Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

Develop data tools, AI automations, ETL pipelines, dashboards, and machine learning models for payments. Analyze experiments, optimize payment performance and costs, mitigate risk, maintain data systems and cloud infrastructure, and translate business needs into actionable solutions while partnering with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations.

Owns operations for Optain’s nationwide network of contracted optometrists and ophthalmologists. Responsibilities include creating provider policies and SOPs, running quality and performance programs, modeling capacity, managing recruitment, handling complaints and urgent findings workflows, and preparing governance decisions for the Medical Director. The role partners with Product and Engineering to automate network processes and requires experience in healthcare operations, clinician networks, clinical quality, credentialing, and multistate licensing.

The AI Engineer will build data pipelines and improve ML systems for reliability in production. Responsibilities include schema design, data infrastructure, and model evaluation, ensuring high-quality outputs and integration with product workflows.

Lead the technical direction of Quora’s recommendation ecosystem, including feed retrieval, ranking, re-ranking, optimization, data pipelines, feature engineering, model training, and production integration. Drive measurable improvements through experimentation, apply generative AI, mentor engineers, and partner across product, data science, and infrastructure teams.

Leads delivery of large-scale AWS and digital transformation programs, overseeing planning, execution, reporting, risk mitigation, quality, and customer outcomes. Manages multi-functional teams of business analysts and engineers, develops product and service roadmaps, drives continuous improvement, and resolves customer issues. The role also involves people management, recruiting, coaching, business development, stakeholder communication, and aligning program portfolios with organizational strategy.

Manage a portfolio of advertisers on the Adflow commerce media platform, building relationships, monitoring budgets and campaign performance, presenting business reviews, coordinating onboarding, recommending optimization strategies, and identifying revenue-growth opportunities. The role serves as the primary client contact, collaborates with internal campaign, media operations, creative, and finance teams, and uses performance marketing expertise and analytics to drive advertiser success and long-term partnerships.

Manage a portfolio of advertisers on the Adflow commerce media platform. Responsibilities include client onboarding, campaign coordination, budget and revenue pacing, performance reporting, business reviews, strategic recommendations, optimization feedback, and identifying opportunities to grow advertising spend and channel distribution. The role serves as the primary client contact while collaborating with business development, campaign strategy, creative, media operations, and finance teams.

Leads global Customer Success for enterprise cybersecurity SaaS customers, owning onboarding, adoption, retention, renewals, expansion, advocacy, and customer satisfaction. Develops scalable CS strategies, support processes, KPIs, AI-driven workflows, adoption programs, and executive engagement frameworks. Partners with Sales, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Marketing while managing teams across the US and India. Drives GRR, NRR, product adoption, customer value realization, and referenceability.

Develop marketplace intelligence, forecasting, ranking, recommendation, personalization, and experimentation models for Airbnb’s search and marketplace products. Partner with product and engineering teams to launch AI-driven improvements, build scalable modeling pipelines, evaluate product changes, and guide technical direction. The role requires causal inference, machine learning, strong SQL and Python or R skills, cross-functional communication, and autonomous leadership of data science roadmaps.

Develop machine learning and statistical models to identify, measure, and manage credit and fraud risk. Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions, analyze large application and transaction datasets, deploy end-to-end models, and improve risk decision-making. The role requires advanced Python or R and SQL skills, expertise in fraud and underwriting models, model deployment, statistical methods, and mentoring junior data scientists.

Leads marketing and sales analytics strategy, architecture, and measurement. Builds data models, pipelines, machine learning datasets, attribution and incrementality models, and revenue-performance analyses. Advises leaders on investments, tools, account prioritization, and funnel economics. Establishes data, metric, testing, and privacy standards; partners with Marketing, Sales, Finance, Revenue Operations, Data Engineering, and IT; plans roadmaps; presents recommendations to executives; and mentors analysts and engineers.

Own product outcomes for an AI-native cloud infrastructure platform. Conduct customer discovery, frame problems, prioritize opportunities, prototype solutions, analyze product and business data, and collaborate with Design, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing. The role requires enterprise B2B product judgment, technical fluency across cloud infrastructure and FinOps, strong commercial awareness, AI-assisted workflows, outcome measurement, and end-to-end ownership from strategy through iteration.