Top Remote Machine Learning Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Develop and productionize machine learning systems for search, retrieval, ranking, recommendations, conversational experiences, and AI agents. Own projects across the ML lifecycle, build evaluation datasets and benchmarks, conduct offline and online evaluations, analyze model quality, and improve system performance. Design scalable architectures addressing reliability, latency, privacy, and cost. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, communicate technical decisions, mentor engineers, and contribute to ML best practices.

Develop autonomy evaluation metrics, statistical and machine-learning analyses, dashboards, and pipelines for simulation and on-road autonomous vehicle testing. Analyze perception, prediction, and planning performance; identify anomalous behavior and critical scenarios; apply VLMs and LLMs where appropriate; and support release gating and safety decisions. The role requires production Python, C++ debugging, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and rigorous software engineering practices.

Build and operate Lakehouse data pipelines, product features, machine learning and generative AI components, testing, monitoring, instrumentation, and documentation. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business users to clarify requirements, deliver production solutions, investigate defects, and improve reliability and performance. Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and backlog-driven development while following engineering standards and contributing to scalable Data & AI products.

Design and develop machine-learning approaches for vehicle control, including learned vehicle dynamics models, adaptive controllers, data pipelines, evaluation metrics, and simulation tooling. Integrate learned models into safety-critical closed-loop systems and validate algorithms through offline experimentation, simulation, and on-vehicle testing. Collaborate with engineers and research scientists to combine classical control with AI for scalable self-driving technologies.

Build and deploy machine learning models on large healthcare datasets, extract actionable insights, develop scalable data processing systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and communicate findings to stakeholders to improve patient outcomes.

Design, develop, and evaluate large-scale multimodal foundation models for biological research. Build hybrid LLM and graph neural network architectures, relational foundation models, and distributed multi-GPU training systems. Apply deep learning theory to biological data, transition research prototypes into scalable production systems, publish peer-reviewed research, and mentor junior staff while collaborating across scientific and engineering teams.

Designs, develops, trains, tests, and deploys secure AI and machine learning solutions for enterprise and government environments. Responsibilities include preparing datasets, identifying automation opportunities, evaluating model performance and security, documenting risks and controls, and collaborating with data scientists, software developers, cybersecurity engineers, architects, and domain experts. The role applies AI and ML to enterprise security engineering, testing, and mission workflows.

Lead technical direction for Pinterest’s foundational machine learning capabilities in visual representation learning, multimodal content understanding, and LLM-based personalization. Drive initiatives from research and experimentation through productionization and adoption. Build reusable embeddings, models, semantic signals, and ML infrastructure using distributed training and data pipelines. Collaborate across product, engineering, data science, and applied science while mentoring technical teams and guiding multi-quarter roadmaps.

AI/ML Engineers will build and deploy AI-native products, autonomous agents, LLM applications, RAG systems, and production ML pipelines. Responsibilities may include integrating AI into crypto infrastructure and consumer products, fine-tuning and evaluating models, optimizing inference, and developing agentic workflows and machine-to-machine payment systems. Engineers will work end-to-end with high-ownership teams in fast-moving environments.

Own the end-to-end architecture, development, deployment, evaluation, and operations of AI and machine learning systems. Build predictive ordering models, agentic workflow copilots, retrieval and evaluation infrastructure, safety guardrails, and responsible AI practices. Prioritize AI initiatives based on business outcomes, establish model governance and production standards, advise product and engineering leadership, and mentor experienced contributors.

Lead the development and production deployment of applied machine learning and LLM solutions across product, marketing, and operations. Own ranking, recommendation, filtering, personalization, experimentation, and model evaluation systems. Partner with business and technical teams to identify valuable use cases, establish modeling best practices, and ensure reliable production deployment. Manage and mentor applied ML practitioners while maintaining technical rigor, business alignment, and measurable customer and revenue impact.

Lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of production AI and ML systems. Build high-throughput Python services and Databricks pipelines, support traditional ML and LLM applications, establish testing and deployment standards, and develop monitoring for quality, reliability, latency, throughput, and cost. Partner with product, research, and responsible AI teams on governance and release criteria. Provide architectural leadership, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and resolve complex technical dependencies.

Develop, implement, and deploy scalable machine learning models for healthcare solutions. Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate models, analyze data to improve performance, ensure data quality, and stay current with ML advancements to support patient care and operational efficiency.

Build and improve machine learning systems for ad ranking, relevance, personalization, and optimization. Responsibilities include feature pipelines, model training and evaluation, active learning, LLM-assisted labeling and synthetic data generation, experimentation, and low-latency production inference. The role partners with product, data, and platform teams to improve advertiser performance and user engagement while maintaining reliability, latency, and data quality.

Design, train, and deploy scalable ML models (generative, classification, regression). Define feature roadmaps, collaborate with engineering to implement code and APIs, adapt ML methods for distributed/GPU environments, and create evaluation/annotation programs for fine-tuning and performance measurement.

Build and operate production search, ranking, recommendation, and multimodal AI systems for a global jewellery marketplace. Own machine-learning models end to end, including feature development, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and low-latency serving. Develop contextual and conversational search, image-based retrieval, learning-to-rank systems, and embedding pipelines. Define ranking experiments, evaluate LLM behavior, and design graceful recovery from probabilistic failures across multi-tenant storefronts.

Develops and productionizes deep learning and machine learning perception models for robotics and recycling sortation. Responsibilities include experimenting with neural network architectures, designing computer vision solutions, conducting statistical experiments, deploying successful models, collaborating with data, modeling, and cloud infrastructure teams, and improving ML infrastructure.

Leads Lyra Health’s AI/ML engineering roadmap, scales and mentors machine learning teams, and drives production-grade systems for clinical applications. Responsibilities include people leadership, quarterly planning, technical architecture, design reviews, model governance, ML SDLC oversight, and deployment of reliable microservices on Kubernetes. The role partners with product, data science, and clinical stakeholders while ensuring safety, operational excellence, cloud scalability, and compliance for sensitive healthcare data.

Develop and productize deep learning perception systems for autonomous driving, including traffic signal, sign, road marking, and construction object understanding. Lead end-to-end model development, data-driven improvement, simulation, augmentation, and deployment to embedded platforms. Optimize solutions for accuracy, safety, latency, robustness, and regional generalization while collaborating with data-labeling teams and contributing technical leadership.

Leads Tala’s Machine Learning Engineering team in building and operating platforms for model development, real-time inference, streaming features, batch processing, deployment, monitoring, and production reliability. Manages and develops 4–6 engineers, owns delivery and prioritization, provides architectural leadership, improves engineering practices and SLOs, and partners with Data Science, Data Engineering, Product, Credit, and Business Development teams.

Set technical vision for Pinterest’s Product ML Infrastructure, leading distributed model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and high-scale CPU/GPU inference. Improve GPU efficiency, data loading, execution, kernels, memory, compilation, quantization, scheduling, and capacity. Build reliable, observable training and serving platforms, drive architecture decisions and migrations, partner with AI/ML teams, mentor senior engineers, and establish operational standards across the organization.

Build and deploy scalable AI and machine learning products for clinical research, including patient recruitment, enrollment forecasting, and study feasibility. Develop ML models, LLM-powered agents, data pipelines, and MLOps infrastructure using cloud services and CI/CD automation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI into clinical research workflows, monitor model performance, and advance reliable, unbiased solutions that improve patient outcomes.

Design and deploy production recommendation and retrieval engines, build data orchestration pipelines for multiple modalities, implement agentic workflow frameworks, and prototype, optimize, and scale models with monitoring, governance, and low-latency SLAs.

Leads the evaluation, design, development, and deployment of production AI/ML applications in AWS environments. Builds and optimizes machine learning models, assesses emerging technologies, presents technical recommendations, collaborates with federal clients, and mentors engineering teams. The role also supports cloud-native development, operations, security, enterprise AI adoption, and experimentation involving modern AI platforms and practices.

Leads and develops a perception and machine learning engineering team building computer vision, sensor fusion, tracking, detection, and scene-understanding capabilities for autonomous systems. Owns roadmap planning, technical decisions, delivery, model development and deployment workflows, field readiness, hiring, performance management, and cross-functional execution with autonomy, embedded, data, hardware, product, programs, and field operations teams.