Top Data Science Jobs in Sacramento, CA

Own Alpaca’s growth data strategy across acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and monetization. Build experimentation frameworks, causal and incrementality analyses, funnel and cohort models, LTV/CAC and churn forecasts, marketing measurement, governed growth metrics, and self-serve analytics. Partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and Finance to influence strategy and roadmaps, communicate insights to leadership, mentor data professionals, and establish standards for growth analytics.

Develop machine learning, AI, statistical, and predictive models using Snowflake and other data sources. Perform data extraction, cleansing, feature engineering, experimentation, visualization, and quality analysis. Partner with business and technical teams to deliver data products, conversational analytics, and actionable recommendations. Lead discovery sessions, communicate insights to nontechnical audiences, mentor analysts, and support enterprise data science projects.

Apply machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistical analysis, and causal inference to large datasets and product analytics. Develop insights and recommendations for recommendation systems and user experiences. Evaluate experiments through planning, monitoring, and post-analysis, build data pipelines and tools, and communicate complex findings to stakeholders to support business decisions.

Build and maintain Marketing Mix Models to measure marketing effectiveness, develop attribution metrics, and create optimization solutions for budget allocation and scenario planning. The role applies statistical, Bayesian, time series, regression, and optimization methods using Python and SQL. It partners with marketing and cross-functional teams to translate analytical findings into actionable business recommendations and influence investment decisions.

Own the analytical strategy for a digital primary care program by defining KPIs, building dbt data models, maintaining the Snowflake/Fivetran/dbt stack, and delivering analytics, forecasting, revenue modeling, dashboards, and AI-assisted workflows. Translate patient, EHR, clinical, and operational data into actionable insights for product, care delivery, operations, leadership, health systems, and payers.

Own the data science strategy and experimentation roadmap for ranking and relevance. Partner with product, engineering, ML, and commercial teams to improve marketplace outcomes through ranking models, experimentation, observational analysis, KPI frameworks, and commercial impact measurement. Balance advertiser, user, and platform value; guide launch and investment decisions; communicate findings to stakeholders; mentor scientists; and develop reusable analytical methods.

Develop and maintain predictive models for LTV, churn, retention, segmentation, personalization, and user acquisition decisions. Design experiments and causal analyses, apply LLMs to unstructured data, build AI-powered analytics tools, and productionize models with data engineering partners. Establish modeling standards, communicate insights to stakeholders, and mentor analysts and data scientists.

Lead data science measurement initiatives for media and advertising. Design experiments and causal models to measure incrementality, build marketing mix models, and productionize scalable data pipelines. Develop and deploy models using Python, R, SQL, and cloud platforms while ensuring data quality and privacy compliance. Deliver dashboards, automated reporting, and executive-ready insights, communicate findings to stakeholders, and mentor junior data scientists.

Build Boulevard’s Product Intelligence function by developing product data foundations, pipelines, dashboards, experimentation practices, and customer behavior models. Partner with Product, Engineering, and leadership to deliver actionable insights, self-serve analytics, and productionized models. Establish scalable processes, instrumentation standards, statistical workflows, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Develop statistical and machine learning models using soccer tracking and event data to support player recruitment decisions. Build spatio-temporal models, metrics, analyses, and interpretation tools; validate models; communicate findings to professional club clients; and partner with engineering on cloud deployment and production reliability. The role also includes code review, model maintenance, and advancing analytical methods.

Lead data science work embedded in the newsroom: identify high-impact problems, build and productionize predictive and explanatory models, own core metrics/measurement, apply causal inference and experimentation, translate findings for senior stakeholders, and mentor junior data team members to improve analytic standards and adoption.

Own the scientific and product roadmap for monetization data products, including audience creation, expansion, causal measurement, and audience improvement. Lead cross-functional delivery with Product, Engineering, Sales, and GTM; define measurement standards, evaluate trade-offs, support customer pilots, influence commercial decisions, and turn bespoke studies into scalable products. Remain hands-on in SQL, Python, statistical modeling, and causal inference while mentoring scientists and establishing reusable methods.

Own audience or measurement products for Fetch’s monetization business, translating advertiser goals and purchase behavior into predictive models, datasets, and causal studies. Build and validate audience expansion, measure advertising outcomes, assess bias and uncertainty, and improve products using campaign results. Partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, and GTM, present findings to customers, and develop reproducible analyses and production-ready assets.

Develop NLP, LLM, and machine learning pipelines to abstract clinical concepts from structured, unstructured, and multimodal healthcare data. Query healthcare source systems, curate and validate AI-ready datasets, support patient phenotyping and real-world evidence analyses, and deliver HIPAA-compliant data products. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, communicate findings to technical and clinical audiences, and improve data quality for customer AI applications. The role is remote with occasional quarterly travel.

Partner with clients to design healthcare data science solutions, curate multimodal clinical datasets, and conduct statistical, predictive, causal inference, real-world evidence, and AI/ML analyses. Responsibilities include querying EMR and other health data sources, creating statistical analysis plans, managing SQL and analytical programming, ensuring HIPAA-compliant data quality, documenting findings, and presenting results to technical, clinical, and executive audiences.

Lead development of statistical and machine learning models for time-series, geospatial, kinematic, and radar data. Build analytic solutions, training datasets, ETL workflows, forecasting and anomaly-detection models, simulations, visualizations, and performance metrics. Integrate multi-source sensor data, enhance algorithms, document processes, and collaborate with engineers, analysts, mission partners, and stakeholders in an agile environment.

Build and deploy NLP and machine learning models that analyze student and educator text. Develop classical ML and LLM-based features, production inference systems, validation and monitoring pipelines, data-drift detection, retraining workflows, and responsible AI guardrails. Partner with product, engineering, and data science teams to improve real-time education technology features while ensuring accuracy, fairness, privacy, and reliability.

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.

Develop and lead data science and machine learning initiatives, including exploratory analysis, predictive modeling, experimentation, recommendation systems, user classification, model monitoring, and production deployment. Partner with product, marketing, analytics, and engineering teams to convert user insights into automated services. Manage projects throughout their lifecycle, support strategic ML planning, and deliver solutions for personalization, cross-selling, and retargeting.

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.

Build end-to-end data science, machine learning, forecasting, time-series, and AI solutions for supply chain and manufacturing operations. Develop analytical datasets, ETL/ELT workflows, dashboards, APIs, and production models using Python, SQL, cloud platforms, and modern data technologies. Partner with business and technical stakeholders to improve inventory, demand forecasting, delivery, production planning, cost, and operational efficiency. The role owns solutions from problem definition through deployment, monitoring, adoption, and continuous improvement.

Builds a talent network of experienced data scientists for potential future AI evaluation projects. Responsibilities may include creating grading criteria, evaluating AI-generated or human-produced data science work, writing evidence-based justifications, applying consistent judgment, and incorporating reviewer feedback. Candidates should have professional data science experience, strong Python and SQL skills, expertise in statistical modeling, machine learning, experimentation, causal inference, and excellent technical communication.

Lead end-to-end pricing experimentation and strategy for consumer and business products. Design and analyze A/B tests, build pricing models and production-grade data pipelines, partner cross-functionally, and present actionable recommendations to senior leadership.

Develop statistical and machine learning models for clinical trial enrollment, patient matching, forecasting, and trial management. Monitor model performance and bias, build scalable data pipelines using AWS services and dbt, and ensure compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and privacy standards. Collaborate with ML engineering, product, and clinical research stakeholders to integrate models into practical healthcare solutions.

Drive product-led growth through rigorous analysis of onboarding, activation, adoption, retention, expansion, and monetization. Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Sales to design experiments, analyze funnels and cohorts, identify behavioral signals, build metrics and dashboards, improve instrumentation, and translate uncertain or incomplete data into actionable product recommendations.