Top Data Science Jobs in San Diego, CA

Leads the design, development, and deployment of scalable AI, generative AI, and machine learning solutions. Oversees data infrastructure, integration, data quality, and advanced analytics while managing client engagements and executive relationships. Drives business development, strategic direction, innovation, and AI-driven automation. Mentors teams, develops future leaders, and fosters collaboration, integrity, and client satisfaction across complex projects.

Leads AI and GenAI data science workstreams for client engagements. Develops machine learning, deep learning, and NLP models; applies statistical and predictive modeling; designs scalable data science workflows and pipelines; evaluates model performance; communicates insights through visualizations and executive narratives; coaches teams; and supports responsible AI governance.

Leads payer healthcare data science and operations consulting initiatives, using business analytics to improve payer processes and performance. Manages teams, client relationships, project resources, strategic planning, process optimization, quality standards, and operational transformation. Coaches junior staff, promotes innovative technologies, and identifies opportunities to enhance operational excellence and business outcomes.

Lead pricing modeling and experimentation to optimize margin, conversion, and retention. Build elasticity and willingness-to-pay models, run causal and bandit experiments, decompose merchant economics, and develop agentic deal tooling. Own end-to-end data pipelines, ETL, monitoring, and visualization. Evaluate AI systems for accuracy, bias, and drift, and partner with cross-functional teams to translate results into pricing strategy and automation.

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.

Develop data science solutions for payments across Square and Cash App. Build AI-powered tools, ETL pipelines, dashboards, machine learning models, experiments, and cloud data systems. Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations to improve payment success, cost efficiency, risk mitigation, and decision-making. Translate business needs into practical solutions, research questions independently, and operationalize data processes and infrastructure.

Develop data tools, AI automations, ETL pipelines, dashboards, and machine learning models for payments. Analyze experiments, optimize payment performance and costs, mitigate risk, maintain data systems and cloud infrastructure, and translate business needs into actionable solutions while partnering with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations.

Own product analytics for a healthcare platform by translating business questions into research plans, uncovering insights, modeling feature impacts, defining success criteria, and leading A/B testing. Partner with Product, Data Engineering, Finance, Clinical, and Operations teams to influence roadmap decisions, improve provider experience and quality, and optimize marketplace performance.

Develops and deploys production machine learning models and data science solutions for business, legal, investigative, and regulatory needs. Designs AI evaluation frameworks assessing bias, accuracy, reliability, and performance; analyzes structured and unstructured data; builds pipelines and testing tools; and translates legal and business requirements into technical solutions. The role collaborates with lawyers, clients, and cross-functional teams, manages concurrent engagements, communicates insights, and supports revenue-generating professional-services delivery.

Develop algorithms, predictive models, quantitative analyses, and visualizations from structured and unstructured data. Apply statistical programming, data mining, machine learning, AI, and NLP techniques to solve client challenges across public and private sectors. Collaborate with clients to understand analytical needs, explore and clean data, and translate complex datasets into actionable insights. The role requires the ability to obtain a Secret clearance and a bachelor's degree.

Drive product and business impact through statistical modeling, experiment design, Bayesian marketing analysis, machine learning, NLP, LLM applications, and classifier implementation. Build growth metrics, monitoring pipelines, evaluation datasets, and AI trigger systems across search and Duck.ai. Analyze privacy-constrained data, deploy production-grade models, optimize SQL queries, and lead complex projects from scoping through production with minimal direction.

Lead the development of statistical and machine learning models for time-series and geospatial data. Build analytic solutions, datasets, ETL workflows, forecasting and anomaly-detection models, simulations, visualizations, and reports. Evaluate algorithm performance, optimize classifiers, document processes, and collaborate with engineers, analysts, mission partners, and stakeholders to deliver reliable mission-focused software and data capabilities.

Develops statistical and machine learning models for kinematic behavior detection using live, historical, time-series, and geospatial data. Responsibilities include data integration, ETL, feature engineering, forecasting, anomaly detection, algorithm evaluation, simulation, visualization, reporting, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also contributes to mission-focused software applications, APIs, data workflows, code reviews, troubleshooting, and agile development in a remote-first environment.

Lead statistical and machine learning model development for time-series and geospatial data supporting the FALCON mission. Responsibilities include feature engineering, forecasting, anomaly detection, ETL, dataset creation, algorithm evaluation, simulation, data visualization, reporting, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also contributes to software applications, APIs, data pipelines, code reviews, troubleshooting, and iterative agile development.

Leads enterprise data and analytics, advising government leadership on research methods, study design, program evaluation, and decision support. Oversees data scientists and engineers, establishes analytical and governance standards, directs advanced statistical and predictive analyses, develops dashboards and readiness metrics, and ensures reproducible, compliant methodologies. Requires strong Python or R, SQL, supervisory, research, and stakeholder communication skills, plus a current Top Secret clearance and ability to obtain Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Develop advanced analytical models, predictive forecasting solutions, AI/ML capabilities, dashboards, and visualization tools supporting Navy Reserve readiness and operational optimization. Apply statistical analysis, machine learning, data mining, and predictive modeling to identify risks and improve decisions. Collaborate with technical teams and government stakeholders, evaluate emerging analytics technologies, communicate findings, and potentially lead analytic workstreams and mentor junior staff.

Develops predictive models, quantitative analyses, visualizations, and machine learning or NLP solutions from structured and unstructured data. Collaborates with clients to understand analytical needs, cleans and explores data, develops algorithms, and translates complex datasets into actionable insights. The role requires a master’s degree in Analytics or Data Science and eligibility for a Secret clearance.

Build and scale first-line risk control monitoring systems using statistical analysis, automated workflows, and reusable data science modules. Define risk metrics, investigate control performance, establish thresholds and guardrails, and translate analyses into monitoring applications. Partner with risk, compliance, product, and engineering teams to improve governance, identify monitoring gaps, and support decision-making. Lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives while communicating findings, limitations, and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.

Build and scale first-line risk control performance monitoring for financial products. Develop metrics, key risk indicators, statistical baselines, thresholds, automated workflows, and reusable analytical modules. Partner with risk, compliance, product, and engineering teams to improve governance, identify monitoring gaps, evaluate control effectiveness, and support decisions. Lead ambiguous initiatives from definition through adoption while communicating findings, limitations, and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.

Early-career Data Scientist supporting supply chain transformation through machine learning, forecasting, statistical modeling, data preparation, dashboards, and AI solutions. The role addresses inventory optimization, demand forecasting, production planning, delivery performance, and cost reduction. Responsibilities include developing analytical datasets and workflows with Python and SQL, evaluating models, integrating enterprise data, supporting cloud-based analytics, and communicating insights to business stakeholders in a manufacturing environment.

Leads the full machine learning lifecycle for foundational personalization and recommendation models, including client and item representations, embeddings, retrieval, ranking, and generative approaches. Designs experiments, evaluates business impact, deploys and operates production models, and works with large-scale behavioral, transactional, textual, and visual data. The role also involves technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, mentoring, and establishing modeling and engineering best practices.

Develop marketing effectiveness analytics using Marketing Mix Modeling, attribution, customer lifetime value, experimentation, and causal inference. Build automated, scalable model pipelines, insight-ready datasets, and self-serve dashboards. Analyze campaigns, support marketing strategy, communicate findings to executives, and lead high-impact projects independently while collaborating cross-functionally.

Own analytical strategy and develop AI/ML models for Zip’s financial products, including cash and rent advances. Lead ambiguous 0-to-1 initiatives using bank transaction data, establish evaluation frameworks, guide risk and growth decisions, and deliver models from experimentation through production. Provide technical direction to data scientists, mentor junior team members, collaborate with engineering, and advise senior stakeholders on model trade-offs. The role requires strong financial services, statistical, research, and machine learning expertise.

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.

Develops and deploys analytical and machine learning solutions, leading exploratory data analysis, statistical modeling, feature engineering, scalable data pipelines, validation frameworks, and model optimization. Collaborates with product and engineering teams on proofs of concept and production integration, evaluates emerging technologies, and communicates insights through visualizations and presentations. Requires Python, SQL, cloud or containerized environments, ML pipeline experience, U.S. citizenship, and the ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance.