Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build and productionize statistical and ML models to optimize advertiser performance and business goals in mobile ad tech. Tune optimization, model competition and dynamic environments, design experiments, develop budget retention/growth and bidding systems, and collaborate across engineering and business teams while ensuring explainable, well-tested solutions.

Lead development and production of underwriting and credit decisioning models across Cash App Borrow and Afterpay. Own full modeling lifecycle: problem formulation, feature engineering, training, calibration, experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Build decision frameworks, agentic engineering workflows, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to align model behavior with business and regulatory goals.

Develop, evaluate, deploy, and manage AI-powered systems across their lifecycle. Build machine learning systems, data pipelines, AI agents, automated testing frameworks, and secure GitLab CI/CD workflows. Deploy and scale models across distributed infrastructure using Kubernetes, Ray, or Slurm, while optimizing GPU performance and inference. Conduct model benchmarking, error analysis, and performance monitoring, and communicate findings through analytics dashboards. Own features from design through production and coordinate work across repositories and communities.

Develop optimized GPU algorithms and high-performance machine learning solutions for vector search, databases, and data processing. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, benchmarking, debugging, and optimizing C++, CUDA, and Python libraries; developing clustering and visualization algorithms; collaborating cross-functionally; and contributing to open-source projects such as cuML, cuVS, and RAFT.

Serve as primary client contact for a portfolio of loyalty-program clients. Scope and manage end-to-end actuarial analyses rooted in predictive modeling and machine learning, validate model outputs, translate results into clear recommendations and presentations, and partner with analysts and data scientists to deliver high-quality, client-facing work in a fully remote consulting environment.

Partner with a retained search firm to place software engineers and quant developers at top hedge funds. Provide candidate flow from your network; firm supplies clients, process, and fees. Remote, commission-only role with placement and pipeline incentives. Apply with placement examples, outreach metrics, and a candidate submission.

Own and close the company’s largest, most complex public-sector enterprise deals. Prospect and grow territory, navigate multi-stakeholder procurement, manage forecasting and pipeline, expand revenue within major accounts, and mentor Account Executives by providing strategic deal support and operational leadership.

Lead technical strategy and hands-on engineering for Airbnb's AI-powered ads growth engine. Architect scalable systems for creative generation, bidding, budget optimization, and audience management across paid channels. Write and review code, set standards for availability and quality, collaborate with Marketing/Product/ML teams, roll out staged automation, and mentor engineers to advance platform autonomy while ensuring brand safety and human-in-the-loop controls.

Lead and align ML, data, and engineering teams to define multi-year AI roadmaps, deliver production ML solutions, ensure robust data pipelines, set success metrics tied to business outcomes, and grow/mentor senior managers and engineers.

Lead and build a data science organization to create a prediction engine for vendor matching, order routing, and supply chain optimization. Anchor projects to P&L, design measurement and experiment frameworks, ship rapid wins, hire and coach data scientists, work hands-on in modeling and technical design, partner with product and engineering (Snowflake), and evolve systems toward agentic AI while reporting impact in dollar terms.

Build, ship, and own end-to-end ML models for vendor matching, order routing, and supply-chain optimization. Partner with data engineering to productionize models, quantify impact, document work, and implement decision logic components toward agentic AI in a fast-moving healthcare startup environment.

Own end-to-end modeling for vendor matching, order routing, and supply-chain optimization. Build predictive, causal, RL and OR solutions; design autonomous decision logic; quantify counterfactual impact; ship production models with data engineering; mentor senior data scientists; write technical design docs; partner on quarterly priorities and expand into revenue cycle and finance domains.

Build and optimize production systems for heterogeneous machine learning models, including small models, medium models, and LLMs. Develop distributed systems for large-scale data processing, model training and validation, experimentation, deployment, and CI/CD. Ensure system robustness, scalability, and long-term maintainability while supporting data management and evolving model-development workflows.

Lead product strategy and execution for AI-native, self-driving enterprise wireless networks. Engage customers, define roadmaps, validate concepts, and partner with engineering, AI/ML, and cloud teams to deliver automation, observability, predictive insights, and operational troubleshooting capabilities that simplify WLAN management and improve network resiliency.

Lead and scale a strategic sales channel for an LTL logistics company, building high-performance sales teams, aligning commercial strategy with operations, driving growth through CRM and Power BI analytics, and executing aggressive performance and travel-heavy sales plans.

Lead the commercial engine: build partnership function, close enterprise platform partnerships, own full marketing (positioning, content, paid, website), design AI-leveraged GTM stack, translate product-market fit, run pipeline and commercial reporting, and hire a team when metrics justify growth.

The Staff Product Manager will define product strategy, lead the product lifecycle, collaborate across teams, and drive innovation in claims processing software.

Lead procurement strategy and supplier selection for inbound products and services. Manage RFIs/RFPs, negotiate contracts with Legal, administer Coupa purchase orders, reconcile invoices, and apply AI/ML and reporting tools to optimize procurement processes while collaborating with cross-functional senior stakeholders.

Own RevOps data models and BI infrastructure to drive GTM strategy. Clean and analyze datasets, build predictive models, define and track leading/lagging KPIs, deploy dashboards, document data definitions, and deliver executive-ready insights while partnering cross-functionally with Finance and GTM teams.

The Director of System Safety oversees safety functions for autonomous vehicles, managing safety cases, deployment plans, and regulatory relationships while leading a multi-disciplinary safety team.

Lead development of time-series and econometric models (ARIMA, VAR, state-space, WLS, panel data) and Bayesian probabilistic frameworks. Use causal inference and stochastic processes to produce actionable insights, work with large datasets on Databricks, communicate results to stakeholders, and mentor junior team members.

Own a product area of the Content Authoring Platform end-to-end: set vision and roadmap, run continuous discovery, define and measure outcomes, partner with engineering and design to deliver features, evaluate and apply AI capabilities prudently, mentor peers, and communicate strategy and trade-offs to stakeholders.

Lead client-facing full-stack Java development, mentor teams, design solutions, promote engineering best practices (Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, TDD), and deliver enterprise software using modern cloud, container, and JS frameworks.

As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will lead the AI Platform team to define roadmaps, collaborate with technical experts, and improve healthcare delivery by leveraging AI technologies.

The Global Process Owner for S&OP leads the design and continuous improvement of the S&OP process, ensures collaboration across functions, and drives digital transformation and automation within the organization.