Top Remote Data Science Jobs in Portland, ME

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

Own the 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 insights; and drive data-informed decisions with cross-functional stakeholders. The role requires independently structuring data, solving ambiguous problems, communicating findings clearly, and influencing leadership-level decisions using SQL or Python.

Owns the end-to-end development of cybersecurity vulnerability and exploit prediction models, including problem framing, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, calibration, monitoring, and drift detection. The role addresses extreme class imbalance, hierarchical modeling, cold-start customers, and uncertainty quantification. It also requires explaining model outputs to security executives, publishing methodologies and benchmarks, and partnering with engineering to deploy reliable production systems.

Lead development and deployment of machine learning models, perform EDA and data engineering on large datasets, train models including LLMs and unstructured-data solutions, build Power BI dashboards, automate processes, present findings to leadership, and mentor junior data scientists while working with SQL, Python, AWS/Azure, Snowflake, and Salesforce.

Provides biostatistical data science and analytics support for clinical development and evidence generation. Collaborates with biostatistics, data management, clinical development, and medical affairs teams; applies statistics, mathematics, AI, and innovative technologies to clinical trial and real-world data. Contributes to clinical trial design, statistical analysis plans, clinical study reports, publications, and protocol development while following ICH and FDA guidelines.

Own end-to-end data science for a priority vertical (starting with Insurance): frame business problems, build and validate models, partner with ML engineering for deployment, monitor live ROAS performance, and drive measurable revenue and lead quality improvements.

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.

Lead development, validation, deployment, and quality control of advanced analytics and ML solutions for fraud detection, waste and abuse, investigative analysis, and program integrity. Provide technical leadership, translate stakeholder requirements, mentor team members, and ensure models are explainable, defensible, and production-ready.

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

Lead data science strategy across complex customer engagements, turn ambiguous business problems into repeatable ML solutions, define modeling and evaluation standards, drive data readiness and MLOps practices, mentor teams, produce reusable IP, and represent Microsoft in executive and thought-leadership forums.

Lead predictive modeling and causal inference initiatives for clients, developing models from exploratory analysis through production deployment, monitoring, and retraining. Apply GLMs, econometric methods, uplift modeling, propensity methods, and deep-learning forecasting. Process large-scale data with SQL and Spark, build models in Python, improve production reliability, and communicate findings to technical and business stakeholders in a consulting environment.