Top Remote Data Science Jobs in San Diego, CA

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.

Lead a data science team to design, build, and deploy large-scale, real-time AI/ML solutions (forecasting, diagnostics, LLM chatbot, retention models, optimization) to optimize GPU cloud gaming performance and user experience.

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.

Develops machine learning models and production data science pipelines to improve subscription conversion, content recommendations, user understanding, workflow automation, and product decisions. Leads analytical projects and experiments, applies statistical methods to web-scale data, and collaborates with data, product, growth, and engineering teams. The role also communicates complex findings to diverse audiences and helps foster a strong data science culture.

Develop and deploy machine learning and LLM-based solutions for cybersecurity challenges. Responsibilities include analyzing complex datasets, building classification and NLP models, optimizing prompting, embeddings, RAG, and fine-tuning techniques, designing evaluation methodologies, and integrating models into scalable production systems. The role requires collaboration with cybersecurity researchers, software engineers, data engineers, and product managers.

Measures customer engagement impact on pipeline, renewals, account health, and predictive model performance. Conducts baseline, holdout, before-and-after, and control-group analyses; validates customer data and helps tune models. Builds reusable value analyses, dashboards, and reporting for leadership, Customer Success, and Data Science. Requires strong SQL, Python, statistics, experiment design, business communication, and experience translating messy data into trusted insights.

Develop and standardize analytical methods for inferring residence, displacement, and poverty from mobile network operator data. Assess data quality, write technical specifications and tests, guide operator engineering teams, tune statistical methods, and balance accuracy with implementation constraints. Design privacy-preserving analyses, improve data security practices, train internal teams, and support international workshops and emergency-response programs.

Lead data science and AI consulting engagements for technology, media, and entertainment clients. Develop Agentic AI solutions, statistical models, experiments, KPIs, and advanced analytics to solve business problems. Manage client relationships, teams, staffing, quality assurance, stakeholder communication, and executive presentations. Support proposals, business development, thought leadership, training, and growth of the analytics practice.

The Senior Data Scientist will conduct product analysis, build advanced models and analytics tools, evaluate A/B tests, develop automated dashboards, and generate recommendations for product strategy. The role partners with business stakeholders and Engineering to improve data infrastructure and governance, communicate statistical insights, and support data-driven decisions across Product, Marketing, and Finance.

Own product-led growth analytics across activation, engagement, conversion, monetization, and retention. Lead experimentation, statistical analysis, causal inference, metric development, and proactive opportunity discovery. Build scalable analytical systems, monitoring frameworks, semantic models, and AI-powered tools. Partner with Product, Engineering, and leadership to shape product bets, investment decisions, and roadmap priorities. Work autonomously in a remote-first environment and communicate complex findings through clear, actionable recommendations.

Develop and own advanced machine learning and AI models using bank transaction and cashflow data to enable financial product capabilities, manage risk, and drive profitable growth. Design experiments, build proofs of concept, monitor production models, and collaborate with data and machine learning engineering teams on scalability. Communicate findings and tradeoffs to business stakeholders while applying statistical, research, and financial services expertise.

Build predictive and machine learning models for patient needs, operational forecasting, churn, advocate quality, and risk. Design A/B tests and causal inference studies, apply advanced statistical methods, productionize models with data engineers, and communicate insights to business stakeholders. The role requires Python, advanced SQL, forecasting expertise, statistical proficiency, data privacy awareness, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced healthcare startup.

Lead computational platform development for biological design, optimization, and functional prediction. Collaborate with wet-lab scientists to validate predictions, oversee data infrastructure and computational workflows, and contribute to technology roadmaps, funding proposals, and partnerships. The role requires developing machine learning methods for biological sequence and structure analysis, translating biological problems into computational solutions, and leading technical teams across computational and experimental disciplines.

Build and deploy machine learning models that personalize insurance products, analyze product data, design experiments, and measure model impact. The role owns the full data science lifecycle, including data wrangling, production coding, model monitoring, retraining, and experimentation. Responsibilities also include cross-functional collaboration, code reviews, mentoring data scientists, and improving platform practices.

Build and evaluate machine learning models and features for fraud detection across account opening, account takeover, and identity risk. Investigate fraud patterns, analyze complex datasets, develop production-ready code, validate models, and support monitoring and deployment. Collaborate with senior data scientists, engineers, and score monitoring teams while communicating findings to technical and nontechnical audiences. Apply data privacy, explainability, documentation, validation, and governance standards.

Own data science for customer-facing product features, including LTV prediction, experimentation, benchmarking, and forecasting. Proactively analyze data to identify customer problems and product opportunities, build and deploy production-grade models, and influence product roadmaps. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Analytics, communicate findings to varied audiences, iterate on shipped features, and lead new data-driven initiatives.

Lead data science and advanced analytics initiatives supporting underwriting, operational performance, and risk management. Develop, validate, deploy, and monitor explainable predictive models in a regulated insurance environment. Translate business needs into scalable analytical solutions, partner with governance and risk stakeholders, lead data scientists and analysts, and communicate insights to senior leaders. The role also supports enterprise data platforms, modern architectures, responsible AI, regulatory compliance, and data-driven organizational change.

Evaluate migration technologies, build quantitative models for migration risk and data quality, coordinate customer migration projects, develop data pipelines and analytical frameworks, implement Python and SQL validation workflows, assess cloud environments, and create dashboards and reporting for product, sales, and operations teams.

Lead client engagements from data onboarding through production, plan studies that demonstrate business value, and build automated machine learning workflows using Python, scikit-learn, pandas, and Spark. Translate client business questions into data solutions, manage stakeholder relationships, evaluate model performance, and inform product planning. Requires healthcare or life sciences data experience and end-to-end delivery of sophisticated data or machine learning solutions.