Top Data Science Jobs in Richmond, VA

Develop and deploy machine learning models for manufacturing use cases including predictive quality, machine failure prediction, and time-series pattern discovery. Work directly with customers to scope problems, validate solutions in live deployments, and translate successful analyses into product features. Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer success teams while applying statistics, optimization, generative AI, and agentic AI to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Own revenue-focused data science from opportunity sizing through production ML. Investigate and measure product changes, build and operate batch and online ML systems for personalization, experimentation, and automation, and partner cross-functionally to integrate models into user-facing products. Establish monitoring, lineage, reproducibility, and security practices; improve data pipelines; mentor data scientists; and define ML development best practices while using AI tools to accelerate delivery.

Design and deploy optimization and machine learning models for allocating scarce parts and resources across competing programs. Responsibilities include formulating MILP and constraint optimization models, forecasting demand and supply risk, building data pipelines, validating outputs, communicating tradeoffs to stakeholders, mentoring junior data scientists, and partnering with software engineers to productionize scalable services.

Leads the data science platform and machine learning strategy, building data marts, predictive models, MLOps infrastructure, and analytics capabilities. Analyzes healthcare claims, clinical, workflow, and operational data to risk-stratify patients, assess clinical program impact, support dashboards, and improve patient and provider engagement. Collaborates with clinical, operations, finance, product, executive, and technology teams while serving as a trusted analytics expert for a business workstream.

Lead product-focused data science and machine learning initiatives, including exploratory analysis, production model development, evaluation frameworks, generative AI, graph-based machine learning, recommendation systems, and personalization. Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to deliver high-impact solutions, influence strategy, and communicate insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders. The hybrid role requires four days per week in the Greater Boston area.

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.

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 performance marketing data science initiatives focused on lead segmentation, bidding optimization, targeting, and marketing spend allocation. Develop and deploy production-ready machine learning systems, establish research and ML operations roadmaps, build monitoring frameworks, and identify high-impact opportunities. Partner with engineering, marketing, vendors, and executives while mentoring data scientists and machine learning engineers and promoting rigorous, maintainable, and reproducible practices.

Lead data science for Mozilla’s advertising business by identifying high-impact opportunities, owning complex analyses, developing measurement and experimentation frameworks, analyzing revenue and performance, and translating findings into recommendations for technical partners and executives. Partner across Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and leadership to support business decisions in a fast-moving environment while balancing analytical rigor, pragmatism, and user privacy.

Lead data science partnership for Mozilla’s advertising business, identifying high-impact opportunities and owning complex analytics end to end. Develop measurement frameworks, experimentation strategies, instrumentation, and reporting for advertising products. Analyze revenue and performance, evaluate trade-offs, and communicate clear recommendations and uncertainty to technical teams and senior executives.

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.

Conduct workforce analytics and applied organizational research on attrition, mobility, engagement, performance, and planning. Analyze and validate HR data using SQL, R, or Python; apply statistical testing and regression; translate business questions into actionable insights; and communicate findings through visualizations, reports, and presentations. Partner with HR stakeholders while maintaining the accuracy, documentation, confidentiality, and integrity of sensitive workforce data.

Develops advanced analytics for national security using large, disparate datasets. Responsibilities include designing data exploitation methods, researching sponsor inquiries, developing custom searches, applying classification, regression, clustering, and anomaly detection algorithms, and supporting threat hunting and malicious-activity detection. The role also involves statistical analysis, data visualization for nontechnical audiences, and prototyping data engineering pipelines.

Develop and deploy machine learning algorithms that improve real-time device identification and fraud detection. Own data science projects from experimentation through production, including supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning, real-time inference, training automation, exploratory analysis, and model-to-service integration. Contribute to engineering best practices, collaborate within a global remote team, and participate in a shared on-call rotation.

Design, develop, and deploy ML, NLP, and generative AI solutions to improve scientific discovery. Build retrieval, recommendation, ranking, and RAG systems; fine-tune and evaluate LLMs; create evaluation frameworks; build scalable data pipelines; collaborate with cross-functional teams and produce production-quality Python code to deliver reliable, impactful AI systems for research use.

Design, develop, and deploy ML, NLP, and generative-AI solutions (including LLMs and RAG) to improve search, retrieval, recommendation, and question-answering across scientific publications and datasets. Build scalable pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and production-quality Python code while collaborating with engineering, product, UX, and domain experts to measure and improve model reliability, relevance, and user impact.

Assist senior data scientists with data collection, preprocessing, cleaning, and basic statistical analysis. Support model development, perform basic visualizations, and document processes and findings while learning and applying data science techniques.

Lead data science projects from ideation through enterprise impact, building scalable and well-tested solutions that improve healthcare outcomes. Apply probability, statistics, machine learning, SQL, and Python to develop data-driven products and insights. Partner with stakeholders, assess product performance, identify strategic improvements, mitigate risks, and mentor teammates while aligning initiatives with business objectives.

Leads analytical and scientific strategy for Fetch’s Play and Rewarded Apps businesses. Develops predictive and machine learning models, experimentation frameworks, causal analyses, feature pipelines, and measurement systems using Python and SQL. Partners with Product, Marketing, Engineering, and business leaders to improve monetization, engagement, retention, personalization, and marketplace outcomes. Translates complex findings into strategic recommendations, mentors data scientists and analysts, and establishes analytical best practices.

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

Develop and migrate reporting assets from SAP BusinessObjects to QlikView and Qlik Sense. Analyze and rebuild Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and universes; debug legacy and new reports; optimize SQL, scripts, expressions, data models, and load processes; validate output accuracy; document migration logic; and collaborate with stakeholders on requirements and report specifications.

Lead development and productionization of telematics pricing and underwriting models. Responsibilities span statistical modeling, feature engineering, dataset and pipeline development, model deployment, monitoring, data quality validation, troubleshooting, regulatory support, and collaboration with pricing, actuarial, product, engineering, and compliance teams.

Leads consumer personalization strategy and production development for recommendations, ranking, search, browse, carts, marketing, and agentic AI experiences. Builds recommender systems, learning-to-rank models, LLM agents, evaluation frameworks, and experimentation programs. Partners with Product and Engineering on deployment, monitoring, and model quality while mentoring senior data scientists, setting technical direction, shaping roadmaps, and communicating trade-offs to executives.

Develop and optimize machine learning and statistical models for fraud detection and anti-money laundering. Analyze large datasets to identify fraudulent patterns, build scalable data pipelines and features, evaluate model performance, and collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams. Communicate insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders while maintaining data privacy and security compliance. The role offers significant ownership in building Oscilar’s early machine learning stack within a remote-first startup.