Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The Senior Databricks AI/ML Engineer will design and deploy AI/ML solutions in the insurance sector, focusing on Databricks architecture, data pipelines, and MLOps workflows, while collaborating with various teams to operationalize models and optimize processes.

This role involves defining and managing the AI platform's roadmap, collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate AI capabilities, and ensuring product quality and reliability metrics.

The Senior AI/ML Engineer will design, build, and deploy Generative AI and ML platforms, ensuring compliance and high performance. Responsibilities include developing foundational services, overseeing model training infrastructure, and mentoring junior engineers.

Design and deliver scalable AI solutions powered by Large Language Models. Collaborate with teams to create cloud-native architectures, enable knowledge discovery, and mentor engineers in AI initiatives.

Lead technical direction and execution of Lime's CX automation platform, building scalable backend services, decision engines, and human-in-the-loop workflows to automate rider issue resolution while enforcing fraud and trust guardrails and improving operational metrics.

Design, build, and maintain scalable AI/ML architectures; collaborate with data scientists, engineers, product, and compliance to integrate models; evaluate tools and processes; monitor performance and ensure industry-standard compliance and ethical practices.

Design, build, and operate production-grade ML systems for personalization, search, and recommendations. Own end-to-end pipelines from data ingestion and modeling to deployment, monitoring, and iteration, ensuring scalable, reliable, and observable services.

Design and build agentic AI workflows for biological and clinical data curation and analysis. Implement context engineering (RAG variants), prompt and agent architecture optimization, LLM tool-use integrations, and evaluation benchmarks. Collaborate with bioinformatics and clinical experts to translate domain problems into reliable, production-quality agentic systems.

Build and own ML platform infrastructure and tooling to enable model development, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Lead realtime model monitoring, experiment tracking, reproducibility, and operational reliability to scale fraud-prevention ML systems in production.

The Senior ML Engineer will develop and optimize machine learning solutions for audience intelligence, build production pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance user engagement and revenue.

Manage AI/ML projects from Proof of Concept to Minimum Viable Product using Agile methodologies while ensuring stakeholder communication and project alignment.

As a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer, you'll architect a scalable ML platform, collaborating with teams to ensure compliance, optimize performance, and guide best practices in ML workflows.

The role involves building and maintaining ML pipelines, optimizing workflows, and contributing to product strategy with a focus on usability.

Design, build, and maintain ELT pipelines and analytics-ready data models to support reporting, KPIs, and downstream ML use cases; implement data quality, optimize pipeline performance, document lineage, and ensure governance and privacy.

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.

Lead QA for AI/ML features: design and execute test plans, build Python automation to validate LLM outputs, guardrails, and data pipelines; perform regression, security/privacy validation, and analyze logs/metrics to ensure reliability.

Design and implement machine learning algorithms for robotic manipulation, focusing on RL and IL. Collaborate across disciplines to ensure integration and successful deployment.

The AI Director will oversee ML bot development and implementation, identify AI opportunities, educate teams, and prototype AI solutions.