Top Remote Data Science Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

Develops retention, churn, and customer lifetime value models using statistical analysis and machine learning. Responsibilities include extracting and preparing structured and unstructured data, performing ad hoc analyses, creating dashboards and reports, automating analytical procedures, monitoring implemented models, and presenting findings to cross-functional business, IT, and management teams.

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.

Assist senior data scientists with data collection, preprocessing, cleaning, and basic statistical analysis. Support model development, perform basic visualizations, and document processes and findings while learning and applying data science techniques.

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.

Lead advanced research and predictive modeling on residential housing and energy performance data. Apply causal inference, anomaly detection, regression, and model validation to improve Pearl’s SCORE and energy models. Develop new performance metrics, evaluate climate-risk data, collaborate with external research partners, and communicate findings through white papers, publications, and clear stakeholder explanations.

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.

Leads consumer personalization strategy and production development for recommendations, ranking, search, browse, carts, marketing, and agentic AI experiences. Builds recommender systems, learning-to-rank models, LLM agents, evaluation frameworks, and experimentation programs. Partners with Product and Engineering on deployment, monitoring, and model quality while mentoring senior data scientists, setting technical direction, shaping roadmaps, and communicating trade-offs to executives.

Own end-to-end data science for emerging content surfaces, including product experimentation, causal inference, exploratory analysis, metrics, dashboards, and strategic insights. Identify opportunities to grow content supply, creators, and engagement while improving discovery. Lead content data architecture and quality initiatives, develop source-of-truth assets, and apply advanced statistical methods such as quasi-experiments and network testing. Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and Research to influence product direction and communicate findings to diverse audiences.

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.

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.

Leads end-to-end applied data science and AI workstreams for predictive underwriting and pricing, including problem framing, feature engineering, model development, validation, deployment, monitoring, and business-impact measurement. Builds explainable, governed, and reusable production models using healthcare and insurance data. Partners with underwriting, business, product, engineering, and legal teams; mentors others; and advances responsible AI, MLOps, model governance, and shared data science practices.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze data to drive product strategy, optimize performance, and support product launches, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll develop fraud detection models, perform detailed analyses, and work closely with teams to drive product innovation and business outcomes.