Top Senior Data Science Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead end-to-end predictive analytics and machine learning initiatives, including forecasting, churn prediction, and risk modeling. Translate business needs into scalable ML solutions, build and deploy models on AWS SageMaker, develop production ML pipelines, and oversee monitoring, governance, explainability, and retraining. Collaborate with engineering and MLOps teams, communicate insights to stakeholders, and mentor junior data scientists while providing hands-on technical leadership.

Design and analyze incrementality tests, media mix models, causal analyses, and advanced analytics for marketing measurement. Work with large marketing datasets, assess methodological validity, conduct power and sensitivity analyses, and translate findings into media planning recommendations. Collaborate cross-functionally, improve measurement standards, and mentor junior data scientists.

Own end-to-end data science for a core business area such as growth, product, AI and automation, or strategic partnerships. Define business problems, metrics, reports, analyses, and experiments; generate actionable insights; communicate recommendations; and influence product, growth, finance, and operations leaders to drive measurable outcomes.

The Staff Data Scientist will lead the development and deployment of ML and GenAI systems to detect billing errors and fraud in healthcare payments, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Build and productionize ML models and data infrastructure to analyze millions of chaos engineering experiments, detect and explain failures, recommend automated remediation, and integrate AI-driven failure analysis into Gremlin's product using techniques like causal inference, graph ML, time-series modeling, and reinforcement learning.

Own the analytical function for a core business area such as growth, product, AI and automation, or strategic partnerships. Define business questions, metrics, reports, analyses, and experiments; generate insights; and drive data-informed decisions with cross-functional stakeholders. The role requires independently structuring ambiguous problems, using SQL or Python, communicating findings clearly, and delivering measurable business impact.

Develop and deploy predictive and causal models for personalization, retention, monetization, and product strategy. Design experimentation and measurement frameworks, analyze user and marketing behavior, quantify business impact, and translate complex findings into strategic decisions. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data Product teams to build scalable data solutions. Mentor peers, promote rigorous model validation and governance, and apply Python, SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Spark, and AWS to production-ready data science initiatives.

Develop and enhance predictive models for search and recommendations using large datasets, statistical methods, and machine learning. Incorporate new data sources, design controlled experiments, communicate insights to senior leadership, research emerging methodologies, and help shape the data science roadmap. The role also requires collaboration, project delivery, and explaining technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Seeking a skilled Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer to develop machine learning models, design AI systems, and collaborate in data analytics. Responsibilities include productionizing models, data engineering, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead the design, development, deployment, and governance of advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI solutions using large healthcare datasets. Responsibilities include data preparation, statistical and predictive modeling, model monitoring, explainability, visualization, stakeholder communication, and translating findings into clinical and operational improvements. The role also mentors data professionals, advises leaders, manages initiative priorities and risks, and promotes responsible AI and Agile practices.

Design and deploy ML systems for enterprise search, recommendations, retrieval, and AI agents. Build scalable data/ML pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and metrics. Apply statistics, experimentation, and causal inference to guide product decisions. Collaborate cross-functionally, prototype LLM-based capabilities (embeddings, RAG), and mentor junior team members.

Lead design and deployment of ML systems for enterprise search, retrieval, recommendations, and AI agents. Build scalable data/ML pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and KPIs. Apply statistics, causal inference, experimentation, and analysis to guide product strategy. Prototype and productionize LLM-based features, mentor junior staff, and collaborate cross-functionally.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll optimize search relevance, retrieve content, analyze data, and collaborate with teams to enhance product strategies.

Lead design and production deployment of ML models focused on pricing, availability, forecasting, and optimization. Build data infrastructure, governance, testing/monitoring, and dashboards. Partner with executives and cross-functional teams, mentor others, and establish scalable data-science practices and experimentation frameworks.

Build and deploy end-to-end ML models for renter acquisition, supply optimization, ranking, personalization, and marketplace optimization. Lead technical projects from problem framing through experimentation, launch, monitoring, and iteration. Apply statistical methods, causal inference, and rigorous A/B testing. Partner cross-functionally, mentor other data scientists, and raise modeling and experimentation standards.

Build production AI retrieval and knowledge systems for rare disease research at NIH. Model biomedical ontologies in PostgreSQL, develop semantic search, retrieval-augmented services, ranking, evaluation, and observability, and deliver user interfaces with Next.js, React, and TypeScript. Deploy and operate services in on-premises and HPC Kubernetes environments, including GPU inference. Collaborate with NIH staff, clinicians, and researchers, and contribute to scientific publications.

Build and operate agentic AI systems for rare disease research, including multi-turn workflows, structured and validated outputs, tool calling, prompt testing, evaluation suites, asynchronous execution, streaming, observability, and failure handling. Collaborate with NIH staff, clinicians, geneticists, researchers, and patient communities to translate needs into reliable data models and system behavior. Own components through deployment, establish AI engineering standards, and contribute to scientific manuscripts, abstracts, and conference posters.

Develop and deploy NLP and machine learning models for classification, sentiment analysis, entity extraction, information retrieval, and user intent detection across large-scale legal, financial, news, and business datasets. Design scalable data science pipelines, evaluate modern AI algorithms and tools, translate business needs into technical solutions, and collaborate with product and engineering teams. Mentor junior scientists and contribute to model deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and development best practices.

Senior individual contributor responsible for leading pet/P&C insurance pricing model development (GLMs and ML), owning end-to-end projects, performing EDA and root-cause analysis, communicating results to stakeholders, and mentoring junior team members.

Develop and tune ML models, productionize and deploy strategies for ML systems, and align cross-functionally to communicate performance metrics.

Lead end-to-end machine learning and advanced analytics projects: frame problems, build and deploy predictive/prescriptive models, design ETL pipelines, create dashboards and A/B test metrics, and deliver actionable insights to business stakeholders to improve fleet, pricing, and ridesharing products.

Lead end-to-end development of fraud and risk ML systems: define problems, engineer features, build and evaluate models, collaborate with product and engineering, deploy with ML engineers, and monitor production performance to detect drift and trigger retraining.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will lead initiatives to build and optimize machine learning models, collaborate across departments, and solve complex business problems using data.

As a Data Scientist, you will build predictive models, develop software tools, and analyze geoscientific data to support mineral exploration and discovery.

As a Data Scientist, you will develop predictive models, analyze geoscientific data, and collaborate with geoscientists to improve mineral exploration efforts.