Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Develop and deploy advanced ML solutions for OCR and NLP, optimizing models for performance and integrating them into production workflows while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design and improve ML training frameworks, modularize experiments, adapt fire-hazard detection algorithms for varied electrical environments, build scalable pipelines for high-frequency sensor data, and develop dashboards and tooling to monitor model performance and drift while collaborating across product, data science, and fire safety teams.

Lead a team of data scientists developing ML-driven products, managing infrastructure, training models, and ensuring production quality while collaborating with senior leadership.

The AI/ML Engineering Manager leads a team of ML engineers and architects, managing hiring, performance, and customer engagements while providing technical guidance in ML operations and architecture.

As an AI/ML Presales Solutions Architect, you will engage with clients to identify problems, create feasible AI solutions, and partner with sales to ensure project delivery aligns with capabilities. You will leverage your extensive experience in AI and cloud platforms to shape presentations and technical discussions with clients.

Build and maintain MLOps pipelines, deploy and monitor ML models as scalable services, transform and integrate healthcare data (FHIR/HL7), ensure reproducible feature management, and uphold HIPAA/HITRUST security for production ML in clinical systems.

Optimize and deploy multi-modal models (transformers, diffusion, VLMs) to run on-device across mobile and desktop. Own export, quantization, kernel tuning, runtime integration, and profiling to meet strict latency, memory, and power budgets. Build packaging, benchmarking, and telemetry; partner with research to productionize models and mentor junior engineers.

Design, build, and operate ML infrastructure for training, evaluation, deployment, and inference. Improve reliability, scalability, latency, throughput, and cost. Create pipelines, observability, benchmarking, and tooling to enable fast experimentation and productionization of models while diagnosing regressions and bottlenecks.

Design, evaluate, and productionize generative AI/ML solutions (RAG, agents, embeddings, retrieval). Build evaluation frameworks for hallucination detection, benchmark LLMs, optimize prompts/models, create datasets, fine-tune models, and collaborate to deploy and monitor enterprise-scale GenAI systems.

Lead development of scalable AI/ML capabilities for Mail Intelligence: build LLM- and ML-based personalization, data pipelines, tools, and observability. Mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, run A/B tests, implement feedback loops, and balance cost/quality/speed tradeoffs to deliver production-grade solutions.

Paid 3-month remote contract for students or recent grads to build and test LLM-based solutions using the Token Factory inference platform. Assist senior SAs with prompt engineering, model selection, benchmarking, and inference optimization. Run performance and quality experiments and contribute to internal tooling and automation. Mentorship provided; strong performers may be considered for full-time roles.

As a Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer, you'll finetune models, improve data quality, add new signals, and push solutions to production.

Lead the development of device intelligence and fingerprinting systems by designing backend services, collaborating on integrations, and applying advanced machine learning algorithms to enhance security and combat fraud.

Lead and grow the AI/ML Engineering team, manage core AI/ML platform development, ensure production-grade service operational excellence, and develop product strategies.

The Principal Machine Learning Engineer will fine-tune and optimize LLMs for various applications, develop AI products, and enhance ML infrastructure in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Build and productionize large-scale ML models and pipelines for query understanding and personalization. Work on autocomplete, query tagging/NER, query expansion, intent modeling, and LLM-powered natural-language search. Collaborate cross-functionally to design, deploy, and monitor batch and real-time systems, leveraging modern ML infrastructure and tooling to improve search relevance across Airbnb products.

Develop, fine-tune, and deploy LLMs for NLP tasks; design and maintain large-scale data pipelines; analyze time-series data; implement data-driven models and OCR systems; ensure data quality; collaborate cross-functionally; and research and apply best practices to improve internal data processing tools and infrastructure.

Build and productionize ML models and data infrastructure to analyze millions of chaos engineering experiments, detect and explain failures, recommend automated remediation, and integrate AI-driven failure analysis into Gremlin's product using techniques like causal inference, graph ML, time-series modeling, and reinforcement learning.

Lead architecture and technical strategy for Lyra's ML and generative AI platform. Design training, fine-tuning, and low-latency inference infrastructure (RAG, vector DBs), set ML/AI SDLC standards (dataset lineage, CI/CD, evaluation, monitoring), partner with cross-functional clinical and product teams, mentor senior engineers, deliver prototypes and critical code, and ensure secure, reliable production ML systems.

As a Machine Learning Engineer in Computer Vision, you'll develop AI solutions using advanced algorithms, focusing on image classification, segmentation, and video processing tools.

The Senior ML Engineer will automate component placement on PCBs, working on R&D and production using ML and optimization techniques.

As a Senior/Staff ML Systems Engineer at Quilter, you'll design and maintain ML infrastructure for automated PCB component placement, manage data pipelines, and lead systems design reviews while ensuring project efficiency and reliability within a fully distributed team.

The role involves managing the ML lifecycle, developing scalable ML systems, and collaborating on AI-first product solutions focusing on Large Quantitative Models.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, develop LLM evaluation frameworks and agentic AI workflows to extract insights from conversations and optimize customer experiences.

Build and expand in-database ML model catalog: implement new model types, ensure framework parity with scikit-learn/Spark ML, optimize training and inference at petabyte scale, extend SQL-level linear algebra, and collaborate across teams to deliver correct, performant ML features and documentation.