Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

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.

Lead the development and production deployment of applied machine learning and LLM solutions across product, marketing, and operations. Own ranking, recommendation, filtering, personalization, experimentation, and model evaluation systems. Partner with business and technical teams to identify valuable use cases, establish modeling best practices, and ensure reliable production deployment. Manage and mentor applied ML practitioners while maintaining technical rigor, business alignment, and measurable customer and revenue impact.

Build scientific advisory and technical enablement programs for enterprise and research partners adopting an AI materials platform. Engage computational chemists and materials scientists, provide technical guidance, lead workshops and demonstrations, create documentation, notebooks, APIs, and reference materials, and relay partner feedback to AI Research, Chemistry, Product, Marketing, and PR teams.

Design, build, and deploy autonomous AI agents using LLMs and agent frameworks; integrate agents into e-commerce and supply chain systems; implement multi-agent orchestration, memory and tool integrations; fine-tune models and apply RL concepts; and build safety, monitoring, and MLOps pipelines.

Lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of production AI and ML systems. Build high-throughput Python services and Databricks pipelines, support traditional ML and LLM applications, establish testing and deployment standards, and develop monitoring for quality, reliability, latency, throughput, and cost. Partner with product, research, and responsible AI teams on governance and release criteria. Provide architectural leadership, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and resolve complex technical dependencies.

Develop AI and machine learning solutions for fraud, anomaly detection, semantic search, entity resolution, and investigative analytics. Build and operationalize models across structured and unstructured data using AWS data lakehouse services, generative AI, NLP, graph analytics, and document intelligence. Evaluate model performance, explainability, monitoring, and risk scoring while supporting production integration, dashboards, and investigative workflows. Collaborate with technical teams, investigators, stakeholders, and federal clients in an Agile environment.

Leads client-facing data science and analytics initiatives, translating complex marketing and media data into actionable business narratives. Develops measurement strategies, including test/holdout incrementality, informs acquisition and retention decisions, scales analytics best practices, and manages analyst teams. Partners with Sales, Client Services, Operations, and other stakeholders while supporting predictive and adaptive AI/ML solutions. The role requires strong client communication, strategic leadership, analytics expertise, and proficiency with Python, SQL, Tableau, and related tools.

Leads data engineering, Palantir Skywise architecture, and AI solution development for Airbus manufacturing and operational environments. Builds scalable pipelines, analytical workflows, machine learning and generative AI applications, and enterprise data foundations. Oversees Alteryx and Tableau platforms, establishes governance, mentors technical teams, translates business challenges into data products, and supports AI Center of Excellence initiatives. The role is onsite 60% across several U.S. locations and requires approximately 10% travel.

Leads and builds the mid-market business development function, owning territory strategy and the full sales cycle for pharma and biotech accounts. Develops and coaches a high-performing BD team, drives pipeline and new-logo acquisition, closes multi-year SaaS deals, and partners with marketing, strategy, product, and commercial operations. Represents the company at industry events and contributes to commercial frameworks, forecasting, segmentation, and coverage models.