Top Data Science Jobs in Des Moines, IA

The Data Scientist II will oversee data management, design study protocols, train staff, lead report development, and manage client activities using project frameworks.

Lead the data science strategy for deployed humanoid robots: build predictive maintenance and reliability models, drive fleet performance and RaaS economics analysis, develop anomaly detection and RCA tooling, link manufacturing test data to field outcomes, and set instrumentation, experimentation, and data-quality standards across hardware, software, manufacturing, and operations.

Lead evaluation and data strategy for advanced AI, vision, and perception systems. Define metrics, build evaluation frameworks, audit artifacts, prioritize fixes, and translate model behavior into product decisions and data-improvement loops to ensure production readiness and downstream usefulness.

Design, build, and validate end-to-end ML models and AI/NLP solutions for pharmacy, claims, and clinical data. Responsibilities include feature engineering, explainability (SHAP), entity resolution, data quality, compliance-driven reporting, prototype front ends (Streamlit/BI), and collaboration with engineering, clinical, and client-success teams to productionize analytical outputs.

Provide analytics and data-driven insights for CoverMyMeds clients, prioritize work that drives commercial outcomes, build relationships with account teams, apply statistical and predictive methods, monitor portfolio health, deliver client-facing visuals and recommendations, support complex requests and escalations, and inform strategic decisions across product, analytics, and operations.

Own analysis and algorithmic solutions for ads delivery; train, deploy, and scale ML/optimization models into production; build logging, monitoring, and lineage; improve data pipelines; mentor data scientists; use agentic AI tools daily; collaborate with engineers to integrate models into ads systems and handle on-call production incidents.

Own the end-to-end analytical function for a core business area such as growth, product, AI and automation, or strategic partnerships. Define business problems, metrics, reports, analyses, and experiments; surface actionable insights; and influence product, growth, finance, and operations decisions. The role requires independently structuring ambiguous problems, using SQL or Python, communicating findings clearly, and driving measurable business outcomes.

Own end-to-end data science for a business unit across growth, product, AI and automation, or strategic partnerships. Define business questions, metrics, reports, analyses, and experiments; generate actionable insights; communicate recommendations; and drive decisions and measurable outcomes with cross-functional stakeholders.

This role involves analyzing EHR and insurance claims data to define clinical outcomes, developing AI models, and collaborating with technical experts for manuscript preparation.

Analyze microbiome and longitudinal clinical datasets, develop microbiome metrics and biomarkers using statistics and machine learning, create visualizations and reports, draft clinical research documents, support product and study development, and contribute to scientific publications and proposals.

Develop frameworks and tooling to estimate long-term impacts of product changes from short-term experiment outcomes. Build causal inference methods (experimental, econometric, quasi-experimental), evaluate heterogeneous treatment effects, own major estimation problems, and communicate results to technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive better long-term decisions.

End-to-end data scientist who analyzes messy SEO/AEO data, designs and runs experiments, implements fixes using internal tooling, ships improvements, and communicates decision-ready reports to clients while improving tools and processes.

Lead end-to-end data science for a priority vertical (Insurance), building, validating, and deploying ML models that drive ROAS and lead quality. Partner with stakeholders and ML engineering to monitor live performance, iterate models, and identify new modeling opportunities to improve revenue and media efficiency.

Design, develop, and evaluate conversational AI agents and generative AI products. Collaborate with AI scientists, ML engineers, and Responsible AI/Model Validation teams to ensure state-of-the-art, ethical solutions and support deployment and integration of conversational systems.

Lead analytical efforts in Real World Data research, develop specifications and methodologies, manage projects, and communicate findings to stakeholders.

The Senior Data Scientist will build frameworks for data-driven decision making, develop predictive models, ensure data quality, and enhance customer experiences through analytics and operational insights.

Develop and operationalize graph-based analytics for fraud detection and investigative analysis. Build graph models, apply graph algorithms and ML to detect anomalies, support entity resolution, create visualizations and dashboards, and collaborate with investigators and stakeholders to deploy and maintain production solutions.

The Lead Risk Analytics Data Scientist will develop risk pricing, design data models, automate workflows, and communicate insights to leadership. Responsibilities include owning the risk narrative, building analytics foundations, and utilizing AI to enhance efficiency.

The Data Scientist designs and builds data structures for AI applications, manages vector and feature stores, leads data discovery, and collaborates on responsible data use while ensuring high-quality, governed datasets for ML models and applications.

Embedded data scientist owning analytics for a business area (growth, product, AI, or partnerships). Define problems, build metrics and analyses, run experiments, surface insights, and drive recommendations to improve key metrics and outcomes.

Embedded data scientist working end-to-end with a business unit to define problems, build metrics, run analyses and experiments, surface insights, and drive data-informed product, growth, AI, and partnership outcomes.

Analyze microbiome and longitudinal clinical data, develop biomarkers and microbiome metrics using statistical and machine learning methods, and create visualizations, reports, protocols, and study reports. The role supports research, product development, scientific publications, proposals, and clinical studies while collaborating independently with microbiome experts in a remote-first startup environment.

Lead design and evolution of large-scale nodal power market models. Define mathematical approaches, develop optimization/forecasting methodologies (MILP, SCUC/SCED), collaborate with engineers to productionize models, work with product and customers to translate market problems into software, mentor data scientists, and guide long-term product strategy.

Develop and optimize machine learning and statistical models for fraud detection and anti-money laundering. Analyze large datasets to identify fraudulent patterns, build scalable data pipelines and features, evaluate model performance, and collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams. Communicate insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders while maintaining data privacy and security compliance. The role offers significant ownership in building Oscilar’s early machine learning stack within a remote-first startup.

Oversee development, validation, monitoring, and governance of consumer credit risk models used for loss forecasting, credit decisioning, regulatory reporting, and risk management. Apply statistical, econometric, and machine learning methods to PD, LGD, and EAD models; support CECL, stress testing, and macroeconomic scenario analysis. Assess model performance, data quality, and compliance while communicating findings to senior leaders, auditors, regulators, and other stakeholders.