Top Data Science Jobs in Richmond, VA

Develop and refine credit risk strategies, rules, monitoring tools, and performance dashboards. Use SQL, Python, statistics, and data science to analyze complex datasets, identify risk trends, optimize processes, and influence business decisions. Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to implement strategies across the customer lifecycle, while mentoring junior team members.

Evaluate AI model outputs on data science, statistics, machine learning, experimentation, and quantitative reasoning problems. Create expert prompts, datasets, and reference solutions; identify statistical and methodological errors; and provide structured feedback to improve model performance. The role requires Python, machine learning, statistics, data analysis, experimentation, Pandas, and data modeling expertise.

Lead the design, development, deployment, monitoring, and improvement of interconnected customer lifetime value models covering conversion, retention, premiums, and claim losses. Serve as a hands-on technical leader, guide modeling strategy, evaluate experiments and business impact, partner with engineering and business teams, support production ML systems, establish technical standards, and coach other data scientists.

Evaluate AI model outputs on data science, statistics, machine learning, experimentation, and quantitative problems. Develop expert prompts, datasets, and reference solutions; identify statistical and methodological errors; and provide structured feedback to improve model performance. The role requires Python, machine learning, statistics, data analysis, experimentation, Pandas, and data modeling skills.

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.

Build and validate forecasting, optimization, anomaly detection, and measurement models using complex customer data. Perform exploratory analysis, experiments, backtesting, and error analysis; partner with ML and data engineers to productionize models, features, evaluation pipelines, and monitoring. Translate business questions into analytical recommendations and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders. The role is hybrid in New York City or remote in the U.S. with monthly travel to New York.

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.

Conducts multi-omics analyses of organoid and normal tissue data, including single-cell and bulk RNA sequencing, proteomics, and metabolomics. Develops computational pipelines for processing, quality control, statistical analysis, and organoid benchmarking. Collaborates with wet-lab teams on experimental design and protocol optimization, interprets findings, contributes to manuscripts, and presents research at scientific conferences.

Develop data pipelines, organize and analyze structured and unstructured government data, create visualizations, build AI agents and lightweight automations, and occasionally develop predictive models. The role involves consulting with senior stakeholders, communicating actionable insights, supporting data capacity building, and collaborating with product, design, engineering, and research teams in a remote government-services environment.

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.

Analyze recruiting and interview data to improve AI-powered candidate evaluation systems. Build metrics, statistical and machine learning models, LLM evaluation datasets, experiments, dashboards, and reproducible data workflows. Collaborate with product and engineering teams on candidate matching, interview quality, recruiting analytics, bias detection, and AI system improvements.

Develop marketplace intelligence, forecasting, ranking, recommendation, personalization, and experimentation models for Airbnb’s search and marketplace products. Partner with product and engineering teams to launch AI-driven improvements, build scalable modeling pipelines, evaluate product changes, and guide technical direction. The role requires causal inference, machine learning, strong SQL and Python or R skills, cross-functional communication, and autonomous leadership of data science roadmaps.

Develop machine learning and statistical models to identify, measure, and manage credit and fraud risk. Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions, analyze large application and transaction datasets, deploy end-to-end models, and improve risk decision-making. The role requires advanced Python or R and SQL skills, expertise in fraud and underwriting models, model deployment, statistical methods, and mentoring junior data scientists.

Supports the design, validation, and operationalization of predictive, machine learning, and AI models. Analyzes structured and unstructured data, develops algorithms, validates outcomes, creates visualizations, and communicates findings to stakeholders. Collaborates cross-functionally to integrate solutions and prepares model pipelines for business use. The role also involves statistical analysis, NLP, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and research into emerging technologies.

Develop and maintain enterprise databases, data models, metadata frameworks, governance processes, ETL workflows, and data quality systems. Perform forecasting, scenario analysis, and risk assessment using complex datasets. Build automation tools, support data integration, recommend improvements, and collaborate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders. The role supports U.S. Navy data systems and requires active Secret clearance.

Build and own marketing measurement frameworks using media mix modeling, incrementality testing, and multi-touch attribution. Design experiments, conduct power analyses, validate models, reconcile measurement sources, and translate findings into client budget recommendations. Clean and integrate advertising, analytics, and commerce data, develop reusable code and templates, present statistical results to technical and nontechnical audiences, and support multiple clients across varied measurement environments.

Own Junction’s data science research, statistical modeling, experimentation, and evaluation strategy across diagnostics, clinical workflows, and AI-enabled products. Build predictive and decision-support models, establish measurement and quality frameworks, partner with engineering to deploy reliable systems, and communicate findings to technical and executive stakeholders. The role combines strategic roadmap ownership with hands-on analytical work in a high-ambiguity startup environment.

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.

The Data Scientist will transform real-world, clinical, and preclinical healthcare data into reproducible datasets, analyses, and evidence supporting medical-device research and regulatory needs. Responsibilities include cohort development, data-quality validation, statistical programming, study design support, analysis plans, clinical and post-market analyses, documentation, and communicating findings to technical and nontechnical stakeholders. The role collaborates with Scientific, Clinical, R&D, Regulatory, Quality, IT, and external data partners.

Conduct actuarial and predictive analysis supporting product development, rating, reserving, pricing, financial analysis, and process improvements. Develop predictive models, multivariate analyses, tools, workflows, and scalable data processes. Collaborate with actuaries, product managers, vendors, and business units to translate complex data into strategic business solutions while ensuring accuracy and regulatory compliance.

Evaluates AI-generated data science and quantitative reasoning outputs; develops prompts, datasets, reference solutions, and objective evaluation benchmarks. Identifies statistical errors, flawed methodologies, and unsupported conclusions while providing structured feedback to improve model accuracy. Responsibilities include dataset validation, statistical and quantitative assessment, quality assurance, technical documentation, and clear communication of analytical findings.

Designs challenging data science and machine learning tasks, builds reproducible environments and verified reference solutions, and develops automated tests and evaluation frameworks for AI-generated code. The role analyzes AI agent performance, identifies bugs, leakage, overfitting, and methodological weaknesses, documents technical requirements, and iteratively improves task reliability and complexity.

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.

Develop and deploy machine learning, AI, causal inference, and statistical solutions for advertising measurement products. Build prototypes, conduct experiments, analyze large-scale data, and advance attribution capabilities from early concepts through production. Collaborate with engineering, product, analysts, and account teams to improve measurement and marketing ROI. Responsibilities include owning measurement products, applying Bayesian and marketing models, writing production code, and communicating methodologies and findings to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Develop AI and machine learning solutions for fraud, anomaly detection, semantic search, entity resolution, and investigative analytics. Build and operationalize models across structured and unstructured data using AWS data lakehouse services, generative AI, NLP, graph analytics, and document intelligence. Evaluate model performance, explainability, monitoring, and risk scoring while supporting production integration, dashboards, and investigative workflows. Collaborate with technical teams, investigators, stakeholders, and federal clients in an Agile environment.