Top Remote Data Science Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Leads complex machine learning and advanced analytics initiatives for customer intelligence, segmentation, propensity scoring, behavioral prediction, and personalized engagement. Owns models through the full lifecycle, from problem framing and feature engineering to deployment, monitoring, retraining, and interpretation. Partners with product, engineering, MLOps, and data teams; defines evaluation metrics; mentors technical contributors; promotes responsible AI practices; and communicates results to technical leaders, clients, and business stakeholders.

Design, develop, and deploy NLP and LLM-powered models to extract intent, outcomes, and sentiment from calls, chats, and digital interactions. Translate unstructured interactions into actionable insights, build evaluation frameworks, debug and improve model performance, and hand off production-ready artifacts to data engineering to improve call center efficiency and customer experience.

Build, validate, deploy, and monitor machine learning models for customer segmentation, propensity scoring, and behavioral prediction. Own data exploration, feature engineering, and validation for assigned projects while collaborating with senior data scientists, MLOps, product, engineering, and data teams. Translate model outputs into client insights, document work for stakeholders and compliance review, and contribute to evaluation frameworks, dashboards, code reviews, and technical learning.

Build, optimize, and deploy machine learning models (especially time series) using Python, PySpark, and cloud tools. Perform feature engineering, evaluate model performance (MAPE, RMSE, R²), and create ETL/data pipelines with integration tools. Work with Palantir Foundry, Google Cloud (BigQuery, Vertex AI), AutoAI, and data warehouses to support large-scale analytics. Collaborate with stakeholders, monitor production models, and continuously improve model accuracy and pipelines.

Lead and deliver end-to-end data science projects: design, build, deploy, and monitor ML/statistical models for credit risk, pricing, collections, and fraud. Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate models into production, set model development standards, mentor engineers, and maintain reliable ML pipelines and monitoring systems.

Analyze and characterize conversational audio data, identify underrepresented areas, and build active-learning and human-in-the-loop workflows. Develop representative benchmarks, automate model adaptation, and create reusable data analysis and scoring systems. Partner with research, engineering, and data teams to run experiments, improve models, organize data, and translate complex findings into measurable product improvements.

Leads advanced data analysis to guide product and business decisions, develops metrics, dashboards, data products, and AI-enabled reporting systems, and translates findings into strategic recommendations. Partners with data engineers on dimensional data models, data governance, and quality controls. Mentors analysts, aligns roadmaps with business priorities, improves problem framing, and communicates insights effectively to technical and business stakeholders.

Lead high-impact modeling initiatives using deep learning, LLMs, and traditional methods. Prototype, deploy, and monitor hybrid models on large insurance datasets, drive MLOps standards, and communicate results to nontechnical stakeholders to realize business impact.

Lead end-to-end development and deployment of predictive and hybrid deep learning/LLM models for insurance use cases. Prototype, validate, and productionize models using modern ML frameworks and MLOps, collaborate with product and engineering, and communicate technical results to stakeholders to drive measurable business impact.

Lead and deliver productionized ML solutions across audience, marketing, pharma direct, and employer analytics. Design segmentation, propensity, attribution, and identity models; apply causal inference and experimentation; operationalize models with MLOps; evaluate generative AI/LLM use cases; set technical roadmap and mentor data scientists to drive measurable business impact.

Leads graph analytics, identity resolution, forecasting, and predictive modeling initiatives for operational, commercial, and product decisions. Designs scalable graph data models, production-ready machine learning solutions, and time-series forecasts. Establishes validation, monitoring, governance, and experimentation practices while partnering with product, engineering, and platform teams. Translates complex analytical findings into business recommendations and provides technical leadership across graph science, forecasting, optimization, and decision-support capabilities.

Build and deploy production-grade LLM applications, AI agents, models, and scalable RAG pipelines for investment and business workflows. Architect secure MCP integrations with enterprise systems, establish MLOps and LLMOps practices, optimize model performance and latency, and develop evaluation, monitoring, governance, and rollback processes. Collaborate with data engineering and platform teams to provide secure, governed access to organizational data.

Partner with product engineering to design and analyze experiments, apply causal reasoning and statistical modeling to marketplace data, and drive data-informed product decisions across the engineering org.

The role involves preparing traffic data, developing and deploying machine learning models on Google Vertex AI, and collaborating with teams to improve project workflows.

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.

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.