Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Develop and deploy machine learning models for fraud detection and credit risk decisioning. Own the full ML lifecycle, including data exploration, feature engineering, experimentation, validation, deployment, monitoring, and optimization. Analyze fraud trends and portfolio outcomes, collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Risk Operations, apply generative AI tools, and mentor fellow scientists while delivering measurable improvements in fraud prevention and responsible credit access.

Own the complete machine learning model lifecycle, from experimentation and validation through deployment, monitoring, retraining, rollback, and retirement. Build reusable training, evaluation, deployment, orchestration, and CI/CD infrastructure. Establish model promotion standards, versioning, lineage, monitoring, alerting, and incident-response processes. Partner with data scientists to preserve scientific validity, improve reliability and efficiency, support delayed-label use cases, mentor teammates, and define MLOps priorities.

Own the end-to-end computer vision platform for fine-grained item identification and pricing. Responsibilities include designing and fine-tuning vision models, defining evaluation and confidence standards, building labeling feedback loops, prioritizing coverage versus accuracy, and deploying reliable, low-latency serving infrastructure at scale. The role also communicates model capabilities and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Build and operate distributed GPU training platforms for foundation models. Run and debug multi-node PyTorch and Ray Train workloads, tune GPU networking and scheduling, profile performance, and develop benchmarks and evaluation harnesses. Partner with infrastructure teams and client scientists to improve throughput, reliability, cost efficiency, observability, and end-to-end training pipelines on GKE.

Design, train, and deploy ML models for Qur'ān recitation, tajwīd detection, and ASR. Build data pipelines for cleaning, segmentation, labeling, and evaluation. Integrate real-time predictions via APIs or lightweight on-device inference, optimize models for speed and mobile performance, and collaborate with backend developers to ship AI features in the app.

Develop, test, and integrate AI software for aerospace and industrial applications. Interns will use Python, JavaScript, and C++ to build AI solutions, evaluate data and algorithms, collaborate with machine learning and data engineers, monitor AI trends and regulations, and present progress to leadership and stakeholders.

Design and lead the technical strategy for search across Vannevar’s products. Build and improve full-text, vector, and LLM-powered retrieval systems, optimizing latency, relevance, index quality, freshness, and performance. Collaborate with ML, product, design, and mission strategy teams to translate user needs into search innovations. Apply expertise in information retrieval, NLP, machine learning, indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, vector search, and evaluation frameworks.

Lead research on improving AI agent training data and evaluations. Manage and mentor research engineers, define research direction, design rigorous experiments, validate data quality, diagnose reward and grading failures, and translate findings into scalable tools, workflows, and standards. Collaborate with engineers, domain experts, and vendors while communicating technical conclusions and tradeoffs clearly.

Build and maintain mission-critical wealth management systems for SMB clients. Design data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data models, warehouses, analytics, and reporting solutions using AWS, Snowflake, Mage AI, and other big data tools. Collaborate with data scientists and analysts on predictive models, statistical analyses, and machine learning algorithms. Develop software with Next.js and Python while working closely with the team and clients on financial-domain challenges.

Owns P&L performance, profitability, growth, and digital transformation for Small and Lower Mid-Market commercial insurance portfolios. Leads pricing, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, analytics, data visualization, predictive modeling, and machine learning initiatives. Partners with actuarial, product, engineering, technology, and distribution teams to implement process improvements and underwriting actions across digital channels and geographies. Communicates insights to stakeholders and senior leadership while leading cross-functional teams in an Agile operating model.

Serve as the persistent technical partner for strategic and premium customers, diagnosing workflows, labeling, configurations, model behavior, and technical health. Build success plans with Customer Success Managers, guide implementations and model releases, conduct technical health reviews, coordinate fraud incident responses, and communicate technical findings to business and engineering stakeholders. Identify recurring customer patterns and provide feedback to Product and Engineering while supporting account retention and growth.

Own technical relationships with insurance carrier accounts by leading discovery, solution design, integrations, deployment support, defect management, QA, documentation, API and payload validation, SQL-based account monitoring, and incident management. The role partners with client engagement and engineering teams to ensure deployments meet carrier requirements and progressively assumes greater ownership of technical account relationships.

Provide technical pre-sales expertise for Jumio’s identity verification, KYC, AML, authentication, and risk management solutions. Responsibilities include consulting with prospects, leading technical presentations, responding to RFPs and RFIs, managing proofs of concept, onboarding customers through go-live, delivering customized web and mobile demos, and supporting sales, account management, product, engineering, and marketing teams.

Leads the strategy, architecture, and delivery of Extreme Networks’ wireless hardware and software portfolio, including access points, controllers, and cloud-managed platforms. Oversees distributed hardware, firmware, software, and RF engineering teams; manages roadmaps, budgets, vendors, compliance, and executive communications. Drives scalable product delivery, engineering quality, cloud networking, AI adoption, and innovation in Wi-Fi, private wireless, and cellular convergence.

Leads strategy, roadmap, execution, commercialization, and customer outcomes for a major enterprise software product area. Conducts market and customer discovery, prioritizes opportunities, partners with engineering and design, establishes outcome-based metrics, and supports sales enablement. Builds and coaches the product management team, manages executive and customer relationships, and helps transition the company from services-led to product-led operations. The role emphasizes legal technology, eDiscovery, AI-enabled workflows, enterprise data, and regulated-industry requirements.

Develop machine learning, AI, statistical, and predictive models using Snowflake and other data sources. Perform data extraction, cleansing, feature engineering, experimentation, visualization, and quality analysis. Partner with business and technical teams to deliver data products, conversational analytics, and actionable recommendations. Lead discovery sessions, communicate insights to nontechnical audiences, mentor analysts, and support enterprise data science projects.

Own technical delivery and account health for insurer software deployments. Responsibilities include discovery, solution design, integrations, API and payload review, QA testing, defect documentation, workflow mapping, SQL-based production monitoring, incident management, and technical communication with carrier accounts and engineering teams.

Owns customer retention and expansion across a portfolio of accounts. The Renewals Manager engages customers before renewal, drives value-based conversations, analyzes usage and health data, identifies churn and expansion opportunities, and coordinates renewal execution across Sales, Finance, and Legal. The role also develops scalable engagement frameworks, presents pipeline insights to leadership, and partners with Account Executives and technical customer success teams in a B2B technology environment.

Lead hands-on engineering for an AI-powered email application across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Design reliable AI workflows involving orchestration, state, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. Define APIs and abstractions, make architecture and scalability decisions, improve observability and reliability, and lead a small team of senior engineers through technical reviews, mentorship, and production delivery.

Leads lab-in-the-loop biology programs that connect experimental design with machine learning model development. Oversees closed-loop experiments, model-output verification, perturbation studies, data generation, assay and model-system development, automation, metadata standards, CRO and vendor relationships, budgets, and cross-functional collaboration. Builds and mentors technical teams while aligning experimental and computational groups across a matrixed biotech organization.

Conduct research on frontier AI systems and develop datasets, experiments, prototypes, tooling, evaluation frameworks, and reinforcement learning environments. Investigate synthetic and agentic data generation, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation. Collaborate with research, engineering, product, and operations teams to translate findings into scalable AI applications, while contributing to technical publications, open-source work, mentorship, and the broader AI research community.

Conduct frontier AI research and build research-grade datasets, prototypes, tooling, reinforcement learning environments, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks. Design rigorous experiments, train and evaluate models, investigate synthetic and agentic data generation, and translate findings into scalable products. Collaborate with research, engineering, product, and operations teams, communicate technical insights, contribute to publications and open-source work, and mentor peers. This is a fully onsite role based in San Francisco, Palo Alto, or Seattle.

Conduct original research to evaluate, train, and improve frontier AI systems. Design benchmarks, synthetic-data methods, reliability and hallucination evaluations, verification techniques, and agentic science workflows. Identify research gaps, formulate hypotheses, build experiments and evaluation pipelines, publish findings, and develop new research directions across STEM and AI. The role requires strong Python skills, quantitative reasoning, technical writing, and expertise with modern LLMs.

Conduct original research to evaluate, train, and improve frontier AI systems. Responsibilities include developing STEM benchmarks, synthetic data methods, reliability and hallucination evaluations, verification techniques, and agentic science workflows. The role involves identifying research gaps, designing rigorous experiments, building evaluation pipelines, publishing findings, and proposing new research directions across reasoning, AI evaluation, data generation, and AI-for-science.

Conduct frontier AI research and build research-grade datasets, prototypes, tooling, reinforcement learning environments, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks. Investigate synthetic and agentic data generation, post-training, model understanding, and model capabilities. Design rigorous experiments, analyze results, and translate findings into scalable products and AI systems while collaborating across research, engineering, product, and operations teams.