Top Data Science Jobs in Richmond, VA

Leads teams in designing and deploying scalable AI and machine learning solutions for consulting clients. Responsibilities include data wrangling, complex analysis, data modeling, AI system implementation, data pipeline and infrastructure oversight, deep learning, neural networks, data quality validation, and stakeholder collaboration. The manager coaches team members, manages performance, supports innovation, and applies Python, Java, and cloud technologies to build production-ready AI applications.

Leads the design, development, and deployment of scalable AI, generative AI, and machine learning solutions. Oversees data infrastructure, integration, data quality, and advanced analytics while managing client engagements and executive relationships. Drives business development, strategic direction, innovation, and AI-driven automation. Mentors teams, develops future leaders, and fosters collaboration, integrity, and client satisfaction across complex projects.

Build and deploy machine learning models for personal loan acquisition, including underwriting, pricing, verification, list selection, and campaign optimization. Analyze large-scale numeric and textual datasets using Python, Spark, AWS, H2O, and related tools. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers, validate and backtest models, and translate statistical insights into business outcomes.

Build and implement machine learning models for personal loan acquisition, including customer selection, campaign optimization, underwriting, pricing, and verification. Partner with data scientists, engineers, and product managers; analyze large-scale numeric and textual datasets using Python, Spark, AWS, and related tools; validate and backtest models; and translate statistical insights into customer-focused business outcomes.

Analyze complex datasets to deliver actionable insights for production, resource allocation, and personnel decisions. Develop Tableau dashboards and visualizations, preprocess and clean structured and unstructured data using Python or R, and analyze time-series data. Collaborate with stakeholders, ensure data quality, document methodologies, and provide recommendations. The role requires an active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance and is onsite in Northern Virginia.

Develop and deploy machine learning solutions for enterprise risk and anti-money-laundering innovation. Partner with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to build models using structured and textual data, including NLP, graph modeling, deep learning, and Generative AI. Lead projects through design, training, validation, evaluation, and implementation while translating technical findings into business outcomes.

Own the reliability and quality of an AI copilot for a trading platform. Build evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, quality gates, monitoring, incident response, and model improvement workflows. Partner with engineering and product to create safe, auditable tool interactions and improve assistant behavior. Develop domain expertise in trading, risk, margin, execution, and portfolio reasoning while operating across model, backend, and frontend systems.

Leads data science initiatives for Capital One’s Card Mainstreet business. Partners with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to develop customer-focused solutions; analyzes large-scale numeric and textual data; builds, validates, and implements machine learning models; translates technical findings into business outcomes; and supports innovation and team talent development.

Own product analytics for a healthcare platform by translating business questions into research plans, uncovering insights, modeling feature impacts, defining success criteria, and leading A/B testing. Partner with Product, Data Engineering, Finance, Clinical, and Operations teams to influence roadmap decisions, improve provider experience and quality, and optimize marketplace performance.

Develop and implement data science strategies for machine learning applications including lead scoring, churn modeling, pricing, personalization, and fraud detection. Own end-to-end initiatives spanning data analysis, feature engineering, model training, inference, and monitoring. Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, analytics, and business teams to deliver measurable impact, improve data capabilities, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Create reproducible data science and machine learning tasks with verified reference solutions, robust tests, and evaluation criteria. Investigate coding-agent failures, identify implementation errors and data leakage, refine task designs, and document requirements and verification steps. The role requires competitive data science experience, mathematical reasoning, programming ability, and practical expertise in implementing and validating solutions.

Develops and maintains enterprise data systems, models, schemas, metadata, governance processes, and data workflows supporting the U.S. Navy. Performs data quality validation, ingestion and transformation, forecasting, scenario analysis, and risk assessment. The role also automates data processing, recommends architecture improvements, collaborates with technical and nontechnical stakeholders, and provides expertise in enterprise data management.

Develop and deploy data science solutions for pharmacy benefits and member experience, including predictive models, generative AI pipelines, and rules-based logic. Extract and analyze large-scale data with Python and SQL, manage model lifecycles, monitor production performance, and communicate insights to clinical and business leaders. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and operational stakeholders to solve complex healthcare and PBM problems.

Analyze large datasets, identify meaningful patterns, develop machine learning models, and deliver actionable insights for business decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs, communicate findings clearly to stakeholders, and stay current with advances in data science and AI technologies.

Drive product and business impact through statistical modeling, experiment design, Bayesian marketing analysis, machine learning, NLP, LLM applications, and classifier implementation. Build growth metrics, monitoring pipelines, evaluation datasets, and AI trigger systems across search and Duck.ai. Analyze privacy-constrained data, deploy production-grade models, optimize SQL queries, and lead complex projects from scoping through production with minimal direction.

Builds workforce analytics, visualizations, statistical analyses, time-series forecasts, and machine learning models using HR and clinical data. The role predicts staffing needs and employee attrition, analyzes pay and burnout relationships, supports pay equity and recruitment optimization, and translates HR strategies into measurable KPIs. Responsibilities include deploying models on cloud platforms, conducting experiments, protecting employee data, and communicating insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Lead the development of statistical and machine learning models for time-series and geospatial data. Build analytic solutions, datasets, ETL workflows, forecasting and anomaly-detection models, simulations, visualizations, and reports. Evaluate algorithm performance, optimize classifiers, document processes, and collaborate with engineers, analysts, mission partners, and stakeholders to deliver reliable mission-focused software and data capabilities.

Develops statistical and machine learning models for kinematic behavior detection using live, historical, time-series, and geospatial data. Responsibilities include data integration, ETL, feature engineering, forecasting, anomaly detection, algorithm evaluation, simulation, visualization, reporting, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also contributes to mission-focused software applications, APIs, data workflows, code reviews, troubleshooting, and agile development in a remote-first environment.

Lead statistical and machine learning model development for time-series and geospatial data supporting the FALCON mission. Responsibilities include feature engineering, forecasting, anomaly detection, ETL, dataset creation, algorithm evaluation, simulation, data visualization, reporting, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also contributes to software applications, APIs, data pipelines, code reviews, troubleshooting, and iterative agile development.

Lead a small data science team while remaining hands-on in building advertising audience, measurement, ranking, and data-feed models. Set technical direction, apply causal inference and experimental design, build scalable production systems, mentor scientists, and partner with product, engineering, sales, and business development teams. Translate campaign data into trusted measurement products, influence senior leaders and customers, and establish Fetch’s methodology as a market standard.

Develop fraud-detection and identity-risk machine learning models from problem definition through deployment. Investigate fraud patterns, engineer predictive features, evaluate model performance, and monitor drift across batch and real-time decisioning environments. Collaborate with senior data scientists and engineers using Python and PySpark while supporting model documentation, explainability, privacy, validation, and governance.

Develops predictive models, machine learning solutions, data pipelines, statistical analyses, and internal data applications. The role uses Python and SQL Server to analyze structured and unstructured data, applying NLP, classification, regression, clustering, automation, and AI/LLM techniques. Responsibilities include maintaining data science platforms, supporting cross-functional decision-making, and communicating technical findings to non-technical audiences.

Develops and deploys production machine learning models and data products for enterprise use. Responsibilities include data mining, feature engineering, model evaluation, NLP and LLM/RAG solutions, API and pipeline integration, cloud-based deployment, model validation, A/B testing, documentation, and lifecycle management. The role translates business needs into scalable data science solutions and collaborates with product, engineering, and business stakeholders throughout the SDLC.

Support data-driven decision-making by collecting, cleaning, and analyzing structured and unstructured data, performing EDA, assisting in building and validating ML and statistical models, creating visualizations and dashboards, documenting findings, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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.