Top Senior Data Science Jobs in Kansas City, MO

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lead end-to-end data science projects including predictive modeling, algorithm design, and data pipelines. Build campaign-focused models (turnout, partisanship), perform exploration and visualization, translate insights into memos/presentations, collaborate with engineering to productionize models, mentor junior data scientists, and prototype emerging AI solutions for product impact.

Design, build, and own large-scale data pipelines and ML data curation for multimodal (text, image, audio, video) model training. Partner with research teams to ingest, label, filter, augment, store, and ensure dataset quality, compliance, and scalability. Optimize distributed data processing for training, prototype dataset tools, and integrate research advances into production systems.

The Senior Data Scientist will lead innovative data science efforts, leveraging advanced analytics, visualization, and insights from complex datasets to boost productivity.

Build marketing data science models and decision systems for spend allocation, channel measurement, forecasting, experimentation, and growth optimization. Unify marketing, retail, revenue, and product data; develop dashboards and analytical products; apply AI/ML and causal inference; and translate complex analysis into actionable recommendations for executives and cross-functional teams. The role also includes improving data quality, mentoring, documentation, and technical leadership.

Design and implement advanced ML models for real-time forecasting and decision support, ensure data provenance and lineage, integrate federated geospatial and multi-format data, produce ROM and quarterly cost/resource reports, and apply Agile sprint practices to deliver mission-aligned analytics for DoD/IC customers.

Build, ship, and own end-to-end ML models for vendor matching, order routing, and supply-chain optimization. Partner with data engineering to productionize models, quantify impact, document work, and implement decision logic components toward agentic AI in a fast-moving healthcare startup environment.

Lead development of time-series and econometric models (ARIMA, VAR, state-space, WLS, panel data) and Bayesian probabilistic frameworks. Use causal inference and stochastic processes to produce actionable insights, work with large datasets on Databricks, communicate results to stakeholders, and mentor junior team members.

Lead advanced analytics and ML projects: perform EDA, feature engineering, statistical modeling, and build/optimize production ML and Generative AI solutions (LLMs, embeddings, RAG). Collaborate with engineering and MLOps to deploy and monitor models, create visualizations and dashboards, translate insights for stakeholders, and mentor junior team members.