Top Machine Learning Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead delivery of medium- and large-scale AWS programs, overseeing planning, assurance, reporting, risk mitigation, program health, and customer outcomes. Manage multi-year product and service roadmaps, identify business opportunities, resolve customer issues, and drive continuous process improvement. Lead, recruit, coach, and develop business analysts and engineers while collaborating with technical and business leaders across global enterprise clients.

Develop machine learning and AI models using clinical, claims, and social determinants of health data to improve pediatric patient outcomes. Partner with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to define requirements, optimize data collection, build data assets, conduct exploratory analysis, and deliver strategic and patient-care insights. Query Snowflake independently and present findings to nontechnical staff.

Develop, test, maintain, and improve software solutions using established development practices. Write clean code, assist with feature implementation, debug issues, and collaborate remotely with team members. Support AI technology integration, automation, and AI-powered development workflows. Research emerging AI tools, document technical processes, and continuously develop programming skills.

Lead cross-functional compiler software programs from concept to delivery, coordinating global teams, tracking risks and schedules, and improving development processes. Present status to executives, drive Agile and Waterfall projects, resolve technical/resource conflicts, and implement process and tool automation to ensure timely product releases.

Own lifecycle marketing performance across patient onboarding, activation, early care, and retention. Design and analyze multichannel experiments, build reporting and dashboards, write SQL, diagnose funnel and segment performance, and integrate AI and machine learning signals into lifecycle journeys. Collaborate with Product, Operations, Data Engineering, Marketing Operations, Analytics, and Creative to improve patient outcomes and measurable business performance.

Leads product strategy, roadmap development, prioritization, product metrics, and go-to-market execution for a marketing planning and analytics platform. Manages and coaches product managers while acting as an individual contributor on key initiatives. Partners with the CEO, engineering, sales, marketing, and leadership teams to deliver API-based, data-heavy statistical and machine learning products for technical B2B SaaS customers.

Leads enterprise cybersecurity architecture for AI, cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Designs secure AI architectures, cloud foundational controls, zero-trust identity models, API and data protections, and secure LLM, RAG, agent, and MCP integrations. Establishes governance, reusable security patterns, model-usage procedures, compliance controls, and audit readiness across AWS and Azure. Advises executives and technical teams, mentors security professionals, and drives secure cloud migrations while addressing AI/ML risks such as adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data drift, bias, and data leakage.

Lead and develop a team of partnership analysts; translate business questions into analytical frameworks, experiments, forecasts, and ROI models. Build dashboards and reporting infrastructure, analyze cohorts, funnels, retention, and partner performance, and own measurement frameworks for growth initiatives. Partner with Business Development, Engineering, Product, and Marketing to shape partnership strategy and communicate data-driven insights to technical and non-technical leaders.

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.

Manage and grow NVIDIA partner relationships in Manufacturing and Automotive: develop business plans, drive ecosystem enablement, increase adoption of NVIDIA AI solutions, maintain executive relationships, and present results in QBRs.

PhD-level 24-week internship to research Gaussian Splatting for streaming: explore compression strategies and datasets, quantify size/time/quality trade-offs, reduce training/encoding time, and build a proof-of-concept GS-based renderer.

Design and build large-scale ad tech systems across inventory, serving, measurement, forecasting, identity, and campaign management. Drive architecture, set technical direction, collaborate with ad operations and cross-functional partners, and deliver high-performance, privacy-safe cloud services and data pipelines for Netflix Ads.

Design, build, and productionize low-latency ML models and inference infrastructure for ad serving, inventory forecasting, yield optimization, bidding and allocation. Handle massive data with Spark, build scalable simulation systems, collaborate with product, science, and engineering to deploy models at scale, and ensure advertiser outcomes and member experience across client and server integrations.

Build and operate large-scale Ads Identity Graph and Identity Resolution systems (deterministic and probabilistic) in batch and near-real-time. Integrate identifier collection flows, DSPs, programmatic platforms, and data clean rooms while enforcing privacy, consent, and data governance. Handle extremely large datasets with big-data tools like Spark and design high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems. Collaborate cross-functionally on ad-targeting, measurement, and privacy-preserving solutions.

Design, implement, and deploy large-scale machine learning and optimization algorithms for ad ranking. Build and evaluate models, create online/offline evaluation frameworks, partner with product to define objectives and constraints, and communicate results to stakeholders to drive ad quality and performance.

Lead personalization product strategy and execution, partnering with ML scientists, engineers, designers, and research to improve recommendations. Define roadmap, prioritize experiments and evals, deliver consumer-facing ML products, and drive business impact across cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and evaluate large-scale ML-driven bidding algorithms for ad optimization (clicks, conversions, CPA, ROAS). Develop online/offline evaluation frameworks, inform auction/pricing design, partner with product, and communicate results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Lead a team of ML engineers and researchers to build next-generation content personalization and recommendation algorithms across movies, games, and live events. Define vision and strategy, drive projects end-to-end from research to production and A/B tests, collaborate cross-functionally, hire and mentor, and improve systems using transfer learning, ranking, bandits, and deep learning.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, secure Java backend services and APIs. Ensure reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across microservices, databases, messaging systems, and capacity planning. Troubleshoot, profile, benchmark, and optimize systems (including ML applications) and collaborate with Kazakhstan stakeholders.

Design, develop, and validate functionally safe software for robotic perception systems. Build safety-critical architecture across Linux and real-time operating systems, create testing and validation frameworks for edge cases, collaborate with machine learning, hardware, and core software teams, and mentor junior engineers on safety-critical coding practices.

Leads pre-sales consulting for strategic Big Tech and AI customers, including discovery, solution design, demonstrations, architecture discussions, proof-of-concepts, executive presentations, and technical sales deliverables. Partners with Sales, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and post-sales teams to address identity, fraud, risk, compliance, and data requirements. Translates complex technical and analytical concepts into business recommendations, develops technical win strategies, mentors teammates, and ensures effective implementation handoffs.

Drive MSSP partner growth across AMER by recruiting, onboarding, activating, and expanding strategic managed security service provider relationships. Develop territory recruitment plans, executive partnerships, joint business plans, and indirect routes to market. Help partners launch managed security services, generate pipeline, increase revenue, and accelerate time-to-revenue. Collaborate with sales, channel, marketing, services, and technical teams while managing forecasts, opportunities, executive reviews, and revenue objectives.

Develop and deploy mineral exploration instruments, sensor systems, data acquisition methods, and proprietary software. Integrate geospatial, geophysical, geochemical, geological, and geographic data; build statistically rigorous and physics-based models; identify ore-forming anomalies; and generate 2D and 3D exploration predictions. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, geoscientists, vendors, and external partners to design field programs, deploy sensors, reduce uncertainty, and guide exploration decisions.

The Machine Learning Engineer will build data-intensive products, deploy ML models, analyze datasets, and collaborate with product teams to enhance Nextdoor's platform.

Develop and operate machine learning systems for automated manufacturing. Responsibilities include building scalable data and model infrastructure, automating ML pipelines, deploying models to production and edge devices, monitoring performance, optimizing latency, integrating AI/ML tools, managing incidents, ensuring security and privacy, and collaborating with automation engineers, data scientists, data engineers, and software teams.