Top Data Science Jobs in Richmond, VA

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.

Deploy and validate NEXUS in customer environments, perform end-to-end data and feature engineering, benchmark against baselines (XGBoost/LightGBM), optimize models for business impact, handle last-mile integrations (VPC/on‑prem/air-gapped), and translate field insights into product improvements while liaising with stakeholders.

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.

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.

Design, validate, and deploy scalable statistical and distributional models for enterprise consumer analytics. Implement rigorous methodologies, convert ad-hoc analyses into version-controlled analytical libraries, and partner with Data Engineering to optimize performance and scale compute workloads (including cloud/Databricks). Deliver reproducible analytics powering dashboards and LLM-driven applications, with a focus on panel and transaction-level consumer data.

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

The Senior Data Scientist will develop and maintain ML models and analytical frameworks to enhance customer experiences at CarMax, collaborating with Product and Operations teams to drive business-critical decisions and improve operational effectiveness.

Develop, validate, and improve machine learning models (regression, classification, forecasting, optimization). Prepare data, perform feature engineering, train and evaluate models, and support deployment with Data/ML Engineering. Communicate results, document methods, and collaborate on experiments and cross-functional initiatives.

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.

Design, build, evaluate, and deploy predictive ML models across regression, classification, NLP, computer vision, and time-series problems. Perform data cleaning, feature engineering, EDA, model selection, tuning, explanation (SHAP, feature importance), and collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to operationalize and monitor models in production.

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.

The Data Scientist will develop predictive models, analyze geophysical data, and collaborate with geoscientists to enhance exploration programs, focusing on mineral deposits.

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

Design, build, and own large-scale data pipelines and ML data curation for multimodal (text, image, audio, video) model training. Partner with research teams to ingest, label, filter, augment, store, and ensure dataset quality, compliance, and scalability. Optimize distributed data processing for training, prototype dataset tools, and integrate research advances into production systems.

The Senior Data Scientist will lead innovative data science efforts, leveraging advanced analytics, visualization, and insights from complex datasets to boost productivity.

Build marketing data science models and decision systems for spend allocation, channel measurement, forecasting, experimentation, and growth optimization. Unify marketing, retail, revenue, and product data; develop dashboards and analytical products; apply AI/ML and causal inference; and translate complex analysis into actionable recommendations for executives and cross-functional teams. The role also includes improving data quality, mentoring, documentation, and technical leadership.

Design and implement advanced ML models for real-time forecasting and decision support, ensure data provenance and lineage, integrate federated geospatial and multi-format data, produce ROM and quarterly cost/resource reports, and apply Agile sprint practices to deliver mission-aligned analytics for DoD/IC customers.

Build, ship, and own end-to-end ML models for vendor matching, order routing, and supply-chain optimization. Partner with data engineering to productionize models, quantify impact, document work, and implement decision logic components toward agentic AI in a fast-moving healthcare startup environment.

Lead development of time-series and econometric models (ARIMA, VAR, state-space, WLS, panel data) and Bayesian probabilistic frameworks. Use causal inference and stochastic processes to produce actionable insights, work with large datasets on Databricks, communicate results to stakeholders, and mentor junior team members.

Design, build, and deploy production-grade generative AI applications: orchestrate multi-agent systems, implement advanced RAG with vector DBs, fine-tune and host LLMs, optimize GenAI workflows, and deliver scalable FastAPI-based backend services with Docker and monitoring.

Design, build, and scale production Generative AI systems: multi-agent orchestration, advanced RAG with vector databases, LLM integration and fine-tuning, scalable FastAPI backends, Dockerized deployment, monitoring, and GenAI optimization for latency, cost, and reliability.

Design, build, and deploy production-grade generative AI systems: multi-agent orchestration, advanced RAG with vector databases, integrate/swap LLMs, fine-tune models, optimize prompts and latency, and containerize services with monitoring and CI/CD.

Design, build, and deploy production Generative AI applications: orchestrate multi-agent workflows, implement advanced RAG with vector DBs, integrate and fine-tune LLMs, develop scalable FastAPI/async backends, containerize with Docker, and optimize GenAI systems for latency, cost, and reliability.