Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

Lead Shipium's Data Science, AI, Data Engineering, and BI teams to define multi-year ML/data strategy, run production ML and data platforms, scale hiring and org design, ensure model lifecycle and observability, and own Generative AI infrastructure, evaluation, and vendor decisions to deliver production-grade supply-chain AI capabilities.

The role involves leading ML client engagements, shaping strategies, advising on ML architecture, and influencing project outcomes, while guiding teams and driving business value.

The Junior AI/ML Engineer will deliver machine learning projects, handle Python programming, and learn from a senior team member, focusing on real impact initiatives.

The AI/ML Engineering Manager leads a team of ML engineers and architects, managing hiring, performance, and customer engagements while providing technical guidance in ML operations and architecture.

As a Fraud ML Engineer, you will ensure authentic human data is processed by building detection systems using adversarial ML techniques and managing backend systems.

As an AI/ML Presales Solutions Architect, you will engage with clients to identify problems, create feasible AI solutions, and partner with sales to ensure project delivery aligns with capabilities. You will leverage your extensive experience in AI and cloud platforms to shape presentations and technical discussions with clients.

Develop prototypes, PoCs, and MVPs for GenAI solutions. Apply deep learning and ML principles using Python, Hugging Face, LangChain, OpenAI API, TensorFlow/Keras/PyTorch, and cloud model services. Work with multi-modal data and intelligent agent tools. Be self-motivated, collaborative, and focused on solving hard AI/GenAI problems.

The AI Strategist leads AI initiative ideation and planning, collaborates across departments to define use cases, and ensures alignment with strategic and regulatory goals.

As an AI/ML Architect, you will define scalable AI systems architecture, mentor teams, guide clients, and ensure ethical AI practices.

Build and maintain MLOps pipelines, deploy and monitor ML models as scalable services, transform and integrate healthcare data (FHIR/HL7), ensure reproducible feature management, and uphold HIPAA/HITRUST security for production ML in clinical systems.

As a Senior ML Engineer, you'll own ML-driven features from modeling to deployment, drive innovation in generative AI, and mentor junior members.

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will develop and optimize Generative AI applications, manage AI pipelines, collaborate with clients, and ensure production delivery with MLOps best practices.

Work on vision-language model development and infrastructure: improve VLM understanding, OCR and function-calling workflows, fine-tuning recipes, evaluation and robustness, and optimize training/serving pipelines. Own end-to-end projects from experiments to production-ready code, collaborating on scale, cost, and reliability.

Lead Android-first development of growth experiments and features, using AI-native workflows to design, implement, instrument, and analyze A/B tests. Ship performant, reliable Android experiences at scale, mentor teammates, participate in on-call, and codify AI-native engineering playbooks for broader adoption.

Design and improve ML training frameworks, modularize experiments, adapt fire-hazard detection algorithms for varied electrical environments, build scalable pipelines for high-frequency sensor data, and develop dashboards and tooling to monitor model performance and drift while collaborating across product, data science, and fire safety teams.

Develop and deploy production-grade AI/ML models, design end-to-end pipelines, and ensure compliance while collaborating with stakeholders in a federal environment.

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy ML models for underwriting at Stripe Capital, ensuring performance while collaborating with multiple teams.

The Machine Learning Systems Engineer will optimize ML training systems, improve data pipelines, and develop GPU kernels to enhance scalability and performance.

Lead a team of data scientists developing ML-driven products, managing infrastructure, training models, and ensuring production quality while collaborating with senior leadership.

The role involves designing, training, and evaluating ML models, optimizing performance, and collaborating with teams to implement AI technologies in products.

Develop and deploy advanced ML solutions for OCR and NLP, optimizing models for performance and integrating them into production workflows while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

As a Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer, you'll finetune models, improve data quality, add new signals, and push solutions to production.

Lead and grow the AI/ML Engineering team, manage core AI/ML platform development, ensure production-grade service operational excellence, and develop product strategies.

The Sr. Director, Marketing Planning & Transformation will lead integrated marketing strategies and AI execution, optimize marketing operations, and drive team success in a fast-paced environment.