Top Remote Data Science Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Leads company-wide data science priorities, KPI frameworks, measurement standards, causal modeling, scenario planning, and agentic analytical automation. Builds reproducible SQL and Python workflows, validates predictive and causal relationships, establishes trusted metrics, partners with Finance, Product, Commercial, Engineering, and Data Engineering, and mentors scientists. The role drives adoption of governed self-service analytics and communicates assumptions, uncertainty, and business trade-offs to leadership.

Develop and deploy machine learning, AI, causal inference, and statistical solutions for advertising measurement products. Own projects from prototyping through production, conduct experiments, explore large-scale data, and collaborate with product, engineering, analysts, and account teams to improve attribution and marketing ROI.

Build and deploy machine learning models on large healthcare datasets, extract actionable insights, develop scalable data processing systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and communicate findings to stakeholders to improve patient outcomes.

Lead analytics for client engagements across data onboarding, study planning, predictive modeling, production deployment, and ongoing optimization. Develop models for audience targeting, segmentation, propensity scoring, and campaign optimization, primarily for commercial pharmaceutical applications. Partner with business, analytics, and IT stakeholders, lead technical workshops, present findings to senior audiences, and manage client relationships. Build machine learning pipelines using Python, SQL, and cloud technologies, while contributing client insights to internal product development.

Develop revenue optimization and risk mitigation strategies using experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, Monte Carlo simulations, and machine learning. Build data pipelines, improve analytics infrastructure, generate insights for client-facing teams, and influence Product and Engineering roadmaps. The role requires strong strategic thinking, business impact orientation, and collaboration in a remote-first environment.

Set the technical vision for data science, lead complex statistical and machine learning model development from concept through production, and architect scalable modeling platforms and pipelines. Develop credit risk, pricing, and loss forecasting models; establish model governance standards; partner with senior leaders; mentor data scientists; and communicate technical strategy to executives. The role emphasizes production deployment, monitoring, cloud architecture, and high-impact decision-making across the business.

Leads people analytics research using causal inference, quasi-experimental methods, statistical modeling, and large workforce datasets. Partners with Recruiting, Compensation, Talent, Legal, and business leaders on hiring, retention, promotion, pay equity, quality-of-hire, and organizational effectiveness. Translates research into visualizations and actionable decisions, leads compensation analytics and governance reporting, and uses AI tools to accelerate analysis and synthesis.

The Analytics Manager analyzes complex datasets, builds models, conducts scenario analyses, and provides strategic recommendations to guide decision-making for leadership.

Conduct complex actuarial and predictive analyses supporting insurance product development, pricing, rating, reserving, financial analysis, and process improvements. Develop large-scale predictive models, multivariate analyses, SQL queries, tools, workflows, and business processes. Collaborate with actuaries, product managers, and business teams, communicate insights, improve efficiency, and mentor less experienced staff.

Own Alpaca’s growth data strategy across acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and monetization. Build experimentation frameworks, causal and incrementality analyses, funnel and cohort models, LTV/CAC and churn forecasts, marketing measurement, governed growth metrics, and self-serve analytics. Partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and Finance to influence strategy and roadmaps, communicate insights to leadership, mentor data professionals, and establish standards for growth analytics.

Develop machine learning, AI, statistical, and predictive models using Snowflake and other data sources. Perform data extraction, cleansing, feature engineering, experimentation, visualization, and quality analysis. Partner with business and technical teams to deliver data products, conversational analytics, and actionable recommendations. Lead discovery sessions, communicate insights to nontechnical audiences, mentor analysts, and support enterprise data science projects.

Build and maintain Marketing Mix Models to measure marketing effectiveness, develop attribution metrics, and create optimization solutions for budget allocation and scenario planning. The role applies statistical, Bayesian, time series, regression, and optimization methods using Python and SQL. It partners with marketing and cross-functional teams to translate analytical findings into actionable business recommendations and influence investment decisions.

Own the data science strategy and experimentation roadmap for ranking and relevance. Partner with product, engineering, ML, and commercial teams to improve marketplace outcomes through ranking models, experimentation, observational analysis, KPI frameworks, and commercial impact measurement. Balance advertiser, user, and platform value; guide launch and investment decisions; communicate findings to stakeholders; mentor scientists; and develop reusable analytical methods.

Develop statistical and machine learning models using soccer tracking and event data to support player recruitment decisions. Build spatio-temporal models, metrics, analyses, and interpretation tools; validate models; communicate findings to professional club clients; and partner with engineering on cloud deployment and production reliability. The role also includes code review, model maintenance, and advancing analytical methods.

Lead data science work embedded in the newsroom: identify high-impact problems, build and productionize predictive and explanatory models, own core metrics/measurement, apply causal inference and experimentation, translate findings for senior stakeholders, and mentor junior data team members to improve analytic standards and adoption.

Own audience or measurement products for Fetch’s monetization business, translating advertiser goals and purchase behavior into predictive models, datasets, and causal studies. Build and validate audience expansion, measure advertising outcomes, assess bias and uncertainty, and improve products using campaign results. Partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, and GTM, present findings to customers, and develop reproducible analyses and production-ready assets.

Develop NLP, LLM, and machine learning pipelines to abstract clinical concepts from structured, unstructured, and multimodal healthcare data. Query healthcare source systems, curate and validate AI-ready datasets, support patient phenotyping and real-world evidence analyses, and deliver HIPAA-compliant data products. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, communicate findings to technical and clinical audiences, and improve data quality for customer AI applications. The role is remote with occasional quarterly travel.

Partner with clients to design healthcare data science solutions, curate multimodal clinical datasets, and conduct statistical, predictive, causal inference, real-world evidence, and AI/ML analyses. Responsibilities include querying EMR and other health data sources, creating statistical analysis plans, managing SQL and analytical programming, ensuring HIPAA-compliant data quality, documenting findings, and presenting results to technical, clinical, and executive audiences.

Lead development of statistical and machine learning models for time-series, geospatial, kinematic, and radar data. Build analytic solutions, training datasets, ETL workflows, forecasting and anomaly-detection models, simulations, visualizations, and performance metrics. Integrate multi-source sensor data, enhance algorithms, document processes, and collaborate with engineers, analysts, mission partners, and stakeholders in an agile environment.

Develop and lead data science and machine learning initiatives, including exploratory analysis, predictive modeling, experimentation, recommendation systems, user classification, model monitoring, and production deployment. Partner with product, marketing, analytics, and engineering teams to convert user insights into automated services. Manage projects throughout their lifecycle, support strategic ML planning, and deliver solutions for personalization, cross-selling, and retargeting.

Consult as a fractional data scientist for hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices. Lead data science initiatives: build infrastructure, develop and deploy models, create portfolio dashboards, monitor post-deployment performance, and partner with investment teams to turn data into actionable investment insights. Advise on vendor selection, data quality, technology stacks, KPIs, and governance.

Build end-to-end data science, machine learning, forecasting, time-series, and AI solutions for supply chain and manufacturing operations. Develop analytical datasets, ETL/ELT workflows, dashboards, APIs, and production models using Python, SQL, cloud platforms, and modern data technologies. Partner with business and technical stakeholders to improve inventory, demand forecasting, delivery, production planning, cost, and operational efficiency. The role owns solutions from problem definition through deployment, monitoring, adoption, and continuous improvement.

Lead end-to-end pricing experimentation and strategy for consumer and business products. Design and analyze A/B tests, build pricing models and production-grade data pipelines, partner cross-functionally, and present actionable recommendations to senior leadership.

Develop statistical and machine learning models for clinical trial enrollment, patient matching, forecasting, and trial management. Monitor model performance and bias, build scalable data pipelines using AWS services and dbt, and ensure compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and privacy standards. Collaborate with ML engineering, product, and clinical research stakeholders to integrate models into practical healthcare solutions.

Drive product-led growth through rigorous analysis of onboarding, activation, adoption, retention, expansion, and monetization. Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Sales to design experiments, analyze funnels and cohorts, identify behavioral signals, build metrics and dashboards, improve instrumentation, and translate uncertain or incomplete data into actionable product recommendations.