Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The SAP Innovation Architect will design SAP automations, mentor engineers, and drive innovation in AI-driven SAP operations, while ensuring scalability and security in integrations.

Act as the technical lead in enterprise sales: run technical discovery, design and deliver customized demos and POCs, assess API/cloud/model fit, address technical objections, support contract negotiations, and relay product feedback to engineering while staying current on AI/ML trends.

Manage and grow strategic partnerships across US & Canada for a Google Cloud-focused AI and data consultancy. Drive co-sell initiatives, GTM planning, partner enablement, joint marketing, event execution, partner onboarding, and pipeline generation while tracking partner performance and reporting impact.

Lead strategy and build 0->1 AI products that streamline complex healthcare workflows across providers, pharmacies, patients, and pharma partners. Own roadmap, requirements, metrics, and product performance; partner with engineering, data, clinical, and commercial teams to launch and iterate AI-enabled solutions that drive adoption and measurable business and patient outcomes.

Lead enterprise business systems (NetSuite, Salesforce, Workday, Boomi) strategy and delivery. Architect integrations and AI/ML workflows, manage delivery teams and vendors, improve SDLC, ensure data alignment with analytics, and drive automation to increase operational efficiency and measurable ROI.

Define and execute the companys AI strategy; build and lead the data science, ML engineering, and AI teams; govern intake, prioritization, and AI guardrails; advance production ML, MLOps, LLMs and agentic workflows; partner cross-functionally to deliver measurable ROI; and report AI impact and roadmap to the CEO and board.

Lead backend architecture and implementation for scalable, reliable cloud-hosted web products. Mentor engineers, set standards, integrate agentic AI coding tools, design systems applying ML to large datasets, and balance customer-facing features with technical debt and performance.

Lead the Contracts product roadmap for a B2B healthcare SaaS platform, applying deep reimbursement and managed care expertise. Partner with AI engineers to build contract-understanding models, drive adoption, iterate on workflows, create business cases, and coordinate cross-functionally with Legal, Finance, Sales, and SMEs to ensure compliant, revenue-aligned contract execution.

Lead engineering team to define and execute threat detection, platform, analytics, and automation roadmaps. Advance automated, AI-augmented detection and response across SIEM/EDR/NDR/SOAR and cloud environments, partner with Incident Response, and drive measurable risk reduction via metrics and team development.

Lead technical engagements with public sector customers, onboard and train users, analyze infrastructure and workflows, drive migration from on-prem to cloud HPC, collaborate with architects and product teams, and present Rescale solutions to grow customer adoption and improve the ScaleX platform.

Design and execute research for early, noninvasive cancer detection using cfDNA. Lead molecular and clinical data analysis, develop high-throughput NGS bioinformatics pipelines, collaborate with wet lab teams to assess assay performance and iterate on experimental methods, and propose computational improvements for assays and models.

Embed with customers to discover needs, design and implement production-grade integrations (APIs, data pipelines, event-driven workflows), deploy and troubleshoot solutions, train IT teams, and drive adoption and measurable business outcomes.

Develops and deploys machine learning systems for high-stakes decisions in pricing, claims, underwriting, and predictive health. Responsibilities span problem framing, quantitative research, experimentation, causal inference, predictive modeling, multimodal and foundation model development, agent systems, production deployment, and ongoing iteration. The role requires strong mathematical and statistical foundations, Python fluency, and expertise in machine learning, statistics, econometrics, or causal inference.

Build and deploy computer vision and machine learning solutions for power grid infrastructure, including defect detection, thermal anomalies, vegetation monitoring, and intrusion surveillance. Responsibilities span research implementation, model experimentation, error analysis, data pipelines, experiment tracking, model serving, testing, monitoring, and client delivery. The role requires productionizing models, adapting research papers, optimizing architectures, and independently owning projects from problem definition through deployment.

Own end-to-end computer vision and machine learning projects for power grid infrastructure, from problem framing and research experimentation through production deployment and monitoring. Develop detection, segmentation, classification, anomaly detection, and foundation-model solutions; build data pipelines, serving systems, experiment tracking, and model versioning. Conduct error analysis, benchmarking, tuning, code reviews, and testing while translating client requirements into reliable production models and communicating technical decisions and limitations.

Build and improve machine learning systems for ad ranking, relevance, and optimization. Responsibilities include developing active learning and LLM-assisted labeling workflows, owning experimentation and evaluation, and deploying low-latency inference services. The role partners with product, data, and platform teams to improve advertiser performance and user engagement while ensuring production reliability, scalability, latency, and data quality. Candidates will use Python, Go, AWS, distributed systems, and AI-assisted development tools.

Lead the development of deep learning models for email data, optimize models, design evaluation frameworks, integrate products, and mentor junior researchers.

Lead onboarding and training for new customers of an AI-powered construction SaaS. Customize training, run webinars and office hours, create documentation, drive user adoption, surface issues with support, and collaborate with product and customer success to refine onboarding processes.

Lead strategy, roadmap, and delivery for Tekmetric's SaaS product for auto repair shops. Own user research, AI/ML product initiatives, cross-functional alignment, go-to-market coordination, and measurement of business outcomes. Train internal teams and iterate on features from concept through launch and optimization.

Lead design and production deployment of ML models focused on pricing, availability, forecasting, and optimization. Build data infrastructure, governance, testing/monitoring, and dashboards. Partner with executives and cross-functional teams, mentor others, and establish scalable data-science practices and experimentation frameworks.

Develop and maintain customer-facing libraries and online inference services for low-latency, reliable real-time predictions. Optimize and deploy LLMs for efficient GPU inference, maintain a model registry, and improve ML Platform CI/CD, observability, and incident management. Collaborate cross-functionally to productize models and accelerate research-to-production velocity for Netflix ML practitioners.

Design, implement, and evaluate alignment and quality metrics for member-facing LLM and recommendation systems. Build tools and pipelines for RLHF, reward modeling, fine-tuning, and human-in-the-loop evaluation. Collaborate cross-functionally, write production-quality code, and improve model robustness and metrics using member feedback and large-scale distributed systems.

Lead design and implementation of Metaflow to build, manage, and scale ML applications. Partner with ML researchers, OSS community, and cross-functional teams to improve ML platform reliability, CI/CD, observability, and developer velocity.

Design, build, and operate low-latency, high-QPS ML model serving and feature systems for real-time ad decisioning. Scale inference, ensure online/offline feature consistency, productionize ranking and scoring models, implement monitoring and simulation infrastructure, and partner with Data Science to validate and rollout models safely.

Develop, optimize, and deploy scalable predictive ML models to inform content strategy, valuation, scheduling, and performance. Own end-to-end model lifecycle (feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring) and partner with analytics, data engineering, MLOps, and content teams to scale production solutions and influence ML infrastructure.