teams; navigates enterprise procurement and IT processes; translates between technical buyers and internal teams; and develops repeatable processes and playbooks to scale the practice.

Own and improve Headway’s privacy program across HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, state privacy laws, individual rights, incidents, vendor governance, and AI use. Maintain controls, data maps, metrics, training, and operational workflows. Conduct product, vendor, and AI privacy assessments; manage rights requests and incident investigations; coordinate notifications and regulatory submissions; and translate complex requirements into practical guidance for cross-functional teams.

Lead Risk Operations transformation programs from problem definition through implementation and measurement. Own automation initiatives, process redesign, tooling improvements, partner transitions, operational metrics, readiness, and continuous improvement. Collaborate with Risk Operations, Fraud Strategy, Compliance, Product, Engineering, Data, Shared Services, and Vendor Management to deliver measurable gains in service levels, quality, risk outcomes, backlog, and cost.

Own the strategy and roadmap for patient-provider search, retrieval, ranking, and marketplace matching. Lead experimentation, objective functions, evaluation, and ML platform foundations while partnering with ML engineers, data scientists, design, clinical teams, and executives. Improve successful, lasting care matches rather than optimizing only clicks or bookings. Balance patient access, provider growth, clinical quality, and payer priorities, while setting the standard for technically grounded product management.

Analyze product, user, transactional, and repayment data to develop risk and underwriting models, reduce losses and fraud, monitor model performance, and guide product and growth strategy. Build Looker dashboards and LookML models, conduct segmentation and experimentation, measure CAC and LTV, and communicate actionable insights to product, engineering, marketing, finance, and leadership.

Architect and implement enterprise-grade MLOps/LLMOps platforms on AWS and Kubernetes. Design ML/LLM pipelines for training, validation, deployment, monitoring, governance, CI/CD, and observability. Serve as technical authority, conduct architecture reviews, ensure security and compliance, and mentor engineering teams across projects.

Own the production lifecycle of ranking and recommendation models, including training, validation, deployment, monitoring, retraining, versioning, rollback, and retirement. Build scalable Spark-based feature and data pipelines, orchestration workflows, model hubs, observability, CI/CD, and reliability standards. Partner with data science and engineering teams to improve model quality, deployment speed, infrastructure efficiency, and operational resilience while mentoring teammates.

Build and scale accounting software synchronization solutions connecting BILL’s payment network with third-party accounting platforms. Lead end-to-end software design and delivery, develop scalable AWS microservices, improve platform performance, guide testing and CI/CD practices, resolve customer problems, mentor engineers, and use generative AI to accelerate development.

Build and maintain end-to-end machine learning pipelines for electoral polling and forecasting. Develop identity resolution, record linkage, survey, voter-file, and forecasting models; perform feature engineering, model evaluation, diagnostics, and data quality checks. Translate statistical outputs into strategic guidance for political organizations, collaborate with engineers and analysts, and develop political subject-matter expertise to identify anomalies and improve model reliability.

Lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of production-grade generative AI and LLM solutions. Build data and ML pipelines, fine-tune and evaluate models, implement RAG and prompt engineering, and establish MLOps practices on AWS. Drive use cases across insurance workflows, ensure security and responsible AI compliance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, engineering, security, finance, and go-to-market teams.

Drives underwriting innovation by designing, testing, and implementing new tools, technologies, strategies, and processes. Coordinates projects, manages deadlines and risks, supports user acceptance testing, and collaborates with IT, underwriting, data, product, operations, reinsurance, and vendors. Uses data analytics and machine learning to improve risk assessment, efficiency, and customer experience while ensuring regulatory compliance. Provides training and helps translate innovation concepts into adopted underwriting capabilities.

Lead development and productionization of telematics pricing and underwriting models. Responsibilities span statistical modeling, feature engineering, dataset and pipeline development, model deployment, monitoring, data quality validation, troubleshooting, regulatory support, and collaboration with pricing, actuarial, product, engineering, and compliance teams.

Analyzes structured and unstructured datasets supporting U.S. Navy electronic warfare systems. Develops statistical, machine learning, NLP, data modeling, visualization, and reporting solutions to improve system readiness, reliability, maintainability, operational availability, and lifecycle performance. Integrates logistics, engineering, maintenance, and operational data; identifies trends and risks; and presents data-driven findings to technical and program stakeholders.

Develops analytical models and applications for U.S. Navy electronic warfare and sustainment systems. Applies data mining, statistical analysis, NLP, machine learning, and data modeling to structured and unstructured data. Integrates logistics, engineering, maintenance, reliability, and operational data to assess readiness, performance, risks, and availability. Creates visualizations, dashboards, reports, and briefings, while collaborating with engineers, logisticians, operations researchers, and program personnel to support lifecycle management and data-driven decisions.

The Sales Development Representative generates qualified pipeline through personalized phone, email, and LinkedIn outreach. Responsibilities include engaging decision-makers, qualifying inbound and outbound prospects, setting meetings, coordinating with account executives, maintaining Salesforce records, meeting pipeline targets, and improving messaging using performance data. The role also collaborates with Sales, Marketing, and Business Operations while developing expertise in identity verification, biometrics, fraud prevention, and digital banking markets.

Develop autonomy evaluation metrics, statistical and machine-learning analyses, dashboards, and pipelines for simulation and on-road autonomous vehicle testing. Analyze perception, prediction, and planning performance; identify anomalous behavior and critical scenarios; apply VLMs and LLMs where appropriate; and support release gating and safety decisions. The role requires production Python, C++ debugging, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and rigorous software engineering practices.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Leads executive discovery, consulting opportunity strategy, solution architecture, proposals, SOWs, commercialization, and delivery mobilization for enterprise data, analytics, AI, and GenAI engagements. Advises clients on modern data platforms, cloud modernization, governance, security, ML, and responsible AI. Requires strong presales, delivery leadership, workshop facilitation, architecture, estimation, and commercial skills across Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Develops data science models, analytical processes, visualizations, dashboards, and reports for U.S. Navy electronic warfare systems. Integrates logistics, engineering, maintenance, reliability, and operational data to evaluate system readiness, reliability, maintainability, performance, risks, and lifecycle sustainment. Applies data mining, statistical analysis, NLP, and machine learning to support operational decisions and collaborates with engineers, logisticians, analysts, and program personnel.

Own customer experience product strategy and roadmaps across web and mobile commerce. Lead experimentation, data analysis, usability testing, customer research, and post-purchase experience improvements. Partner with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Merchandising, AI, and Analytics teams to deliver features that improve engagement, conversion, trust, and customer lifetime value. Communicate product vision and priorities to executives while balancing short-term delivery with long-term strategy.

Design and deliver enterprise-grade generative AI solutions on AWS using Bedrock, AgentCore, SageMaker, LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and agentic workflows. Build scalable APIs and integrations, optimize prompts and models, evaluate performance, and implement security and governance. Collaborate with application, data, and platform teams, troubleshoot production systems, define best practices, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on.

Build and deploy machine learning models on large healthcare datasets, extract actionable insights, develop scalable data processing systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and communicate findings to stakeholders to improve patient outcomes.