Top Remote Data Science Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

Design, validate, and deploy scalable statistical and distributional models for enterprise consumer analytics. Implement rigorous methodologies, convert ad-hoc analyses into version-controlled analytical libraries, and partner with Data Engineering to optimize performance and scale compute workloads (including cloud/Databricks). Deliver reproducible analytics powering dashboards and LLM-driven applications, with a focus on panel and transaction-level consumer data.

Senior individual contributor responsible for leading pet/P&C insurance pricing model development (GLMs and ML), owning end-to-end projects, performing EDA and root-cause analysis, communicating results to stakeholders, and mentoring junior team members.

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

Lead a 5–8 person Data Science team to develop and operationalize FWA detection models using SAS and Python on multi‑payer healthcare claims. Oversee model development, data pipelines, quality reviews, stakeholder presentations, and collaboration with SMEs and BI developers. Split role ~40% management, 60% hands-on coding/analysis.

Lead methodology and modeling for causal inference, experimentation, and predictive analytics. Design and evaluate experiments, build production-ready models and evaluation pipelines, collaborate with Product/Economics/Research/Engineering, communicate findings to varied audiences, and document institutionalized analytical practices.

Lead end-to-end delivery of strategic data science and AI projects: define business problems with stakeholders, prepare large datasets, build and deploy predictive, prescriptive, and generative AI models (including LLMs), implement prompt engineering and fine-tuning, ensure production-grade code and ML lifecycle practices, present insights to senior stakeholders, and promote responsible AI and adoption across teams.

The Senior Data Scientist will manage data collection, design study protocols, train juniors, lead report development, and support innovative analytics tools.

The Senior Data Scientist oversees data collection and preparation, designs study protocols, leads report development, trains junior employees, and manages project workstreams while collaborating with team members to optimize business performance.

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 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.

Develop, validate, and improve machine learning models (regression, classification, forecasting, optimization). Prepare data, perform feature engineering, train and evaluate models, and support deployment with Data/ML Engineering. Communicate results, document methods, and collaborate on experiments and cross-functional initiatives.

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 and implement data models, pipelines, and ML systems to power AI agents and analytics. Build, deploy, and monitor machine learning models at scale, integrate Snowflake/AWS and Salesforce Data Cloud, and deliver production-ready data products and views to stakeholders.

Design, build, evaluate, and deploy predictive ML models across regression, classification, NLP, computer vision, and time-series problems. Perform data cleaning, feature engineering, EDA, model selection, tuning, explanation (SHAP, feature importance), and collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to operationalize and monitor models in production.

As a Data Scientist III, you'll build customer identity systems, develop recommendation models, predictive analytics for customer behavior, and collaborate with ML Ops and Data Engineering.

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.

The Data Scientist will develop predictive models, analyze geophysical data, and collaborate with geoscientists to enhance exploration programs, focusing on mineral deposits.

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: acquire and prepare messy datasets, develop and evaluate models tied to business outcomes, operationalize models at scale, run experiments, drive ethics/privacy, partner with customers and teams, and coach cross-disciplinary colleagues.

Develop autonomous AI agents capable of goal setting, decomposition, planning, tool use, memory, and long-horizon execution. Build evaluation frameworks for alignment, reliability, and safety; identify goal misalignment and undesirable behaviors; and integrate agent systems with APIs, databases, search engines, and other tools. Responsibilities include designing production-ready machine learning systems, collaborating across teams, and advancing agent autonomy through planning, causal reasoning, model-based reinforcement learning, and language modeling.

Lead data science engagements with customers to acquire, clean, analyze, and model data; develop scalable operational models and evaluation methods; coach engineers on best practices; drive solution strategy, ethics, and industry thought leadership; write extensible code and collaborate across teams to deliver cloud-based AI solutions.

Lead development and deployment of ML/AI solutions for customer success and support: own architecture, ensure Responsible AI and security, drive reliability and observability, mentor teams, partner with engineering/product to deliver scalable, measurable customer value.

Own the analytical function for a business area such as growth, product, AI and automation, or strategic partnerships. Define business problems, metrics, reports, analyses, and experiments; interpret data; and deliver recommendations that influence leadership decisions and business outcomes. The role requires independent analytical execution, strong SQL or Python skills, first-principles problem solving, persuasive communication, and ownership of ambiguous initiatives.