Top Senior Data Science Jobs in Richmond, VA

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.

Analyze and characterize conversational audio data, identify underrepresented areas, and build active-learning and human-in-the-loop workflows. Develop representative benchmarks, automate model adaptation, and create reusable data analysis and scoring systems. Partner with research, engineering, and data teams to run experiments, improve models, organize data, and translate complex findings into measurable product improvements.

Design, develop, and deploy supervised machine learning models for credit decisioning. Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to create data sources, improve modeling methodology, operationalize models, and manage model evaluation and risk for production systems.

Leads graph analytics, identity resolution, forecasting, and predictive modeling initiatives for operational, commercial, and product decisions. Designs scalable graph data models, production-ready machine learning solutions, and time-series forecasts. Establishes validation, monitoring, governance, and experimentation practices while partnering with product, engineering, and platform teams. Translates complex analytical findings into business recommendations and provides technical leadership across graph science, forecasting, optimization, and decision-support capabilities.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze large-scale customer data, investigate behavioral questions, design and automate studies, and translate findings into actionable recommendations. The role includes maintaining analytics frameworks, documenting methodologies, writing white papers, and communicating insights across the company. Candidates should be independent, comfortable with ambiguity, and experienced with SQL and Redshift. Python or R, machine learning, Spark, A/B testing, and cross-functional experience are preferred.

Lead evaluation and data strategy for advanced AI, vision, and perception systems. Define metrics, build evaluation frameworks, audit artifacts, prioritize fixes, and translate model behavior into product decisions and data-improvement loops to ensure production readiness and downstream usefulness.

Lead end-to-end data science for a priority vertical (Insurance), building, validating, and deploying ML models that drive ROAS and lead quality. Partner with stakeholders and ML engineering to monitor live performance, iterate models, and identify new modeling opportunities to improve revenue and media efficiency.

Design, develop, and evaluate conversational AI agents and generative AI products. Collaborate with AI scientists, ML engineers, and Responsible AI/Model Validation teams to ensure state-of-the-art, ethical solutions and support deployment and integration of conversational systems.

Analyze large-scale structured and unstructured data, develop and validate data models and methodologies, and perform large-scale parallel processing in clustered computing environments (ECL/HPCC, Python, C, SQL) to produce mission-relevant analytic products supporting Intelligence Community objectives.

Develop and refine predictive models, perform exploratory data analysis, and generate AI-driven insights for DoD missions. Integrate multi-source data, apply geospatial analytics, iterate models via Agile sprints, produce performance and cost reports, and optimize analytic workflows for operational deployment.

Leads advanced analytics, machine learning, statistical modeling, and NLP solution development using healthcare and operational data. Builds scalable pipelines, visualizations, and deployed models on Google Cloud Platform, translates findings for clinical and executive leaders, designs experiments, and establishes performance metrics. Requires collaboration across clinical, technical, and data engineering teams, with occasional on-site travel for executive presentations.

Senior Data Scientist partnering with Product, Engineering, and Design teams to analyze user behavior, product performance, and marketplace dynamics. Responsibilities include developing metrics and reporting frameworks, designing experiments, diagnosing business trends, analyzing marketplace behavior, and aligning stakeholders on analytical priorities. The role uses SQL and Python alongside BigQuery, dbt Cloud, Airflow, Tableau, and Statsig, with a focus on product analytics, experimentation, and data-informed decision-making.

Senior individual contributor who drives product analytics, experimentation, and applied modeling. Owns growth and performance analyses, designs experiments with robust statistical evaluation, builds repeatable reporting, and partners with Product, Engineering, Operations, Clinical, and Finance to translate data into actionable product and operational decisions.

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.

Senior individual contributor owning complex end-to-end ML problems for supply chain and consumer applications. Build and deploy predictive models (demand forecasting, delivery ETA, recommendations), embed with engineering teams, define MLOps standards, and advise leadership on data science strategy and investments.

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.

Own and evolve revenue calibration models tying CX interactions to revenue, design causal inference and experimentation frameworks, build LLM-powered classification/NLP pipelines, productionize models with Analytics Engineers, define segmentation and behavioral signals, and ensure statistical rigor for executive reporting and regulatory defensibility.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.