Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

Assess AI-enabled products and software against regulatory requirements and standards, supporting conformity assessments, CE marking, certification, and client guidance. Review technical documentation, mentor colleagues, develop assessment procedures and tools, contribute to AI testing methodologies, and support accreditation, quality, and continuous improvement activities. The role requires practical AI/ML experience, regulatory knowledge, strong analytical skills, and collaboration across global multidisciplinary teams.

Develop and optimize large-scale advertising ranking models for CTR and CVR prediction, calibration, user representations, and sequence modeling. Own machine learning systems end to end, including data pipelines, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, and maintenance. Collaborate with platform, product, data science, and engineering teams to run experiments and improve advertiser outcomes, revenue, and user relevance. Apply deep learning and recommendation techniques within production latency, reliability, and cost constraints.

Lead design, execution, and optimization of scaled lifecycle campaigns across email and in-product channels. Use marketing automation, behavioral data, and ML techniques to personalize journeys, drive activation, revenue, retention, and cross-sell. Analyze performance, generate insights, and collaborate with Growth, Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Sales, and Marketing stakeholders.

Lead a team to analyze, optimize, and grow merchant revenue using analytics and AI. Define strategy, set KPIs, deploy ML solutions, drive go-to-market alignment, execute tests, and deliver actionable insights to executives and cross-functional partners.

Lead the hands-on development of Vida’s secure data and AI/ML platform, including ingestion, data modeling, MLOps, model serving, feature pipelines, LLM integrations, DevOps, observability, and infrastructure. Partner with security and IT to protect sensitive health data and meet HIPAA/HITRUST-aligned controls while establishing scalable engineering patterns across the organization.

Conduct machine learning research operations using existing infrastructure. Characterize neural network quality, failure modes, and edge cases; coordinate experiments with researchers; manage concurrent experiments and deadlines; review results; recommend theoretical or process improvements; and prepare technical reports communicating qualitative and quantitative findings.

The Senior Product Manager will set product direction, own the development lifecycle, collaborate with teams, and ensure high-quality outputs. This role requires strong opinions on product quality and customer insights.

The Enterprise Account Executive drives revenue through high-value contracts, managing complex sales processes and relationships with executive stakeholders in financial services.

Lead the Decision Science function, designing ML models, overseeing experimentation frameworks, and ensuring model adoption across the company, driving operational and commercial improvements.

Lead assessment, redesign, and hands-on implementation of data pipelines, ML workflows, and platform infrastructure. Produce prioritized system designs, harden production pipelines, improve observability, reliability, and data quality, and mentor the data team.

Develops AI/ML prototypes, APIs, microservices, integrations, and lightweight user interfaces for federal and DoD-aligned mission workflows. The role integrates and optimizes machine learning models for dashboards and applications, supports data ingestion and preprocessing, validates performance, and helps transition models into production. Collaboration with data scientists, architects, developers, PMO leadership, and cybersecurity teams is required. The position requires five years of relevant experience, a bachelor’s degree, ITIL v4 Foundation certification, and Public Trust or active Secret clearance.

Designs AI/ML pilots, predictive analytics and anomaly detection models, behavioral analytics, content classification, personalization algorithms, and end-to-end machine learning pipelines. Develops prototypes and production-ready solutions, evaluates AI technologies, supports experimentation, integrates ML insights into dashboards, and ensures model governance, explainability, bias mitigation, accuracy, and security compliance in federal and DoD-aligned environments.

Lead go-to-market and partner development for Personal Loans and Point-of-Sale products. Own end-to-end enterprise sales, build C-level relationships, close complex deals, and coordinate cross-functional teams to launch AI-driven consumer lending integrations and scale market presence.

Develop, deploy, and optimize scalable machine learning solutions, including predictive models, deep learning systems, data pipelines, and model-serving infrastructure. Monitor model performance, manage retraining and lifecycle processes, ensure quality and compliance, and support responsible AI practices. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders while researching emerging AI technologies and improving AI architectures.

Leads the architecture, development, deployment, and optimization of enterprise machine learning solutions. Responsibilities include designing scalable ML systems, developing predictive models, supporting MLOps and model lifecycle management, improving data quality and feature engineering, implementing governance and validation frameworks, and mentoring technical teams. The role also contributes to AI strategy, innovation initiatives, responsible AI practices, and organizational modernization.

Lead a global manufacturing engineering organization to standardize processes, drive lean continuous improvement, deploy automation and Industry 4.0 solutions (cobots, ML), and ensure safety, traceability, and zero-defect customer quality across international sites.

Lead product strategy and execution for AI-native, self-driving enterprise wireless networks. Engage customers, define roadmaps, validate concepts, and partner with engineering, AI/ML, and cloud teams to deliver automation, observability, predictive insights, and operational troubleshooting capabilities that simplify WLAN management and improve network resiliency.

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.

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.

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 and scale a strategic sales channel for an LTL logistics company, building high-performance sales teams, aligning commercial strategy with operations, driving growth through CRM and Power BI analytics, and executing aggressive performance and travel-heavy sales plans.