Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Manage a team of ML engineers to build and optimize Affirm's economic decisioning engine using advanced ML techniques. Collaborate across teams, provide technical leadership, and mentor engineers while driving a cohesive long-term ML strategy.

The Sr. Machine Learning Engineer will develop and deploy ML solutions for healthcare, manage data pipelines, and work with large datasets to enhance healthcare delivery.

As an AI Engineering Manager at PwC, you will lead the design and operation of AI-powered platforms, mentor engineers, and ensure project delivery excellence while focusing on security and scalability.

As a Staff Applied ML Scientist, you will develop and maintain fraud detection models, conduct research on fraud types, and collaborate across teams to drive product development and real-time decision-making.

As a Senior Applied ML Scientist, you'll develop fraud detection models, research new fraud types, and write production code while collaborating across teams to enhance SentiLink's identity verification solutions.

Design, build, and operate production ML decision systems to detect and prevent payment fraud, account takeover, scams, and other abuse. Integrate diverse signals into low-latency serving and batch scoring, own feature pipelines and model lifecycle, develop AI-assisted triage and feedback loops, and partner cross-functionally to balance fraud reduction with legitimate customer access.

Lead the machine learning strategy, design scalable ML systems, drive MLOps, mentor engineers, and comply with AI governance.

Design, build, and operate production ML systems that generate trusted signals for ranking, retrieval, recommendations, propensity/churn/LTV, and next-best-action decisioning. Define signal/data contracts, own feature and candidate generation through serving, experimentation, monitoring, and feedback loops, and evaluate long-term business impact, trust, fairness, and compliance. Partner across product, data, modeling, risk, and compliance and apply AI/agents to accelerate engineering and operations.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll architect and code backend services and ML models, integrate them with Salesforce, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, deploy, and maintain end-to-end ML risk solutions at scale to detect and prevent fraud, merchant risk, and credit loss. Partner with cross-functional teams, lead technical decisions, build ML tooling, monitor models in production, and investigate emerging abuse patterns to improve detection and decisioning.

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 architecture and delivery of Project Velocity: design, build, and deploy AI/ML applications and document processing pipelines to modernize pricing and estimating. Integrate solutions with enterprise platforms, ensure security/compliance, validate models, track KPIs, and drive stakeholder adoption and training.

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.

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.

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 informatics technical strategy and execution for materials engineering programs. Provide architecture and technical authority, drive AI/ML-enabled materials discovery, approve documentation, manage cross-functional risk, mentor engineers, and engage external partners and customers to deliver complex engineering projects.

Lead and deliver complex, cross-team AI product programs, drive agent-first SDLC adoption, ensure integration and operational readiness of AI workflows, define metrics, communicate risks and status, and standardize TPM best practices across Product and Engineering.

Transfyr seeks adaptable builders for various roles across CS, biology, and business. Responsibilities include developing sensor stacks, data harmonization, computer vision, machine learning systems, lab operations, project management, and business development.

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.

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.

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will design AI products on Edge devices, optimize ML model performance, and work with large-scale datasets, collaborating across teams to deliver impactful solutions.

As an ML Ops Infrastructure Engineer, you will design CI/CD pipelines for ML, maintain deployment systems, and implement monitoring while collaborating with research teams to ensure model quality and performance.

As a Systems Architect, you'll define and drive the infrastructure architecture for AI/ML workloads, design multi-cloud strategies, manage compute orchestration and storage systems, and lead capacity planning, while also collaborating with engineering leadership.

The engineer will build and operate AI/ML infrastructure, managing services on AWS and bare metal, using tools like Kubernetes and Terraform.