Top Senior Data Science Jobs in Houston, TX

Designs predictive models and machine learning algorithms for student outcomes, budgeting, staffing, resource planning, equity, absenteeism, enrollment, and special education trends. Integrates enterprise and external datasets, develops simulations and executive decision-support tools, and presents insights to nontechnical stakeholders. Partners with academic, operational, and finance teams, maintains reproducible workflows and data governance, collaborates on model-ready datasets, and mentors analysts.

Lead experimentation and decision science initiatives from problem definition through recommendations. Design and analyze A/B tests, quasi-experiments, matched-market tests, and causal inference studies. Apply advanced statistics, regression, predictive modeling, machine learning, and big-data analysis using Python, R, SQL, and PySpark. Partner with stakeholders, communicate actionable findings, build reproducible workflows, and mentor analysts and junior data scientists.

Build, validate, deploy, monitor, and maintain predictive models and analytical reports. Translate findings for technical and non-technical stakeholders, promote data literacy, deliver training, collaborate on data infrastructure, apply advanced statistical and machine learning methods, and support analytical requests across mental health and crisis care programs.

Senior individual contributor owning complex end-to-end ML problems for supply chain and consumer applications. Build and deploy predictive models (demand forecasting, delivery ETA, recommendations), embed with engineering teams, define MLOps standards, and advise leadership on data science strategy and investments.

The Data Scientist will analyze data to optimize products, drive business decisions, develop models and algorithms, and enhance customer experiences.

As the Staff Data Scientist, you will lead the data science function, driving strategy, mentoring peers, and shaping product direction through advanced analytics and experimentation.

Lead company-level measurement and causal strategy, define MAU×ARPU metrics and semantic mart, set scientific standards for experimentation and analysis, own strategic models (MMM, elasticity, forecasting), partner with engineering to productionize analytics, and raise org-wide scientific maturity through governance, templates, and upskilling.

Own and evolve revenue calibration models tying CX interactions to revenue, design causal inference and experimentation frameworks, build LLM-powered classification/NLP pipelines, productionize models with Analytics Engineers, define segmentation and behavioral signals, and ensure statistical rigor for executive reporting and regulatory defensibility.

The Staff Data Scientist will lead the development and deployment of ML and GenAI systems to detect billing errors and fraud in healthcare payments, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Build and productionize ML models and data infrastructure to analyze millions of chaos engineering experiments, detect and explain failures, recommend automated remediation, and integrate AI-driven failure analysis into Gremlin's product using techniques like causal inference, graph ML, time-series modeling, and reinforcement learning.

Design and deploy ML systems for enterprise search, recommendations, retrieval, and AI agents. Build scalable data/ML pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and metrics. Apply statistics, experimentation, and causal inference to guide product decisions. Collaborate cross-functionally, prototype LLM-based capabilities (embeddings, RAG), and mentor junior team members.

Lead design and deployment of ML systems for enterprise search, retrieval, recommendations, and AI agents. Build scalable data/ML pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and KPIs. Apply statistics, causal inference, experimentation, and analysis to guide product strategy. Prototype and productionize LLM-based features, mentor junior staff, and collaborate cross-functionally.

Build and deploy end-to-end ML models for renter acquisition, supply optimization, ranking, personalization, and marketplace optimization. Lead technical projects from problem framing through experimentation, launch, monitoring, and iteration. Apply statistical methods, causal inference, and rigorous A/B testing. Partner cross-functionally, mentor other data scientists, and raise modeling and experimentation standards.

Develop and deploy deep learning models and petabyte-scale multimodal data curation pipelines for foundation-model training. Responsibilities include document extraction, OCR, layout and table analysis, deduplication, distributed processing, dataset and metric development, experimentation, production scaling, and deployment through NVIDIA Inference Microservices. The role also involves publishing research, creating technical documentation, communicating findings, and mentoring team members.

Build production AI retrieval and knowledge systems for rare disease research at NIH. Model biomedical ontologies in PostgreSQL, develop semantic search, retrieval-augmented services, ranking, evaluation, and observability, and deliver user interfaces with Next.js, React, and TypeScript. Deploy and operate services in on-premises and HPC Kubernetes environments, including GPU inference. Collaborate with NIH staff, clinicians, and researchers, and contribute to scientific publications.

Build and operate agentic AI systems for rare disease research, including multi-turn workflows, structured and validated outputs, tool calling, prompt testing, evaluation suites, asynchronous execution, streaming, observability, and failure handling. Collaborate with NIH staff, clinicians, geneticists, researchers, and patient communities to translate needs into reliable data models and system behavior. Own components through deployment, establish AI engineering standards, and contribute to scientific manuscripts, abstracts, and conference posters.

Develop and tune ML models, productionize and deploy strategies for ML systems, and align cross-functionally to communicate performance metrics.

Lead end-to-end machine learning and advanced analytics projects: frame problems, build and deploy predictive/prescriptive models, design ETL pipelines, create dashboards and A/B test metrics, and deliver actionable insights to business stakeholders to improve fleet, pricing, and ridesharing products.

Lead end-to-end development of fraud and risk ML systems: define problems, engineer features, build and evaluate models, collaborate with product and engineering, deploy with ML engineers, and monitor production performance to detect drift and trigger retraining.

Design, build, and validate agentic AI systems and multi-agent workflows for financial use cases. Lead cross-functional teams to productionize models, create evaluation frameworks and gold-standard datasets, develop reusable agent patterns and prompts, integrate AI into services, and implement systematic testing to meet compliance and reliability standards.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will lead initiatives to build and optimize machine learning models, collaborate across departments, and solve complex business problems using data.

As a Data Scientist, you will build predictive models, develop software tools, and analyze geoscientific data to support mineral exploration and discovery.

As a Data Scientist, you will develop predictive models, analyze geoscientific data, and collaborate with geoscientists to improve mineral exploration efforts.

Owns the end-to-end development of cybersecurity vulnerability and exploit prediction models, including problem framing, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, calibration, monitoring, and drift detection. The role addresses extreme class imbalance, hierarchical modeling, cold-start customers, and uncertainty quantification. It also requires explaining model outputs to security executives, publishing methodologies and benchmarks, and partnering with engineering to deploy reliable production systems.

Own end-to-end data science for a priority vertical (starting with Insurance): frame business problems, build and validate models, partner with ML engineering for deployment, monitor live ROAS performance, and drive measurable revenue and lead quality improvements.