Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Leads Mercury’s cross-line AI/ML research capability across insurance products. Responsibilities include setting strategy, building a research tooling team, modernizing workflows, developing model monitoring and AI infrastructure, establishing responsible AI guardrails, partnering across technology and data science teams, driving adoption, and coaching talent. The role requires strong quantitative, insurance analytics, Python, machine learning, generative AI, and LLM evaluation expertise, along with substantial people and cross-functional leadership experience.

Design and implement machine learning and optimization algorithms for Netflix’s ad marketplace. Build, train, and evaluate models using large-scale production data; develop online and offline evaluation frameworks; and partner with product teams to define objectives and trade-offs. Communicate technical decisions and experiment results to diverse stakeholders while providing technical guidance and aligning ML solutions with business goals.

Drive go-to-market execution across Nabla’s product portfolio, including positioning, messaging, sales enablement, competitive intelligence, demand-generation partnerships, customer adoption content, and event support. Progress into owning go-to-market strategy for specific products from early definition through launch and adoption, partnering with Product and Engineering and tracking launch success metrics.

Own credit portfolio performance analysis, credit policy, underwriting strategy, risk frameworks, and portfolio growth initiatives across lending products. Partner with Data Science, Product, Engineering, Operations, leadership, and external lending partners to develop predictive models, automated decisioning, analytical tools, dashboards, and reporting. Present strategic recommendations on portfolio risk, borrower behavior, credit expansion, and company-wide risk strategy.

The Sr. Machine Learning Engineer will develop and deploy ML solutions for healthcare, manage data pipelines, and work with large datasets to enhance healthcare delivery.

As a Staff Applied ML Scientist, you will develop and maintain fraud detection models, conduct research on fraud types, and collaborate across teams to drive product development and real-time decision-making.

As a Senior Applied ML Scientist, you'll develop fraud detection models, research new fraud types, and write production code while collaborating across teams to enhance SentiLink's identity verification solutions.

Lead architecture and technical strategy for AI-driven product quality systems using LLMs and agents. Build scalable evaluation frameworks, detect regressions, generate insights, and drive cross-functional adoption while mentoring engineers and defining standards for trustworthy AI.

Build large-scale machine learning systems for advertising, including ranking, recommendation, targeting, prediction, optimization, and creative generation. Develop feedback loops connecting generative AI outputs to advertising performance signals, apply prompt engineering and post-training methods, run experiments, and ship reliable production ML systems. Collaborate across Product, Research, Engineering, and go-to-market teams to deliver AI-native advertising products.

Lead end-to-end healthcare analytics projects, managing scope, planning, execution, client relationships, cross-functional collaboration, risks, and delivery. Provide thought leadership in healthcare analytics and identify business opportunities within client accounts. Required capabilities include quantitative analysis, project management, communication, presentation, SQL/Python/R proficiency, and strategic use of AI tools. Preferred experience includes consulting, cloud analytics platforms, healthcare data regulations, predictive modeling, machine learning, and data visualization.

Leads architecture and development of production-grade mapping and localization ML systems for autonomous vehicles. Designs neural models for detection, segmentation, tracking, depth estimation, 3D reconstruction, and semantic mapping; owns data strategy, evaluation, deployment, and fleet validation. Mentors engineers, drives technical roadmaps, collaborates cross-functionally, and advances vectorized HD mapping, foundation models, and real-time optimization.

Own end-to-end design for complex financial product experiences from exploration through launch and iteration. Translate financial workflows into intuitive customer experiences, set high standards for interaction and visual design, partner with product and engineering, use research and data to guide decisions, contribute to design systems, present work clearly, and mentor teammates. Apply AI-enabled tools thoughtfully while maintaining strong human-centered judgment.

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%.

Lead initiatives in designing and building large-scale distributed data systems and ML infrastructure, while collaborating across various engineering teams.

Leads an engineering team building and scaling customer-facing integrations for agentic AI products. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, balancing customer delivery with reusable tooling and platform investments, ensuring reliability and observability, improving developer experience, collaborating cross-functionally, recruiting, and coaching engineers. The role requires customer empathy, strong engineering leadership, technical problem-solving, and experience with production systems or integrations.

Assess AI-enabled products and software against regulatory requirements and standards, supporting conformity assessments, CE marking, certification, and client guidance. Review technical documentation, mentor colleagues, develop assessment procedures and tools, contribute to AI testing methodologies, and support accreditation, quality, and continuous improvement activities. The role requires practical AI/ML experience, regulatory knowledge, strong analytical skills, and collaboration across global multidisciplinary teams.

Develop and optimize large-scale advertising ranking models for CTR and CVR prediction, calibration, user representations, and sequence modeling. Own machine learning systems end to end, including data pipelines, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, and maintenance. Collaborate with platform, product, data science, and engineering teams to run experiments and improve advertiser outcomes, revenue, and user relevance. Apply deep learning and recommendation techniques within production latency, reliability, and cost constraints.

Lead research and experimentation to measure ad campaign performance and effectiveness. Design evaluation frameworks, build measurement solutions, develop models for lift, conversion, and attribution, run experiments and analyses, partner with product/engineering/design/sales, present insights, mentor teammates, and foster technical community and culture.

Build and operate scalable, highly available ML/LLM serving and compute infrastructure. Own long-term platform vision, deliver zero-to-one projects, partner cross-functionally, optimize performance and capacity, and support production ML models at scale.

Design, productionize, and deploy machine learning forecasting models for ad inventory and campaign performance in low-latency, real-time advertising environments. Build scalable simulation, budgeting, and pacing systems; collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy models at scale and optimize ad monetization.

Lead design, execution, and optimization of scaled lifecycle campaigns across email and in-product channels. Use marketing automation, behavioral data, and ML techniques to personalize journeys, drive activation, revenue, retention, and cross-sell. Analyze performance, generate insights, and collaborate with Growth, Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Sales, and Marketing stakeholders.

Lead a team to analyze, optimize, and grow merchant revenue using analytics and AI. Define strategy, set KPIs, deploy ML solutions, drive go-to-market alignment, execute tests, and deliver actionable insights to executives and cross-functional partners.

Lead design, execution, and interpretation of A/B tests and quasi-experiments; apply causal inference methods; partner with product, engineering, and marketing; mentor data scientists; build experimentation frameworks; extract and analyze data using SQL and Python; communicate results to stakeholders.

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.

Lead the hands-on development of Vida’s secure data and AI/ML platform, including ingestion, data modeling, MLOps, model serving, feature pipelines, LLM integrations, DevOps, observability, and infrastructure. Partner with security and IT to protect sensitive health data and meet HIPAA/HITRUST-aligned controls while establishing scalable engineering patterns across the organization.