Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design and deploy production-ready LLM pipelines and agentic workflows, automate large-scale multimodal dataset pipelines, monitor and improve agent performance, and integrate AI agents with 3D scene composition. The role also involves process documentation, incident response, and continuous improvement, with collaboration across the engine team and company founders.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Azure Storage geo-replication, data protection, failover orchestration, and business continuity. Drive cross-team delivery, operational excellence, telemetry, automation, AI-assisted operations, and represent the team in executive and customer engagements.

Leads supply forecasting across multiple regions and planning horizons, establishing forecasting processes, governance, metrics, technologies, and analytics capabilities. Partners with supply chain, sales, production, finance, and executives to identify risks, develop scenarios, improve service and inventory outcomes, and guide decisions. Builds a high-performing forecasting organization, drives transformation and standardization, and develops future-state planning capabilities using advanced analytics, machine learning, and forecasting technologies.

Leads commercial analytics and business intelligence strategy, including executive dashboards, account reporting, revenue and pricing analytics, operational KPIs, forecasting, segmentation, and predictive modeling. Partners with Sales, Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Product to improve revenue, profitability, customer retention, and marketplace performance. Presents insights to executives and customers while managing analytics teams, budgets, vendors, and BI scalability.

Analyze large datasets, identify meaningful patterns, develop machine learning models, and deliver actionable insights for business decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs, communicate findings clearly to stakeholders, and stay current with advances in data science and AI technologies.

Own the technical side of deal progression for airline deployments: qualify opportunities, run demos and POCs, author integration and deployment architectures (PSS, APIs, data feeds, DNS, identity, networking), respond to RFPs/security questionnaires, scope SOWs and NFRs, and build reusable demo/reference assets to drive adoption and expansion while liaising between sales, engineering, and customers.

Provides bioinformatics consultation, computational analysis, statistical support, and production pipeline development for HIV-related genomic and clinical research at NIAID. Responsibilities include sequence and gene expression analysis, variant calling, genome assembly, comparative genomics, proteomics, and epigenomic workflows. The role supports scientific programming, experimental design, data dissemination, scalable research resources, and publications. Candidates need expertise in programming, workflow frameworks, containerization, high-performance computing, and next-generation sequencing, with HIV research experience preferred.

Lead go-to-market strategy for Sprout Social’s AI portfolio, including the Trellis AI agent. Develop enterprise launch playbooks, positioning, executive messaging, campaigns, and enablement programs. Analyze market and competitive dynamics, influence product roadmaps, improve launch processes, and partner with Product, Sales, Revenue, Brand, and executive leadership to drive adoption, revenue growth, deal expansion, and category leadership. The role also mentors marketing team members and operates with substantial autonomy.

Leads technical direction for GitLab’s Core DevOps services, covering CI, CD, planning, and source control. Defines architecture, quality metrics, migration strategies, and technical roadmaps; addresses systemic risk and complex design decisions; prototypes and writes code when needed; partners with Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and Product; adopts AI capabilities; mentors senior engineers; supports incident response and senior technical hiring.

Own customer deployments of Sayari’s risk screening, graph analytics, investigation workflows, and data integrations. Responsibilities include technical scoping, production Python and SQL development, API integration, bulk data delivery, pipeline onboarding, dashboard creation, monitoring, troubleshooting, documentation, and feeding recurring customer needs back to engineering. The role requires client-facing communication, independent problem-solving, and collaboration across multiple customer accounts, with 25–30% travel and in-office time.

Designs and maintains automated, AI-enabled detection and response capabilities across enterprise security platforms. Integrates SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and threat intelligence technologies; analyzes security telemetry; develops and validates detection content and automation workflows; documents procedures and runbooks; and collaborates with SOC, threat intelligence, and incident response teams. The role also evaluates emerging security capabilities and supports continuous improvement of detection operations for a federal agency.

Paid, part-time Creative Advisor collaborating with AI research and machine learning teams. The role involves sharing creative expertise, defining quality standards, developing work, reviewing model outputs, identifying limitations, and helping fellow creators engage with the program. Applicants should be leading creators with strong portfolios and interest in shaping AI’s impact on creative practice; no AI experience is required.

Applies statistics, experimentation, data analysis, and machine learning to complex datasets and AI model evaluation. Designs analyses, develops and validates models, performs Python and Pandas data transformations, creates expert prompts and datasets, identifies quantitative errors, and provides structured feedback. Produces reproducible code, analytical reports, and clear documentation while collaborating with stakeholders and reviewing peer contributions.

Defines enterprise technology architecture, modernization roadmaps, governance standards, and cloud, infrastructure, networking, security, resilience, and AI strategies. Designs Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments; guides migrations, automation, identity, connectivity, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. Leads architecture reviews, evaluates vendors and emerging technologies, translates regulatory requirements into controls, and influences executives and cross-functional technical teams through implementation.

Owns the strategy, roadmap, development, and adoption of financial data products and APIs. Partners with data science and engineering to integrate predictive and machine-learning models into scalable, trustworthy capabilities. Defines quality metrics, requirements, documentation, and support models while ensuring privacy, security, regulatory compliance, and downstream adoption across consumer and business banking products.

Leads enterprise AI platform strategy, architecture, engineering, governance, and operations across machine learning, generative AI, agents, data, and business intelligence. Owns platform standards, reusable services, lifecycle management, security, compliance, reliability, vendor commitments, budgets, and consumption. Directs production-scale AI enablement, establishes responsible AI controls, and manages engineering teams, staffing, operating plans, and executive stakeholder alignment.

Own strategy and execution for integrated B2B marketing campaigns that drive enterprise pipeline, self-service growth, platform adoption, and category awareness. Coordinate ABM, content, paid media, events, lifecycle, social, partnerships, PR, and sales activation. Manage launches, optimize audiences and conversion paths, orchestrate teams and agencies, and measure impact across engagement, pipeline, acquisition, product adoption, and awareness.

Own ElevenLabs’ North American enterprise financial services sales motion across banking, insurance, lending, payments, and wealth. Define the ideal customer profile, sales methodology, pipeline and forecasting processes, land major enterprise accounts, and expand deployments. Build and lead the sales team, guide regulated buyers through risk, compliance, model-risk, architecture, and security reviews, and manage executive negotiations. Partner with engineering, product, marketing, and customer success to develop repeatable conversational AI sales strategies.

Combines wastewater process engineering with AI, machine learning, process modeling, digital twins, and optimization. Responsibilities include analyzing treatment data, developing biological and chemical process models, evaluating and troubleshooting facilities, conducting experiments, testing technologies, and implementing predictive or optimization solutions. The engineer collaborates with multidisciplinary project teams and utility clients to improve treatment performance, reliability, energy use, and operational decision-making. Python programming and wastewater modeling platforms are preferred, along with wastewater treatment, nutrient removal, data science, and technical communication expertise.

Develop data science solutions for payments across Square and Cash App. Build AI-powered tools, ETL pipelines, dashboards, machine learning models, experiments, and cloud data systems. Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations to improve payment success, cost efficiency, risk mitigation, and decision-making. Translate business needs into practical solutions, research questions independently, and operationalize data processes and infrastructure.

Drafts, reviews, and negotiates complex data, content, licensing, distribution, vendor, and supplier agreements. Advises internal teams on intellectual property, data and content rights, AI and machine learning use cases, privacy, regulatory compliance, and commercial disputes. Partners with Content, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Product teams; develops policies, playbooks, and project plans; monitors evolving AI and data regulations; and provides broader corporate legal support.

Provides advanced technical support for robotic systems during commissioning and 24/7 customer operations. Diagnoses hardware, software, controls, Linux, network, and automation failures; analyzes logs and telemetry; develops integrations and support workflows; leads major incidents; coordinates engineering, field service, and customer teams; manages cases and corrective actions; validates AI-assisted diagnostics; and mentors engineers while improving system reliability and recovery times.

Provides statistical leadership for Medical Affairs, real-world evidence, comparative effectiveness, HTA, and HEOR activities. Designs and analyzes observational, clinical, Phase IV, and indirect treatment comparison studies; evaluates data quality, bias, uncertainty, and applicability; supports evidence-generation strategies, reimbursement submissions, publications, and scientific communications. Collaborates with statistics, epidemiology, RWE, medical, and external scientific teams to translate complex analyses into actionable conclusions.

The Senior Business Development Representative will generate enterprise sales pipeline through account research, lead identification, outbound calls, emails, and social outreach. The role qualifies opportunities, maintains accurate Salesforce records, represents Rasa’s AI platform, collaborates with sales and marketing teams, and works toward exceeding quotas. This fully remote position requires strong communication, organization, customer empathy, autonomy, and comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment.

Own the strategy and roadmap for Constructor’s search quality and Product Discovery Engine. Drive measurable improvements in relevance, conversion, revenue per visit, and GMV across retail verticals. Partner with ML, data science, and engineering teams to productionize state-of-the-art retrieval, ranking, query understanding, personalization, and LLM capabilities. Establish evaluation frameworks, investigate quality issues, align multiple teams, and expand into chapter-wide product leadership.