Top Senior Data Science Jobs in Sacramento, CA

Lead product analytics to inform strategy and optimize user experience: translate business questions into analysis, build reliable analytics infrastructure, run A/B tests and ML/statistical analyses, track funnels and cohorts, support 0-to-1 product launches, and communicate actionable insights to cross-functional teams.

Lead design and delivery of scalable ML systems across the full lifecycle for recommendations, demand forecasting, targeting, and personalization. Collaborate with engineers, product, and stakeholders to set architecture, metrics, and production best practices; mentor data scientists; lead experimentation and deploy/monitor models using cloud and MLOps tooling.

Design and train LLMs and agentic systems for cybersecurity using RLHF/RLAIF and supervised fine-tuning. Build agent architectures, tooling, retrieval/memory, and evaluation pipelines with rigorous statistical benchmarking. Optimize prompts and inference, collaborate with engineers to productionize prototypes, and drive research on agent planning, safety, and reliability.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead AI risk assessments, coordinate with stakeholders, and ensure effective AI governance practices for safe financial application deployment.

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.

The Senior Data Scientist will build models and analyses, design experiments, integrate datasets, and leverage AI for improved workflows and insights in data science.

Lead AML model development, optimization, validation, and governance for transaction and customer screening across banking, brokerage, and lending. Build ML/statistical models, maintain vendor solutions, ensure regulatory compliance, document methodologies, produce AML dashboards, and support audits, risk assessments, and stakeholder communications.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you'll design and optimize ML systems for claims handling automation, collaborating with product and engineering teams.

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.

Partner with Marketing as the embedded data science lead to build marketing measurement, attribution, LTV/ROAS/CAC models, run experiments, analyze the full funnel, create forecasts and dashboards, and influence channel strategy and budget allocation.

As the Staff Data Scientist, you will lead the data science function, driving strategy, mentoring peers, and shaping product direction through advanced analytics and experimentation.

Consult as a fractional data scientist for hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices. Lead data science initiatives: build infrastructure, develop and deploy models, create portfolio dashboards, monitor post-deployment performance, and partner with investment teams to turn data into actionable investment insights. Advise on vendor selection, data quality, technology stacks, KPIs, and governance.

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.

Develop ML features, models, and analytical methods from device, network, browser, mobile, session, and behavioral telemetry to detect fraud and improve identity confidence. Handle large-scale, noisy, high-cardinality data, design validations, assess drift and leakage, collaborate with engineering/product/risk for production rollout, document models and features, and mentor junior team members.

The Staff Data Scientist will lead analytical strategies for Firefox, focusing on product growth, measurement frameworks, and mentoring data scientists while guiding data-driven decisions.

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.

The Data Scientist will develop tools for enhancing signature management capabilities, integrate diverse data holdings, and leverage AI/ML solutions for operational support.

Develop a tool to enhance signature management capabilities and integrate diverse data holdings, leveraging AI/ML solutions to meet operational needs.

Customer-facing data scientist advising customers on experiment design, statistical methodology, and experimentation architecture; running and analyzing A/B tests; building scalable experimentation programs; creating repeatable frameworks and technical enablement; partnering with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Engineering to drive customer success.

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.

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.

Lead development of orthomosaic tile imagery products for FireSat and SBEM: design and implement scalable mosaicking, orthorectification, and radiometric normalization algorithms; write production-ready code; author technical and customer-facing documentation; validate scientific quality; engage stakeholders and act as product owner for SBEM granule product; collaborate with engineers and scientists.

Lead radiometric calibration and image processing for multispectral infrared instruments, commission FireSat satellites, and develop/execute SBEM calibration plans. Implement production-ready pipelines, perform R&D to improve calibration, write production-quality code, and collaborate cross-functionally to maintain operational remote sensing data products and services.

Lead and grow a 4–6 person data science team, set the roadmap, deliver marketplace forecasting and production ML (matching, scoring), embed data science cross-functionally, and establish modeling, experimentation, and monitoring best practices.

Lead the technical development and automation of enrollment forecasting models, collaborating with various departments to enhance decision-making and forecast accuracy.