Top Data Science Jobs in Buffalo, NY

Build and deploy statistical and machine learning models for the Toast platform. Collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to identify opportunities, develop data-driven solutions, evaluate models, and communicate insights to stakeholders. Work in a fast-paced environment and contribute to production ML systems and experimentation.

Leads teams in designing and deploying scalable AI and machine learning solutions for consulting clients. Responsibilities include data wrangling, complex analysis, data modeling, AI system implementation, data pipeline and infrastructure oversight, deep learning, neural networks, data quality validation, and stakeholder collaboration. The manager coaches team members, manages performance, supports innovation, and applies Python, Java, and cloud technologies to build production-ready AI applications.

Own the reliability and quality of an AI copilot for trading platforms. Build evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, quality gates, monitoring, incident response, and model improvement loops. Partner with engineering and product on safe tool interactions, auditability, and user trust. Develop trading-domain expertise and measurement systems covering correctness, safety, latency, regression risk, and workflow performance.

Leads the design, development, and deployment of scalable AI, generative AI, and machine learning solutions. Oversees data infrastructure, integration, data quality, and advanced analytics while managing client engagements and executive relationships. Drives business development, strategic direction, innovation, and AI-driven automation. Mentors teams, develops future leaders, and fosters collaboration, integrity, and client satisfaction across complex projects.

Lead complex modeling projects combining deep learning, LLMs, and traditional techniques. Prototype, deploy, and monitor production models, mentor data scientists, collaborate with engineering/product, and translate results into business impact for insurance customers.

Build and deploy predictive models for automotive lending, including lender approval and rate predictions. Own data pipelines from dealer systems, CRMs, credit bureaus, and providers into Redshift, maintain lender rules and rate tables, monitor model performance, and develop data-driven product features. Collaborate with sales, customer success, dealerships, and engineering while identifying business problems, prioritizing solutions, and shipping prototypes, analyses, dashboards, and full-stack features using AI-assisted development.

Develop predictive models and simulation workflows for CHO cell culture and upstream bioprocess digital twins. Analyze time-series bioreactor, assay, spent media, and process metadata datasets using Python and scientific computing tools. Build and evaluate mechanistic, statistical, machine learning, and hybrid models covering nutrient consumption, metabolite accumulation, cell growth, viability, and productivity. Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and software developers to document assumptions, communicate results, and support experimental planning.

Designs, builds, evaluates, and deploys machine learning, LLM, and agentic AI capabilities for cybersecurity detection, investigation, and response. Analyzes complex security data, develops models and evaluation frameworks, creates RAG and retrieval workflows, and partners with engineering teams to productionize and monitor AI systems. The role requires addressing adversarial, noisy data and balancing accuracy, explainability, latency, reliability, and operational impact.

Build and deploy statistical and machine-learning models for forecasting, risk prediction, retention, no-show prediction, experimentation, causal inference, and clinical outcomes. Partner with analytics engineering and technology teams to productionize models using monitored data pipelines. Translate ambiguous clinical and operational questions into rigorous analyses, communicate recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders, and establish data science and responsible AI practices.

Develop fraud detection and identity-risk machine learning models from problem definition through production deployment. Responsibilities include investigating fraud patterns, exploratory analysis, feature engineering, model training and evaluation, production-quality Python and PySpark development, monitoring model and feature drift, and presenting analytical recommendations. The role requires collaboration with data scientists and engineers while addressing privacy, explainability, validation, governance, and real-world fraud-modeling challenges such as class imbalance and delayed labels.

Develop and evaluate foundational deep learning methods, including transformers, embeddings, and neural networks, for credit modeling and loss prediction. Integrate models into ML pipelines, apply representation learning to financial data, and build specialized AI agents for data science and business workflows. Collaborate with technical and product teams, communicate findings, mentor colleagues, and measure model impact on customer and business outcomes.

Analyze modeled outputs and research data to produce automated reporting, visualizations, statistical insights, and actionable guidance for political strategists and clients. Build analytics pipelines, conduct regression-based analysis, monitor research returns, identify data quality issues, and collaborate with engineers, machine learning scientists, statisticians, and political experts.

Develop and refine credit risk strategies, rules, monitoring tools, and performance dashboards. Use SQL, Python, statistics, and data science to analyze complex datasets, identify risk trends, optimize processes, and influence business decisions. Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to implement strategies across the customer lifecycle, while mentoring junior team members.

Evaluate AI model outputs on data science, statistics, machine learning, experimentation, and quantitative reasoning problems. Create expert prompts, datasets, and reference solutions; identify statistical and methodological errors; and provide structured feedback to improve model performance. The role requires Python, machine learning, statistics, data analysis, experimentation, Pandas, and data modeling expertise.

Lead the design, development, deployment, monitoring, and improvement of interconnected customer lifetime value models covering conversion, retention, premiums, and claim losses. Serve as a hands-on technical leader, guide modeling strategy, evaluate experiments and business impact, partner with engineering and business teams, support production ML systems, establish technical standards, and coach other data scientists.

Evaluate AI model outputs on data science, statistics, machine learning, experimentation, and quantitative problems. Develop expert prompts, datasets, and reference solutions; identify statistical and methodological errors; and provide structured feedback to improve model performance. The role requires Python, machine learning, statistics, data analysis, experimentation, Pandas, and data modeling skills.

Create reproducible data science and machine learning tasks with verified reference solutions, robust tests, and evaluation criteria. Investigate coding-agent failures, identify implementation errors and data leakage, refine task designs, and document requirements and verification steps. The role requires competitive data science experience, mathematical reasoning, programming ability, and practical expertise in implementing and validating solutions.

Build and validate forecasting, optimization, anomaly detection, and measurement models using complex customer data. Perform exploratory analysis, experiments, backtesting, and error analysis; partner with ML and data engineers to productionize models, features, evaluation pipelines, and monitoring. Translate business questions into analytical recommendations and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders. The role is hybrid in New York City or remote in the U.S. with monthly travel to New York.

Develop data-driven solutions to complex real-world problems using data science, machine learning, statistical modeling, and analytical reasoning. Candidates should currently work in a technical data science or machine learning role at a leading technology company, hold a quantitative undergraduate degree from a top-ranked university, and reside and work in an eligible English-speaking country.

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.

Conducts multi-omics analyses of organoid and normal tissue data, including single-cell and bulk RNA sequencing, proteomics, and metabolomics. Develops computational pipelines for processing, quality control, statistical analysis, and organoid benchmarking. Collaborates with wet-lab teams on experimental design and protocol optimization, interprets findings, contributes to manuscripts, and presents research at scientific conferences.

Develop data pipelines, organize and analyze structured and unstructured government data, create visualizations, build AI agents and lightweight automations, and occasionally develop predictive models. The role involves consulting with senior stakeholders, communicating actionable insights, supporting data capacity building, and collaborating with product, design, engineering, and research teams in a remote government-services environment.

Own the reliability and quality of an AI copilot for a trading platform. Build evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, quality gates, monitoring, incident response, and model improvement workflows. Partner with engineering and product to create safe, auditable tool interactions and improve assistant behavior. Develop domain expertise in trading, risk, margin, execution, and portfolio reasoning while operating across model, backend, and frontend systems.

Analyze recruiting and interview data to improve AI-powered candidate evaluation systems. Build metrics, statistical and machine learning models, LLM evaluation datasets, experiments, dashboards, and reproducible data workflows. Collaborate with product and engineering teams on candidate matching, interview quality, recruiting analytics, bias detection, and AI system improvements.

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.