Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Data Scientist, you will build predictive models, develop software tools, and analyze geoscientific data to support mineral exploration and discovery.

The Data Scientist will develop predictive models, analyze geophysical data, and collaborate with geoscientists to enhance exploration programs, focusing on mineral deposits.

The Machine Learning Engineer will develop editable visuals combining computer vision and machine learning, enabling chat-driven figure editing and leveraging biological understanding to produce accurate visuals.

AVIA seeks experts in Digital Health and AI for advisory roles to support healthcare systems' technological transformations as part-time, project-based consultants.

Lead and grow a small ML engineering team while staying hands-on: design and ship GenAI features, build agentic LLM systems (NER, classification, retrieval, summarization), partner with PM and engineering, scope ambiguous problems, and reduce COGS through ML automation.

Design, operate, and scale ML data and training pipelines for autonomous driving. Build distributed training, orchestration, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code; maintain data/metadata stores and tooling to support large-scale model training and evaluation across cloud and cluster environments.

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will build and own production ML systems, manage end-to-end workflow, debug issues, and mentor others.

The Senior Databricks AI/ML Engineer will design and deploy AI/ML solutions in the insurance sector, focusing on Databricks architecture, data pipelines, and MLOps workflows, while collaborating with various teams to operationalize models and optimize processes.

As a Python and Kubernetes Software Engineer, you will develop data analytics solutions using open source tools, collaborating with a distributed team.

Design, deploy, and scale low-latency inference infrastructure for generative audio models (TTS, ASR, voice conversion). Build high-performance inference engines, Kubernetes-based autoscaling, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and GPU optimization to bridge research and production for streaming and batch workloads.

Develop AI-powered solutions for personalized content and marketing. Collaborate with teams to optimize ML models and pipelines at scale, mentoring engineers and driving strategic growth initiatives.

The Machine Learning Engineer will design, build, evaluate, and deploy ML systems, collaborating on projects in safety, security, and intelligence applications, while owning projects from initial research through to production.

Define and execute predictive modeling and ML strategy for credit risk, servicing, and collections. Lead cross-functional initiatives, oversee model development, deployment, and monitoring, advise senior leadership on data strategy, represent analytics in regulatory and audit forums, and mentor peers while fostering organizational partnerships.

Lead end-to-end design, delivery, and lifecycle management of production AI/ML solutions for strategic clients. Translate business requirements into scalable, secure ML architectures, drive deployments, monitoring, governance, and mentor teams while collaborating with stakeholders across sales, engineering, and data science.

Leads the technical direction of an autonomous vehicle perception stack. Responsibilities include architecting scalable perception systems, developing scene detection and runtime activation, improving robustness against sensor degradation and adverse weather, integrating multimodal models, managing ML and data pipelines, monitoring field performance, leading testing and feature delivery, and mentoring engineers. Requires strong robotics, computer vision, machine learning, real-time systems, software architecture, and team leadership experience.

Design and scale machine learning infrastructure for personalization, search, ranking, advertising technology, and real-time learning at consumer scale. Build distributed systems, data pipelines, feature infrastructure, model-serving systems, and low-latency decision systems. Lead architecture and zero-to-one initiatives, partner across product and engineering teams, mentor technical leaders, improve experimentation velocity, and explore LLM applications for personalization and conversational search.

Design, build, and deploy machine learning models for a payments platform, overseeing end-to-end solutions and experimentation, while monitoring models in production.

The job involves building responsive web dashboards, advanced data visualizations, and analytics tools for unmanned aircraft systems, requiring a deep understanding of UI/UX design and data presentation.

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will fine-tune transformer models, deploy machine learning solutions, and work with cross-functional teams on innovative projects.

Integrate LLMs, RAG, and agentic-AI into secure decision-support software. Design prompts and inference workflows, connect AI to backend services, evaluate outputs, build tests, document designs, and collaborate with engineering, security, and DevSecOps teams to deliver reliable mission-capable AI features.

Lead a team of ML engineers to design, build, and productionize LLM/GenAI and agentic systems (retrieval, tool use, orchestration). Collaborate cross-functionally with MLOps, product, and data science, review code, mentor engineers, run technical evaluations and proofs-of-concept, and ensure reliable, safe ML deployments for a large SaaS product.

The Staff ML/AI Platform Engineer will design, prototype and deploy AI/ML models, optimize pipelines, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate closely with other teams to develop machine learning solutions.

Design, develop, and deploy machine learning and deep learning models; build end-to-end ML pipelines including preprocessing, training, evaluation, and deployment; perform feature engineering on large datasets; deploy and monitor models on cloud platforms; collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions and retrain models as needed.

Design, build, and deploy production-grade generative AI applications: orchestrate multi-agent systems, implement advanced RAG with vector DBs, fine-tune and host LLMs, optimize GenAI workflows, and deliver scalable FastAPI-based backend services with Docker and monitoring.

Design, build, and scale production Generative AI systems: multi-agent orchestration, advanced RAG with vector databases, LLM integration and fine-tuning, scalable FastAPI backends, Dockerized deployment, monitoring, and GenAI optimization for latency, cost, and reliability.