Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build and productionize AI systems for logistics: multi-agent copilots, forecasting/optimization models, evaluation and observability, continuous learning loops, and operational reliability. Mentor engineers and make build-vs-rule tradeoffs while shipping high-impact ML services.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll build and deploy ML models for risk and fraud detection, leading technical efforts and collaborating cross-functionally.

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will build and optimize ML systems for CRM marketing, collaborating with cross-functional teams to impact customer engagement and product functionality.

Looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to enhance AI capabilities in image analysis and structured data. Responsibilities include developing computer vision models, deploying ML systems, and collaborating with engineering teams.

As a Senior MLOps Engineer, you will manage production ML systems, define lifecycle strategies, optimize ML pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance ML operations.

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will fine-tune transformer models, deploy machine learning solutions, and work with cross-functional teams on innovative projects.

Design, build, and deploy machine learning models for a payments platform, overseeing end-to-end solutions and experimentation, while monitoring models in production.

The job involves building responsive web dashboards, advanced data visualizations, and analytics tools for unmanned aircraft systems, requiring a deep understanding of UI/UX design and data presentation.

Design and maintain datasets, build and evaluate domain-specific ML and vision-language models for real-time privileged access threat detection; deploy and optimize Python/Docker inference services integrated with WebSocket/WebRTC and protocol-level interfaces; monitor and document production models.

Design and implement AI-powered data pipelines and LLM-based mapping to parse, normalize, and validate structured and unstructured data. Build mapping logic, ingestion templates, and load-ready outputs; integrate ML/AI solutions with enterprise systems (APIs, databases, Azure); validate accuracy with stakeholders; document for scalability and production readiness while reducing manual mapping and improving data quality.

Seeking a Principal AI/ML Researcher and Engineer to lead research and development in Bayesian Learning and Reinforcement Learning. This role involves architecting large-scale AI systems, model development, and driving technical strategy for innovative AI platforms that enhance personalization and decision-making at Airbnb.

Responsible for fine-tuning state-of-the-art LLMs, optimizing models for deployment, and driving AI architectural decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop impactful AI products.

The Staff ML/AI Platform Engineer will design, prototype and deploy AI/ML models, optimize pipelines, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate closely with other teams to develop machine learning solutions.

The Director of AI & ML is responsible for establishing and leading the AI function, defining AI strategy, building a high-performing team, and delivering production-grade ML and AI solutions within healthcare payer workflows.

Design, build, and own production ML and LLM-driven features (RAG, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, semantic search). Write maintainable code, create design docs, troubleshoot issues, collaborate with product/design, and participate in Agile development. Work with Python/Java/JavaScript, ML frameworks, and cloud/container technologies.

Drive technical direction and architecture for AI Context systems across HubSpot's CRM: develop, evaluate, productionize, and monitor ML/LLM models; build scalable data processing, retrieval, feature generation, and serving systems; lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and measure customer and business impact while addressing privacy, bias, security, reliability, cost, and data governance.

Design, build, and operate cloud-native data and ML infrastructure for real-time and batch workloads. Implement reproducible training, evaluation, and inference pipelines; integrate event streams; monitor data quality, model performance, latency, and cost; automate deployments with IaC and CI/CD; collaborate with product, data science, and security teams; produce docs, dashboards, and runbooks.

The Applied Scientist AI/ML Intern will work on building data pipelines, finetuning LLMs, and deploying AI models in a collaborative team environment.

The role involves designing and building AI components for a platform, specifically focusing on NLP and ML for catalog mapping and anomaly detection, along with feedback mechanisms.

As a Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, you will lead ML research, develop evaluation frameworks, mentor researchers, and collaborate on clinical AI solutions.

Lead a team of machine learning data scientists, overseeing model development for fraud detection and risk assessment, and ensuring quality throughout the model lifecycle while mentoring the team.

The role involves developing and deploying machine learning solutions, optimizing models, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include cloud architecture, algorithm engineering, and infrastructure best practices.

Design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade AI/ML and LLM systems (including RAG and agentic pipelines). Integrate AI capabilities with product workflows, run evaluation and monitoring, optimize model and system performance, and apply strong engineering practices (testing, CI/CD, versioning).

Design and implement production ML features, close behavior gaps with common frameworks, investigate divergences, improve performance and stability, and document designs and tests for geospatial and large-scale ML workflows.

Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end machine learning models using statistical and ML algorithms. Prepare and enrich data, implement scalable PySpark/Databricks solutions, and collaborate with product and engineering to create personalized customer experiences and actionable insights.