Top Remote Data Science Jobs in Richmond, VA

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.

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.

Develops advanced analytics for national security using large, disparate datasets. Responsibilities include designing data exploitation methods, researching sponsor inquiries, developing custom searches, applying classification, regression, clustering, and anomaly detection algorithms, and supporting threat hunting and malicious-activity detection. The role also involves statistical analysis, data visualization for nontechnical audiences, and prototyping data engineering pipelines.

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.

Design, develop, and deploy ML, NLP, and generative AI solutions to improve scientific discovery. Build retrieval, recommendation, ranking, and RAG systems; fine-tune and evaluate LLMs; create evaluation frameworks; build scalable data pipelines; collaborate with cross-functional teams and produce production-quality Python code to deliver reliable, impactful AI systems for research use.

Design, develop, and deploy ML, NLP, and generative-AI solutions (including LLMs and RAG) to improve search, retrieval, recommendation, and question-answering across scientific publications and datasets. Build scalable pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and production-quality Python code while collaborating with engineering, product, UX, and domain experts to measure and improve model reliability, relevance, and user impact.

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.

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.

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.

Design, build, evaluate, and productionize agentic AI, LLM, RAG, and predictive ML systems for scientific information products. Develop training and inference pipelines, fine-tune models, establish trustworthy-AI evaluation and safeguards, and operate AI capabilities at scale. Set engineering standards, lead technical initiatives, mentor scientists and engineers, influence product and executive decisions, and communicate results through presentations, publications, and client engagements.

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.

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.

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.

Design, develop, and deploy supervised machine learning models for credit decisioning. Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to create data sources, improve modeling methodology, operationalize models, and manage model evaluation and risk for production systems.