Top Remote Data Science Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Supports the design, validation, and operationalization of predictive, machine learning, and AI models. Analyzes structured and unstructured data, develops algorithms, validates outcomes, creates visualizations, and communicates findings to stakeholders. Collaborates cross-functionally to integrate solutions and prepares model pipelines for business use. The role also involves statistical analysis, NLP, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and research into emerging technologies.

Develop and maintain enterprise databases, data models, metadata frameworks, governance processes, ETL workflows, and data quality systems. Perform forecasting, scenario analysis, and risk assessment using complex datasets. Build automation tools, support data integration, recommend improvements, and collaborate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders. The role supports U.S. Navy data systems and requires active Secret clearance.

Build and own marketing measurement frameworks using media mix modeling, incrementality testing, and multi-touch attribution. Design experiments, conduct power analyses, validate models, reconcile measurement sources, and translate findings into client budget recommendations. Clean and integrate advertising, analytics, and commerce data, develop reusable code and templates, present statistical results to technical and nontechnical audiences, and support multiple clients across varied measurement environments.

The Data Scientist will transform real-world, clinical, and preclinical healthcare data into reproducible datasets, analyses, and evidence supporting medical-device research and regulatory needs. Responsibilities include cohort development, data-quality validation, statistical programming, study design support, analysis plans, clinical and post-market analyses, documentation, and communicating findings to technical and nontechnical stakeholders. The role collaborates with Scientific, Clinical, R&D, Regulatory, Quality, IT, and external data partners.

Conduct actuarial and predictive analysis supporting product development, rating, reserving, pricing, financial analysis, and process improvements. Develop predictive models, multivariate analyses, tools, workflows, and scalable data processes. Collaborate with actuaries, product managers, vendors, and business units to translate complex data into strategic business solutions while ensuring accuracy and regulatory compliance.

Evaluates AI-generated data science and quantitative reasoning outputs; develops prompts, datasets, reference solutions, and objective evaluation benchmarks. Identifies statistical errors, flawed methodologies, and unsupported conclusions while providing structured feedback to improve model accuracy. Responsibilities include dataset validation, statistical and quantitative assessment, quality assurance, technical documentation, and clear communication of analytical findings.

Designs challenging data science and machine learning tasks, builds reproducible environments and verified reference solutions, and develops automated tests and evaluation frameworks for AI-generated code. The role analyzes AI agent performance, identifies bugs, leakage, overfitting, and methodological weaknesses, documents technical requirements, and iteratively improves task reliability and complexity.

Support data-driven decision-making by collecting, cleaning, and analyzing structured and unstructured data, performing EDA, assisting in building and validating ML and statistical models, creating visualizations and dashboards, documenting findings, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Develop and deploy machine learning, AI, causal inference, and statistical solutions for advertising measurement products. Build prototypes, conduct experiments, analyze large-scale data, and advance attribution capabilities from early concepts through production. Collaborate with engineering, product, analysts, and account teams to improve measurement and marketing ROI. Responsibilities include owning measurement products, applying Bayesian and marketing models, writing production code, and communicating methodologies and findings to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Develop AI and machine learning solutions for fraud, anomaly detection, semantic search, entity resolution, and investigative analytics. Build and operationalize models across structured and unstructured data using AWS data lakehouse services, generative AI, NLP, graph analytics, and document intelligence. Evaluate model performance, explainability, monitoring, and risk scoring while supporting production integration, dashboards, and investigative workflows. Collaborate with technical teams, investigators, stakeholders, and federal clients in an Agile environment.

Develop, train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor machine learning and statistical models using Databricks, Python, SQL, Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Prepare datasets, engineer features, manage model lifecycles, validate data, and support governance practices. Translate client requirements into scalable analytics solutions, analyze trends, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders while collaborating across data science, engineering, cloud, security, and business teams.

Drive product and business impact through statistical modeling, experiment design, Bayesian marketing analysis, machine learning, NLP, LLM applications, and classifier implementation. Build growth metrics, monitoring pipelines, evaluation datasets, and AI trigger systems across search and Duck.ai. Analyze privacy-constrained data, deploy production-grade models, optimize SQL queries, and lead complex projects from scoping through production with minimal direction.

Lead the development of statistical and machine learning models for time-series and geospatial data. Build analytic solutions, datasets, ETL workflows, forecasting and anomaly-detection models, simulations, visualizations, and reports. Evaluate algorithm performance, optimize classifiers, document processes, and collaborate with engineers, analysts, mission partners, and stakeholders to deliver reliable mission-focused software and data capabilities.

Develops statistical and machine learning models for kinematic behavior detection using live, historical, time-series, and geospatial data. Responsibilities include data integration, ETL, feature engineering, forecasting, anomaly detection, algorithm evaluation, simulation, visualization, reporting, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also contributes to mission-focused software applications, APIs, data workflows, code reviews, troubleshooting, and agile development in a remote-first environment.

Lead statistical and machine learning model development for time-series and geospatial data supporting the FALCON mission. Responsibilities include feature engineering, forecasting, anomaly detection, ETL, dataset creation, algorithm evaluation, simulation, data visualization, reporting, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also contributes to software applications, APIs, data pipelines, code reviews, troubleshooting, and iterative agile development.

Lead a small data science team while remaining hands-on in building advertising audience, measurement, ranking, and data-feed models. Set technical direction, apply causal inference and experimental design, build scalable production systems, mentor scientists, and partner with product, engineering, sales, and business development teams. Translate campaign data into trusted measurement products, influence senior leaders and customers, and establish Fetch’s methodology as a market standard.

Develops predictive models, machine learning solutions, data pipelines, statistical analyses, and internal data applications. The role uses Python and SQL Server to analyze structured and unstructured data, applying NLP, classification, regression, clustering, automation, and AI/LLM techniques. Responsibilities include maintaining data science platforms, supporting cross-functional decision-making, and communicating technical findings to non-technical audiences.

Early-career Data Scientist supporting supply chain transformation through machine learning, forecasting, statistical modeling, data preparation, dashboards, and AI solutions. The role addresses inventory optimization, demand forecasting, production planning, delivery performance, and cost reduction. Responsibilities include developing analytical datasets and workflows with Python and SQL, evaluating models, integrating enterprise data, supporting cloud-based analytics, and communicating insights to business stakeholders in a manufacturing environment.

Build synthetic data pipelines, evaluation systems, benchmarks, verifiers, rubrics, and quality metrics for legal AI models and agentic workflows. Partner with researchers, legal experts, and customers to investigate model failures, validate metrics, maintain data quality and provenance, and convert expert feedback and product usage into training signals and improved evaluations.

Develop marketing effectiveness analytics using Marketing Mix Modeling, attribution, customer lifetime value, experimentation, and causal inference. Build automated, scalable model pipelines, insight-ready datasets, and self-serve dashboards. Analyze campaigns, support marketing strategy, communicate findings to executives, and lead high-impact projects independently while collaborating cross-functionally.

Own analytical strategy and develop AI/ML models for Zip’s financial products, including cash and rent advances. Lead ambiguous 0-to-1 initiatives using bank transaction data, establish evaluation frameworks, guide risk and growth decisions, and deliver models from experimentation through production. Provide technical direction to data scientists, mentor junior team members, collaborate with engineering, and advise senior stakeholders on model trade-offs. The role requires strong financial services, statistical, research, and machine learning expertise.

Build, train, evaluate, and deploy deep learning models for credit modeling and loss prediction. Conduct representation learning experiments, integrate models into ML pipelines, and own projects from hypothesis through measurable business outcomes. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product partners, communicate findings, and develop agentic tools that accelerate data science workflows.

Lead end-to-end data science for customer-embedded, production solutions: acquire and prepare messy datasets, develop and evaluate models tied to business outcomes, run experiments, deploy operational models at scale, coach cross-disciplinary teams, and drive strategy, ethics, and privacy discussions.

Design and architect secure, scalable healthcare data systems; create core data models using TUVA, OMOP, and FHIR; build production data pipelines and EMR integrations; establish data quality and governance; optimize performance; deploy cloud infrastructure; and ensure HIPAA and HITRUST compliance. The role requires expert SQL and Python or Scala skills, advanced data warehouse and big-data experience, and at least eight years in data science or data engineering.

Develops data quality checks, metadata standards, and AI use-case inventories for HHS. Cleans and integrates complex datasets, applies machine learning and NLP for automated tagging and classification, evaluates AI governance risks, and produces reporting datasets, dashboards, and recommendations. The role requires translating ambiguous federal policy and reporting requirements into repeatable analytical workflows while collaborating with product, design, engineering, and government stakeholders.