Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Customer-facing technical role supporting AI/ML initiatives across US Major Accounts. Architect and prototype AI/ML solutions, build MVPs and PoCs, support regional SE teams, deliver technical presentations and workshops, and upskill teams. Travel ~30-40% to support customer engagements.

Lead design, build, and maintain scalable ML infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Collaborate with data science and operations teams to deploy containerized models (Docker/Kubernetes), optimize cloud resource usage and security, apply IaC (Terraform), and mentor junior engineers.

Design, train, and deploy scalable ML models (generative, classification, regression). Define feature roadmaps, collaborate with engineering to implement code and APIs, adapt ML methods for distributed/GPU environments, and create evaluation/annotation programs for fine-tuning and performance measurement.

Design, build, and deploy scalable AI/ML systems and pipelines. Develop reusable Python packages, RAG/LLM integrations, agentic workflows, evaluation/monitoring frameworks, optimized data queries, and MLOps practices while collaborating across cross-functional teams.

Design, train, evaluate, and deploy predictive transportation and delivery ML models (primarily XGBoost). Perform EDA, feature engineering, experiment design, and statistical evaluation. Build production ML pipelines and MLOps practices on Google Vertex AI. Collaborate with data engineering and supply chain stakeholders to translate operational needs into scalable solutions.

Design, build, and own production ML and LLM-powered product features (chat, RAG, semantic search, data extraction). Write maintainable code and docs, debug issues, collaborate with product and design, follow Agile practices, and stay current on AI/ML methods.

Own and improve recommendation and search systems across feed, discovery, and search. Build retrieval and ranking (candidate generation, embeddings, two-tower models), run experiments, create user/content/session representations, and ship production ML systems with monitoring to improve retention, engagement, and content distribution.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable ML and AI platform infrastructure for model training, deployment, feature engineering, candidate generation, agent deployment, and observability. Collaborate with data scientists and engineers, support platform operations, drive improvements, codify best practices, and influence platform investments to enable production ML systems at scale.

The Senior Analyst in Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning develops and maintains statistical models to support business decisions, monitors model performance, and collaborates with stakeholders across the company.

Design and implement scalable ML solutions for customer experience problems. Analyze customer data, research and deploy ML/NLP models, automate model development and validation, and produce performance analyses.

Design, build, and ship AI-powered observability features using LLMs and agentic workflows. Rapidly prototype, iterate with real users, integrate AI into alerting, runbooks, and developer workflows, and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and production-ready while collaborating cross-functionally.

Lead design, deployment, and monitoring of predictive models for credit risk, collections, and operations. Drive adoption of modern ML and MLOps, mentor data scientists, define strategic roadmap, advise senior leadership, and ensure model governance and regulatory compliance.

The Machine Learning Engineer will execute the full ML lifecycle, collaborating on model implementation and improving customer experiences through data-driven insights.

Lead the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle for AI products, managing data pipelines and model development to optimize performance and accuracy in production.

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you'll develop and deploy ML models for medical imaging, collaborate with teams, and optimize for production environments.

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will manage the full ML lifecycle, collaborating with teams to develop scalable systems that improve product decisions and empower monetization strategies.

The Staff Machine Learning Engineer will lead ML initiatives, develop AI systems, optimize pipelines, and mentor team members to automate healthcare processes.

Develop leading machine learning frameworks for NVIDIA Earth-2, validate applications, and implement new ideas in deep learning for weather and climate AI.

Lead research on humanistic AI for autonomous systems. Collaborate with teams, design experiments, and publish findings in top-tier publications.

Build and maintain internal web tools supporting ML workflows. Develop backend services, frontend features, and deployments; participate in on-call rotations and code reviews; collaborate with partner teams to scale ML tooling and improve authentication and deployment processes.

Lead end-to-end technical programs for ML infrastructure (inference, serving, efficiency, endpoints). Coordinate cross-functional teams, prioritize overlapping projects, manage timelines, budgets and scope, drive incident management and continuous improvement, and communicate status to engineering and leadership.

As a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Root, you'll build scalable ML systems, partner with data scientists, and improve operational practices for customer lifetime value modeling.

The role involves applying established ML techniques to cybersecurity data problems, integrating ML outputs into data pipelines, and ensuring model reliability. Collaboration with engineers and product teams is key, along with strong communication skills and understanding of data flow.

Lead the strategy and implementation of AI solutions in R&D, driving adoption and improving operational efficiency through advanced analytics. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design AI/ML models and evaluate new technologies.

Design, build, and operate ML infrastructure powering data, compute, artifacts, and orchestration across cloud and on-prem. Own backend services, storage, observability, security, and developer tools; collaborate with cloud/compute providers and lead reliability and scaling efforts.