Top Senior Data Science Jobs in Houston, TX

Leads the data science platform and machine learning strategy, building data marts, predictive models, MLOps infrastructure, and analytics capabilities. Analyzes healthcare claims, clinical, workflow, and operational data to risk-stratify patients, assess clinical program impact, support dashboards, and improve patient and provider engagement. Collaborates with clinical, operations, finance, product, executive, and technology teams while serving as a trusted analytics expert for a business workstream.

Lead product-focused data science and machine learning initiatives, including exploratory analysis, production model development, evaluation frameworks, generative AI, graph-based machine learning, recommendation systems, and personalization. Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to deliver high-impact solutions, influence strategy, and communicate insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders. The hybrid role requires four days per week in the Greater Boston area.

Own and deliver production machine learning workstreams for utility bill extraction, forecasting, and audit/anomaly detection. Build and evaluate models, establish technical approaches for ambiguous problems, write production-grade Python, and partner with engineering on integration and monitoring. The role also involves applying LLMs and agentic workflows, automating team processes, prioritizing investments, and communicating model behavior and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Lead end-to-end AI/ML initiatives to improve student retention, engagement, and enrollment. Architect and operate data pipelines, feature stores, and production ML systems; deploy, monitor, and automate models; run experimentation programing and measure business outcomes. Mentor team members and set technical standards across Product, Engineering, and CX.

Lead research and engineering of production-grade LLM/GenAI systems for cybersecurity: design models and architectures, drive data labeling and evaluation, collaborate with product and engineering to deploy scalable solutions, mentor data scientists, set technical strategy, and advance AI safety, red-teaming, and applied ML innovations for detection and operational use.

Lead performance marketing data science initiatives focused on lead segmentation, bidding optimization, targeting, and marketing spend allocation. Develop and deploy production-ready machine learning systems, establish research and ML operations roadmaps, build monitoring frameworks, and identify high-impact opportunities. Partner with engineering, marketing, vendors, and executives while mentoring data scientists and machine learning engineers and promoting rigorous, maintainable, and reproducible practices.

Lead data science for Mozilla’s advertising business by identifying high-impact opportunities, owning complex analyses, developing measurement and experimentation frameworks, analyzing revenue and performance, and translating findings into recommendations for technical partners and executives. Partner across Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and leadership to support business decisions in a fast-moving environment while balancing analytical rigor, pragmatism, and user privacy.

Lead data science partnership for Mozilla’s advertising business, identifying high-impact opportunities and owning complex analytics end to end. Develop measurement frameworks, experimentation strategies, instrumentation, and reporting for advertising products. Analyze revenue and performance, evaluate trade-offs, and communicate clear recommendations and uncertainty to technical teams and senior executives.

As a Staff Data Scientist at SentiLink, you will develop fraud detection models, conduct analyses, collaborate across teams, and drive the development of financial risk products.

Staff Data Scientist responsible for owning ambiguous, high-impact product and business problems; designing experiments; analyzing product data; developing analytical tools and frameworks; partnering with product, engineering, design, and leadership; and mentoring data scientists. The role requires advanced statistical expertise, strong product judgment, production programming experience, and the ability to translate complex analyses into strategic recommendations.

Conduct workforce analytics and applied organizational research on attrition, mobility, engagement, performance, and planning. Analyze and validate HR data using SQL, R, or Python; apply statistical testing and regression; translate business questions into actionable insights; and communicate findings through visualizations, reports, and presentations. Partner with HR stakeholders while maintaining the accuracy, documentation, confidentiality, and integrity of sensitive workforce data.

Develop and deploy machine learning algorithms that improve real-time device identification and fraud detection. Own data science projects from experimentation through production, including supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning, real-time inference, training automation, exploratory analysis, and model-to-service integration. Contribute to engineering best practices, collaborate within a global remote team, and participate in a shared on-call rotation.

Own applied statistical analysis for mineral processing operations, including experimental design, metric definitions, uncertainty quantification, process control, forecasting, reporting, and dashboards. Analyze messy sensor, assay, laboratory, and plant data to support production, cost, supplier, and capacity decisions. Partner with data platform teams, improve analytical rigor across the company, and communicate findings clearly to operators, engineers, and executives.

Lead data science projects from ideation through enterprise impact, building scalable and well-tested solutions that improve healthcare outcomes. Apply probability, statistics, machine learning, SQL, and Python to develop data-driven products and insights. Partner with stakeholders, assess product performance, identify strategic improvements, mitigate risks, and mentor teammates while aligning initiatives with business objectives.

Leads analytical and scientific strategy for Fetch’s Play and Rewarded Apps businesses. Develops predictive and machine learning models, experimentation frameworks, causal analyses, feature pipelines, and measurement systems using Python and SQL. Partners with Product, Marketing, Engineering, and business leaders to improve monetization, engagement, retention, personalization, and marketplace outcomes. Translates complex findings into strategic recommendations, mentors data scientists and analysts, and establishes analytical best practices.

The Lead Data Scientist will enhance analytics through predictive modeling and data engineering, focusing on quality, feature generation, and continuous learning.

Leads advanced analytics initiatives supporting strategic planning, equity tracking, forecasting, budgeting, staffing, and resource allocation. Builds predictive models, simulations, and decision-support tools using education and enterprise data. Presents insights to executive and board-level audiences, partners with academic, operational, and finance teams, maintains reproducible workflows and data governance compliance, collaborates on data quality, and mentors analysts.

Develop and migrate reporting assets from SAP BusinessObjects to QlikView and Qlik Sense. Analyze and rebuild Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and universes; debug legacy and new reports; optimize SQL, scripts, expressions, data models, and load processes; validate output accuracy; document migration logic; and collaborate with stakeholders on requirements and report specifications.

Lead development and productionization of telematics pricing and underwriting models. Responsibilities span statistical modeling, feature engineering, dataset and pipeline development, model deployment, monitoring, data quality validation, troubleshooting, regulatory support, and collaboration with pricing, actuarial, product, engineering, and compliance teams.

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.

Design, build, evaluate, and productionize agentic AI, LLM, RAG, and predictive ML systems for scientific information products. Develop training and inference pipelines, fine-tune models, establish trustworthy-AI evaluation and safeguards, and operate AI capabilities at scale. Set engineering standards, lead technical initiatives, mentor scientists and engineers, influence product and executive decisions, and communicate results through presentations, publications, and client engagements.

Tune AML and fraud detection models using customers’ live transaction data. Investigate missed cases, alert quality, pattern drift, and false positives; validate changes through backtesting and sample review; document regulatory rationale; and present model performance and business value to compliance, risk, and data science stakeholders. Partner with customer teams on account strategy and relay customer-specific or systemic findings to product and model functions.

Own mobile marketing analytics frameworks, dashboards, cohort and campaign analysis, profitability modeling, audience strategy, and incrementality experiments. Analyze attribution, retention, LTV, CAC, ROAS, payback, creative performance, and marketplace dynamics. Partner with marketing, finance, and leadership to guide spend allocation and growth decisions while navigating mobile privacy and attribution challenges.

Own sales forecasting and revenue analytics by developing statistical and machine learning models across products, regions, and time horizons. Lead the full machine learning lifecycle from feature engineering through deployment, monitoring, and explainability. Translate forecasts into business recommendations, deliver production data products, mentor junior data scientists, and provide technical leadership across analytics and sales teams.

Deploy machine learning solutions for enterprise Oil & Gas customers, benchmarking against existing models and delivering measurable ROI. Responsibilities include data engineering, feature engineering, validation, model optimization, data leakage prevention, and secure last-mile integrations across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. The role partners with customers, sales, research, product, and solution architecture teams while translating technical insights into business value and product roadmap priorities.