Top Senior Data Science Jobs in San Diego, CA

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.

Leads teams in designing and deploying scalable AI and machine learning solutions for consulting clients. Responsibilities include data wrangling, complex analysis, data modeling, AI system implementation, data pipeline and infrastructure oversight, deep learning, neural networks, data quality validation, and stakeholder collaboration. The manager coaches team members, manages performance, supports innovation, and applies Python, Java, and cloud technologies to build production-ready AI applications.

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.

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.

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 clinically grounded data science and AI solutions using clinical, laboratory, commercial, and enterprise data. Responsibilities include machine learning and statistical modeling, generative AI, literature intelligence, exploratory analysis, feature engineering, validation, documentation, and deployment support. The role leads analytical workstreams and research collaborations, partners with clinical and business stakeholders, and communicates findings through reports, presentations, and decision-support tools while maintaining reproducibility, privacy, security, and audit-ready practices.

Manage NASA aerospace portfolio data through cataloging, metadata standards, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, data lineage, provenance, classification, and quality documentation. Evaluate and implement an enterprise data catalog, integrate it with Dagster, establish metadata and freshness metrics, onboard and retire datasets, and drive adoption across technical and program teams. Translate between data professionals and program stakeholders while improving data discoverability, trust, and usability.

Lead the design, development, deployment, monitoring, and improvement of interconnected customer lifetime value models covering conversion, retention, premiums, and claim losses. Serve as a hands-on technical leader, guide modeling strategy, evaluate experiments and business impact, partner with engineering and business teams, support production ML systems, establish technical standards, and coach other data scientists.

Leads development of statistical and machine learning models for time-series, geospatial, kinematic, and radar data. Responsibilities include feature engineering, forecasting, anomaly detection, data integration, ETL, visualization, algorithm evaluation, simulation, dataset creation, and stakeholder communication. The role also contributes to mission-focused software applications, APIs, data pipelines, documentation, code reviews, and agile development while requiring an active Top Secret or CBP/DHS suitability clearance.

Set the technical vision for data science, lead complex statistical and machine learning model development from concept through production, and architect scalable modeling platforms and pipelines. Develop credit risk, pricing, and loss forecasting models; establish model governance standards; partner with senior leaders; mentor data scientists; and communicate technical strategy to executives. The role emphasizes production deployment, monitoring, cloud architecture, and high-impact decision-making across the business.

Analyzes financial and ERP data using statistical analysis, data mining, predictive modeling, and advanced algorithms. Supports Oracle financial shared services, data conversion, business continuity, disaster recovery, and contingency planning. Develops analytical outputs that improve agency KPIs and identifies trends and business opportunities. Requires collaboration with systems, network, hosting, and disaster recovery teams, plus participation in COOP exercises and Oracle environment upgrades.

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.

Serve as Netflix Animation Studios’ founding data scientist, developing measurement frameworks, forecasting and scenario-planning models, dashboards, and data products for slate planning, production efficiency, workforce allocation, and strategic decision-making. Partner with studio leadership, data scientists, analytics engineers, and data engineers to establish data foundations, define metrics, analyze operational drivers, and translate complex findings into actionable recommendations.

Leads advanced data science and machine learning initiatives for healthcare payment integrity, including fraud, waste, and abuse detection, anomaly identification, predictive modeling, statistical analysis, dashboards, and recovery investigations. Provides technical leadership, mentors analysts, integrates production analytical solutions, collaborates with legal and business stakeholders, and presents findings to leadership. Requires healthcare expertise, advanced SQL and programming skills, and knowledge of claims, billing, reimbursement, and program integrity.

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.

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.

Applies statistical analysis, data processing, visualization, and modeling to complex structured and unstructured datasets. Develops data solutions using Python, R, SQL, and related technologies; creates dashboards and reports; maintains data integrity and governance; and collaborates with stakeholders on business or mission objectives. The role also requires cloud-native application deployment using Kubernetes, Docker or Podman, Helm, Git workflows, Linux, configuration management, and software release processes, with preferred experience in microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud-native architectures.

Design and analyze rigorous messaging experiments using A/B testing and causal inference. Build measurement frameworks, data pipelines, dashboards, automated analyses, and scalable data solutions for messaging campaigns. Partner with CRM, Product, Algorithms, and Engineering teams to translate ambiguous business questions into actionable recommendations and experimentation standards. Support messaging strategy across channels, timing, content, targeting, and new business verticals.

Develop and productionize machine learning models and predictive analytics using Python, Databricks, PySpark, SQL, and Delta Lake. Build scalable data science workflows, resolve healthcare data quality and entity-resolution issues, and apply Master Data Management practices. Partner with engineering, product, analytics, and business teams to deliver governed, HIPAA-compliant solutions. Perform exploratory analysis, feature engineering, model evaluation, deployment, documentation, and data lineage management for healthcare and member engagement initiatives.

Leads and mentors junior developers while designing, modifying, testing, and deploying data solutions in Palantir Foundry. Builds data models and reports from ERP and legacy systems, translates business requirements into technical capabilities, and supports IT modernization. Requires Python, PySpark, cloud architecture, CI/CD, database design, Army domain knowledge, and an active DoD Secret clearance.

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.