Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, train, and evaluate advanced machine learning models for autonomous driving, simulation, and ML platforms. Lead small cross-functional engineering teams, establish data and experiment practices for petabyte-scale training, address long-tail model failures, and work with multimodal datasets exceeding 100TB. The role requires commercial robotics experience, mentoring capability, expertise in VLA or generative world models, Python/PyTorch, sensor processing, and potentially edge deployment.

Leads Intermedia’s global accounting organization and financial reporting operations, including GAAP compliance, audits, tax, internal controls, revenue accounting, close processes, and business combinations. Partners with executive leadership on strategy, projections, growth initiatives, and operational improvement. Builds and mentors a high-performing global team while advancing technology-enabled automation and process efficiency across the CFO organization.

Leads technical sales and executive evangelism for Verint’s Open CCaaS and CX Automation platform. Acts as a trusted advisor to C-suite customers, articulating ROI, AI, data science, and platform capabilities. Partners with Product, Sales, Solutions, Services, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to drive adoption, expansion, thought leadership, and opportunity closure. Requires deep contact center operations experience, strong data architecture knowledge, executive communication skills, and extensive travel.

Design and deploy production ML/AI architectures on the Databricks platform, lead Generative AI (LLM, RAG, agent) implementations, optimize and scale MLOps pipelines, provide technical pre-sales support, and translate customer feedback into product improvements while mentoring peers and meeting delivery milestones.

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.

Source, engage, and qualify technical candidates using LinkedIn, GitHub, X‑Ray, and other tools. Build pipelines for engineering and technical leadership roles, run outreach campaigns, perform initial screening, document candidate details in ATS/CRM, and partner with recruiters to meet client hiring timelines while improving sourcing strategies.

Lead product analytics to improve user growth, engagement, retention, and revenue. Design and analyze A/B and multivariate experiments, perform funnel/cohort analyses, maintain KPIs and dashboards, ensure event tracking, leverage ML and AI tools for advanced analyses, and translate insights into product recommendations across cross-functional teams.

The AI/Machine Learning Specialist designs and implements AI solutions, collaborates with cross-functional teams, and continuously improves ML processes.

Design and lead end-to-end AI solution architectures, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance. Translate business and regulatory requirements into technical designs, evaluate tools/platforms, document architecture standards, coordinate technical teams, and support deployment and ongoing improvements.

Lead complex, cross-functional AI programs end-to-end: translate strategy into integrated plans, drive multi-team execution, mitigate risks (data, model, compliance), apply ML lifecycle practices, use Agile/kanban methods, manage budgets/vendors, communicate to senior stakeholders, and mentor other program managers to improve AI program standards.

Design and implement machine learning models to solve business problems, analyze data for insights, and optimize model performance.

Build and maintain backend APIs and data pipelines that ingest and process large-scale construction data (360° video, schedules, IoT). Optimize storage and query performance using DuckDB and PostgreSQL, extend Airflow workflows, integrate Wasm for local computation, monitor data quality, and collaborate with frontend, CV, and ML teams to deploy production models and analytics.

Pre-sales Solutions Architect who defines technical strategy and drives Databricks adoption across large enterprise accounts. Leads technical engagements, builds executive relationships and internal champions, mentors team members, and maps ML/AI use cases to Databricks solutions. Supports proofs-of-concept and guides production implementations.

Manages client relationships and technology and analytics project delivery. Advises data science and engineering teams on business analysis, technology approaches, project scope, schedules, costs, risks, and quality assurance. Develops client engagement strategies, technology roadmaps, proposals, statements of work, and pricing. Partners with executives to identify portfolio growth opportunities and communicates the business value of analytics, statistics, and machine learning.

Designs and operates production multi-agent AI systems, LLM workflows, scoring and optimization algorithms, and closed-loop autonomous processes. Responsibilities include AI model evaluation, production monitoring, governance, third-party AI integration, federated data retrieval, and identifying patentable inventions. The role requires deep machine learning expertise, algorithm development, and deployment experience across complex operational environments.

Leads Mercury’s cross-line AI/ML research capability across insurance products. Responsibilities include setting strategy, building a research tooling team, modernizing workflows, developing model monitoring and AI infrastructure, establishing responsible AI guardrails, partnering across technology and data science teams, driving adoption, and coaching talent. The role requires strong quantitative, insurance analytics, Python, machine learning, generative AI, and LLM evaluation expertise, along with substantial people and cross-functional leadership experience.

Drive go-to-market execution across Nabla’s product portfolio, including positioning, messaging, sales enablement, competitive intelligence, demand-generation partnerships, customer adoption content, and event support. Progress into owning go-to-market strategy for specific products from early definition through launch and adoption, partnering with Product and Engineering and tracking launch success metrics.

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 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.

Build large-scale machine learning systems for advertising, including ranking, recommendation, targeting, prediction, optimization, and creative generation. Develop feedback loops connecting generative AI outputs to advertising performance signals, apply prompt engineering and post-training methods, run experiments, and ship reliable production ML systems. Collaborate across Product, Research, Engineering, and go-to-market teams to deliver AI-native advertising products.

Lead end-to-end healthcare analytics projects, managing scope, planning, execution, client relationships, cross-functional collaboration, risks, and delivery. Provide thought leadership in healthcare analytics and identify business opportunities within client accounts. Required capabilities include quantitative analysis, project management, communication, presentation, SQL/Python/R proficiency, and strategic use of AI tools. Preferred experience includes consulting, cloud analytics platforms, healthcare data regulations, predictive modeling, machine learning, and data visualization.

Leads architecture and development of production-grade mapping and localization ML systems for autonomous vehicles. Designs neural models for detection, segmentation, tracking, depth estimation, 3D reconstruction, and semantic mapping; owns data strategy, evaluation, deployment, and fleet validation. Mentors engineers, drives technical roadmaps, collaborates cross-functionally, and advances vectorized HD mapping, foundation models, and real-time optimization.

Own end-to-end design for complex financial product experiences from exploration through launch and iteration. Translate financial workflows into intuitive customer experiences, set high standards for interaction and visual design, partner with product and engineering, use research and data to guide decisions, contribute to design systems, present work clearly, and mentor teammates. Apply AI-enabled tools thoughtfully while maintaining strong human-centered judgment.