Top Data Science Jobs in Richmond, VA

Build and maintain analytics data models, dashboards, and reports. Use SQL (Postgres, Trino, Iceberg) and dbt to power financial metrics. Perform deep-dive analyses using SQL and Python (Jupyter, Pandas) to answer business questions, operationalize data, and improve reporting and automation.

The Senior Data Scientist will design and deploy machine learning models, analyze complex datasets, develop analytical solutions, and mentor junior team members in a remote environment.

Lead development of digital twin and simulation models for warehouse operations, deploy AI-driven decision systems, build forecasting and optimization models, validate experiments linking operational metrics to financial impact, and partner with engineers, operations, and external AI/academic partners to scale innovations across fulfillment networks.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze customer data, design experiments, build models, and support data-driven decision-making across product, marketing, and customer experience teams.

The Lead Data Scientist will enhance analytics through predictive modeling and data engineering, focusing on quality, feature generation, and continuous learning.

Develop, implement, and maintain ALM and CCAR/PPNR models for balance sheet forecasting. Build customer behavior, prepayment, and deposit models; monitor performance, perform backtesting and sensitivity analysis; collaborate with Model Risk, Market Risk, Treasury, and validation teams; prepare documentation and materials for governance and senior leadership; support balance sheet optimization and regulatory initiatives.

Lead retention and churn efforts by building survival and lifecycle-state models, classifying churn reasons, creating personalized win-back and next-best-action interventions, optimizing offers/promos, designing uplift experiments, and owning production model lifecycle, monitoring, and MLOps across Product, CRM, Marketing, and Engineering.

The Senior Data Scientist leads data-driven initiatives, optimizing analytics for business decisions, mentoring staff, and ensuring data quality across healthcare projects.

As a Data Scientist at Sardine, you'll design and deploy data-driven solutions to prevent fraud, collaborating with clients and engineering teams to build and optimize machine learning models.

Lead development of foundational marketing ML models (customer intent, next-best-action, marketing mix and attribution). Own model selection, explainability, monitoring, decisioning layers, and translate outputs into actionable recommendations for marketing and product stakeholders while providing technical leadership.

Lead development of Vanta's business analytics function: build scalable product data assets, define measurement frameworks, use AI-assisted analytics, partner with cross-functional teams, and deliver executive-level recommendations to drive product and business decisions.

Design, evaluate, and productionize generative AI/ML solutions (RAG, agents, embeddings, retrieval). Build evaluation frameworks for hallucination detection, benchmark LLMs, optimize prompts/models, create datasets, fine-tune models, and collaborate to deploy and monitor enterprise-scale GenAI systems.

Lead end-to-end AI/ML initiatives to improve student retention, engagement, and enrollment. Architect and operate data pipelines, feature stores, and production ML systems; deploy, monitor, and automate models; run experimentation programing and measure business outcomes. Mentor team members and set technical standards across Product, Engineering, and CX.

Lead cross-functional teams to identify and implement revenue-driving strategies. Own revenue optimization, develop quantitative analyses (A/B testing, causal impact), improve data pipelines and tracking, embed AI into workflows, and present insights to leadership to scale and recover revenue.

Design and evaluate predictive and generative models, extract insights from disparate clinical and product data, build and partner on data pipelines, run rigorous evaluations and experiments, and deliver time-sensitive ad hoc analyses to product, engineering, and clinical stakeholders.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll build and deploy ML models for risk and fraud detection, leading technical efforts and collaborating cross-functionally.

Hands-on senior data scientist splitting work between SQL Server data engineering (ETL, pipeline modernization, data quality) and analytics delivery (Power BI semantic models, dashboards, statistical and predictive modeling). Duties include designing migration options, implementing Python-based cleansing and reproducible analytics, building ETL/deployment processes, responding to ad hoc leadership data requests, and documenting systems for stakeholders. Must obtain VA background/PIV and be a U.S. citizen.

Design, build, and deploy ML models across diverse use cases; work with managed cloud ML platforms and containerized solutions; collaborate with engineers on production integration and MLOps best practices; preprocess and analyze large datasets; mentor teammates and influence technical direction; translate complex ML concepts for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Lead end-to-end client ML engagements: scope problems, design, build, and deploy production ML solutions across cloud and containerized stacks. Lead and mentor small teams, manage client relationships, evaluate emerging tools, and ensure models are production-ready and explainable to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

As a Lead Data Scientist, you'll design experiments, build predictive models, and lead a team while shaping data-driven strategies to enhance AI deployments.

Design, develop, and deploy time-series and machine-learning forecasting models (ARIMA, SARIMA, ETS, XGBoost, LightGBM) for demand planning, inventory, and sales forecasting. Perform large-scale SQL data processing, operationalize models in cloud environments (Azure preferred), present insights, and lead client workshops.

The role involves building and validating Marketing Mix Models and geo-experiments, managing measurement infrastructure, and communicating insights to stakeholders.

Design, build, validate, deploy, and monitor machine learning and generative AI solutions for healthcare and life sciences. Work with EHR, claims, and registry data to produce clinical predictions, operational optimizations, and LLM-powered applications. Translate results for stakeholders, document best practices, and mentor client teams.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll lead projects leveraging data to enhance healthcare outcomes, mentor team members, and align data efforts with business goals.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze and optimize marketing funnels, build statistical models, conduct experiments, collaborate with teams, and mentor junior members.