Top Senior Data Science Jobs in Richmond, VA

As a Senior Associate Data Scientist, you'll partner with teams to analyze model risks, develop machine learning models, and enhance loss forecasting processes at Capital One.

As a Data Scientist, you'll leverage data to drive corporate strategy by building machine learning models and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead development and evaluation of statistical and machine learning models to assess credit risk and challenge production models. Use Python, cloud, and big-data tools to analyze large numeric and textual datasets, partner with cross-functional credit risk and product teams, translate technical findings into business actions, and drive model validation, backtesting, and innovation.

Lead design and delivery of scalable ML systems across the full lifecycle for recommendations, demand forecasting, targeting, and personalization. Collaborate with engineers, product, and stakeholders to set architecture, metrics, and production best practices; mentor data scientists; lead experimentation and deploy/monitor models using cloud and MLOps tooling.

The Senior Associate, Data Scientist will partner with cross-functional teams to identify risks associated with models and validate machine learning models across the enterprise, enhancing decision-making while ensuring model governance and risk management.

Manage a team to assess model risks, build and validate machine learning models while leveraging advanced technologies and cross-functional collaboration.

Design and train LLMs and agentic systems for cybersecurity using RLHF/RLAIF and supervised fine-tuning. Build agent architectures, tooling, retrieval/memory, and evaluation pipelines with rigorous statistical benchmarking. Optimize prompts and inference, collaborate with engineers to productionize prototypes, and drive research on agent planning, safety, and reliability.

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.

Design, build, validate, and deploy ML and NLP solutions (including LLM/GenAI) across audit use cases. Partner with cross-functional teams, analyze large numeric and textual datasets, and translate complex models into business outcomes.

Lead model risk management for Card Intelligence: develop and validate machine learning models end-to-end, define model development standards and change management, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and translate technical results into business goals while using cloud and open-source tools at scale.

As a Principal Associate, Data Scientist, you will develop machine learning models and analytics to combat money laundering, collaborating with a cross-functional team and modernizing risk management practices.

Lead product analytics to inform strategy and optimize user experience: translate business questions into analysis, build reliable analytics infrastructure, run A/B tests and ML/statistical analyses, track funnels and cohorts, support 0-to-1 product launches, and communicate actionable insights to cross-functional teams.

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.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead high-complexity projects, develop ML and NLP solutions, and collaborate across teams to drive business impact through statistical modeling and data analysis.

Support enterprise cardiovascular quality improvement and clinical research by analyzing clinical datasets, developing dashboards and reports, performing cohort development and statistical analyses, ensuring regulatory and data governance compliance, and communicating findings to clinical and operational stakeholders to inform quality and research initiatives.

Own end-to-end modeling for vendor matching, order routing, and supply-chain optimization. Build predictive, causal, RL and OR solutions; design autonomous decision logic; quantify counterfactual impact; ship production models with data engineering; mentor senior data scientists; write technical design docs; partner on quarterly priorities and expand into revenue cycle and finance domains.

Design and deploy predictive forecasting and analytics to support Revenue operations. Build models for forecasting, churn, expansion, and pipeline analytics; create scalable dashboards; partner with Revenue Operations, Finance, and Data Engineering to improve data quality, KPI governance, and executive reporting to drive data-driven decisions and AI readiness.

Lead company-level measurement and causal strategy, define MAU×ARPU metrics and semantic mart, set scientific standards for experimentation and analysis, own strategic models (MMM, elasticity, forecasting), partner with engineering to productionize analytics, and raise org-wide scientific maturity through governance, templates, and upskilling.

Lead end-to-end supply chain planning science: own forecasting tournaments, inventory placement optimization, vendor performance systems, and raw-material signals. Define methodology, production models, and iteration loops; drive AI-native workflows (LLM-aided EDA, agentic feature engineering), partner with planning operators and engineering, and mentor junior scientists to raise methodological standards and deliver measurable business impact.

Lead end-to-end supply chain planning and forecasting modeling: demand forecasting across geographies, forecasting tournaments, inventory placement optimization, vendor performance modeling, and raw-material signal generation. Collaborate with leadership and engineering to productionize models and apply AI-native techniques (LLM-aided EDA, agentic feature engineering, AI-augmented experimentation).

Lead design, build, and production deployment of generative AI products (LLM apps, agents, copilots, RAG/search). Rapidly prototype features, build APIs/services and retrieval pipelines, optimize performance, ensure responsible AI, and mentor team members while setting AI technical direction across the organization.

Lead quantitative analysis and modeling of large real-world health datasets to estimate population-level disease prevalence and incidence. Design and implement statistical and machine learning models, maintain data pipelines and dashboards, ensure data quality and reproducibility, collaborate with clinicians and public health experts, prepare scientific reports, and support team onboarding and training.

Build and scale production-ready generative AI applications: design multi-agent workflows, implement advanced RAG with vector DBs, integrate/swap LLMs, fine-tune models, and deploy scalable FastAPI/Docker services with monitoring and optimization for latency, cost, and reliability.

Design, build, and deploy production-ready generative AI applications: architect multi-agent workflows, implement advanced RAG with vector DBs, integrate/swap LLMs, fine-tune models, and deliver scalable FastAPI-based services with monitoring, CI/CD, and containerized deployment.

Build and scale production Generative AI applications: design multi-agent systems and LangGraph workflows, implement advanced RAG with vector DBs, integrate and fine-tune LLMs, deploy FastAPI async services in Docker, and optimize GenAI performance, cost, and monitoring.