Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will develop core ML models, manage data pipelines, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable ML solutions.

Drive data-informed capital allocation by building financial models (NPV, IRR), applying AI/ML for forecasting and scenario planning, creating build-vs-buy and prioritization frameworks, implementing decision-support systems, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, and monitoring post-investment performance to refine allocation models.

Design, implement, and optimize AI-powered solutions to support financial compliance and controls. Monitor GAAP/IFRS adherence, automate controls and reporting, support internal/external audits, and manage complex accounting areas like revenue recognition and lease accounting while collaborating with finance, audit, and technology teams.

Design, implement, and monitor AI/ML models to improve underwriting risk assessment, pricing, and portfolio management. Translate underwriting rules into data models, integrate models into workflows, analyze datasets for risk patterns, build decision-support tools, ensure compliance and fairness, and collaborate with underwriting, actuarial, product, and engineering teams.

Contract role combining actuarial science, risk management, and AI to improve portfolio performance. Responsibilities include loss and combined ratio analysis, portfolio risk assessment, catastrophe and exposure modeling, stress testing, and integrating ML to enhance pricing, reserving, and risk selection while collaborating with underwriting, finance, and product teams.

Lead vision, strategy, and roadmap for Fetch's referral growth engine. Own end-to-end referral lifecycle, build incentives, experimentation, AI-driven personalization, and cross-functional initiatives to drive MAU growth and durable network effects.

Senior product engineer owning end-to-end product surfaces for a computer vision platform. Ship features from idea to production, prioritize roadmap, design UX details, integrate APIs, improve annotation and model-assisted labeling, and collaborate with engineering and users to drive product impact.

Design, develop, and evaluate conversational AI agents and generative AI products. Collaborate with AI scientists, ML engineers, and Responsible AI/Model Validation teams to ensure state-of-the-art, ethical solutions and support deployment and integration of conversational systems.

The Solutions Engineer will provide technical support for customers, ensure satisfaction, communicate with sales, and analyze customer needs for product enhancements.

As the Engineering Lead, you will guide product strategy, manage and mentor engineers, and ensure successful execution in product areas, focusing on machine learning and technical expertise across teams.

The Product Manager will lead product development, working with cross-functional teams, driving growth, and creating user experience frameworks.

The Hyperscalers and Commercial Lead will develop technology-driven business strategies, drive customer adoption, and manage end-to-end sales processes while working closely with cross-functional teams.

The role involves researching, developing, and implementing AI solutions, optimizing models, integrating AI into workflows, and collaborating with teams to enhance business efficiency.

Lead pre-sales technical engagements for Conversational and Generative AI solutions, collaborate across teams, and design value-driven demos for enterprise customers.

The Principal Architect will lead AI/ML solutions, mentor teams, and collaborate with clients to design and deliver scalable systems using Google Cloud technologies, ensuring compliance with ethical standards.

The Chief Architect will lead the technical direction for Legion's Workforce Management platform, focusing on architecture decisions, AI systems, and scalable software solutions. Responsibilities include hands-on coding, technical leadership, and ensuring systems meet enterprise standards for performance and security.

Leads data science strategy across Mexico and Brazil, manages and mentors a distributed team, and remains hands-on building and deploying machine learning models. Establishes modeling standards, infrastructure, delivery practices, and technical roadmaps while partnering with credit leadership on underwriting, valuation, impact measurement, and P&L analysis. Requires strong applied machine learning expertise, prior data science leadership, business communication skills, and understanding of credit or underwriting.

The Senior Machine Learning Researcher will design experiments, research new algorithms, and collaborate on deploying models for computer vision and robotics applications.

Leads enterprise sales strategy and revenue growth for AI-powered eDiscovery, legal technology, compliance, analytics, and data intelligence solutions. Builds pipelines, manages complex consultative sales cycles, develops executive client relationships, expands strategic accounts, and positions responsible AI adoption. Partners with product, operations, legal, security, marketing, and executive teams on solution development, pricing, contracts, implementation, and market expansion across corporations, law firms, government, and regulated industries.

As an AI Applications Engineer, you will bridge AI research and implementation, driving experiments, building infrastructure, and releasing products to improve user experience and metrics.

Leads technical solution development for military and federal health capture and proposal efforts. Designs secure cloud, DevSecOps, EHR modernization, interoperability, data, and analytics architectures; develops technical volumes, graphics, compliance matrices, staffing estimates, demonstrations, and presentations. Ensures security and compliance alignment, supports pricing strategy, collaborates across capture and delivery teams, and mentors architects and subject-matter experts.

Serves as the technical and business advisor for Verint’s Open CCaaS platform, selling CX automation solutions to C-suite customers. Builds executive relationships, communicates ROI, leads cross-functional product and sales teams, identifies expansion opportunities, and delivers thought leadership. Requires expertise in AI, data science, contact center operations, data architecture, and cloud platforms, with approximately 30–50% travel.

Lead Elastic’s strategy, vision, and multi-quarter roadmap for vector databases, embedding and reranking models, vector indexing, semantic ingestion, and search capabilities. Conduct market and competitive research, define product metrics, prioritize features, and partner closely with engineering, cloud, and applied research teams. Guide technical trade-offs involving recall, latency, index size, ingestion throughput, model lifecycle, and total cost of ownership across serverless and self-managed deployments.

Leads technology development for composite wind blade design, materials, manufacturing, tooling, and automation. Owns maturation from early research through production implementation, establishes technology roadmaps and stage-gate processes, and applies AI/ML to engineering and manufacturing challenges. Builds technical teams, manages budgets and partnerships, directs modeling and validation, supports production transitions, develops business cases, and protects intellectual property. The role collaborates globally with engineering, operations, quality, suppliers, customers, universities, and technology partners.