Top Data Science Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

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.

Design, build, and scale production Generative AI applications including multi-agent systems, advanced RAG pipelines, and local/frontier LLM deployments. Implement high-performance backends with FastAPI and async Python, fine-tune and quantize models, integrate vector databases and retrieval systems, and deploy/monitor containerized AI services for reliability, latency, and cost optimization.

Proactively explore RevenueCat data to identify customer problems and opportunities. Translate ambiguous product questions into analyses and production-grade predictive/descriptive models. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Analytics to shape roadmaps, define experimentation and benchmarking approaches, deploy and iterate on models powering customer-facing features, and communicate insights across technical and non-technical audiences.

Founding Data Scientist for RC Capital responsible for building underwriting, fraud detection, anomaly detection, and lead-qualification models; integrating risk signals into product flows; deploying and monitoring production models; analyzing cross-platform revenue data; and defining DS strategy to scale fintech products.

Own complex analyses and measurement frameworks for a product or business area. Design experiments and statistical/causal models, define and monitor KPIs, quantify impact, and translate findings into product and business recommendations. Partner cross-functionally, mentor junior analysts, and use tools like Python, SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Spark, and AWS to scale analytics and ensure reproducibility and strong governance.

Lead causal inference and measurement efforts for payments, build and evaluate ML/AI and LLM-based models, optimize fraud mitigation and loss strategies, simulate interventions, and communicate findings to stakeholders to drive product and risk decisions.

Design, build, and productionize complex Bayesian and probabilistic modeling pipelines. Lead methodology and technical direction, collaborate with Product/Data/Engineering, mentor data scientists, communicate results to stakeholders, and apply hierarchical, state-space, time-series, and graphical modeling at scale with strong emphasis on uncertainty and model validation.

Lead research defining fabric's AI shopping roadmap: design and run quantitative studies, build models and benchmarks for AI search (AEO/GEO), run experiments, translate findings into customer-facing insights, and publish research to influence product and go-to-market strategy.

Build and validate production-grade ML and AI systems across pricing, underwriting, claims, and portfolio management. Work with structured and unstructured data, LLMs and agentic workflows, extract information from documents, resolve entities, create feature pipelines and inference services, quantify uncertainty, monitor drift, and measure business impact in collaboration with engineers, actuaries, underwriters, and product teams.

The Analytics Manager analyzes complex datasets, builds models, conducts scenario analyses, and provides strategic recommendations to guide decision-making for leadership.

Lead advanced analytics and ML for partner-facing teams: build end-to-end predictive models (churn, lead scoring, health scores), marketing attribution and mix models, and maintain ML lifecycle standards. Develop agentic workflows and Claude Skills to accelerate work, mentor analytics team, and translate model outputs into actionable insights for Sales, Marketing, and CX.

Lead a data science team to design, build, and deploy large-scale, real-time AI/ML solutions (forecasting, diagnostics, LLM chatbot, retention models, optimization) to optimize GPU cloud gaming performance and user experience.

The Senior Data Scientist will design and deploy time-series forecasting models, collaborate with stakeholders, and operationalize models in cloud environments, focusing on demand planning across various industries.

Develop, validate, and deploy statistical and machine learning models on large structured and unstructured tax datasets to detect fraud, prioritize audits, and score compliance risk. Clean and explore data, perform feature engineering, collaborate with stakeholders, and present technical findings to diverse audiences.

Develop, validate, and deploy predictive and statistical models on large tax and financial datasets to detect fraud and non-compliance. Perform data exploration, feature engineering, and model evaluation using Python/R, SQL, and Databricks. Collaborate with government clients and cross-functional teams, deliver technical and non-technical briefings, and ensure models are explainable, defensible, and maintainable in secure government environments.

Lead product and program analytics for Microsoft skilling experiences: design learner journey/funnel analyses, define success metrics, run experiments and causal analyses, build proficiency/competency models, shape telemetry and scalable reporting, recommend content and curriculum improvements, and mentor other data scientists to drive product decisions and learning outcomes.

Design and validate clinical and biomarker data pipelines, perform source-to-target mappings (e.g., EHR to data model), extend ontologies and vocabularies, ensure data quality, evaluate informatics tools, and support data architecture and analysis workflows for a regulatory-grade platform.

Build and maintain analytics data models, dashboards, and reports. Use SQL (Postgres, Trino, Iceberg) and dbt to power financial metrics. Perform deep-dive analyses using SQL and Python (Jupyter, Pandas) to answer business questions, operationalize data, and improve reporting and automation.

The Senior Data Scientist will design and deploy machine learning models, analyze complex datasets, develop analytical solutions, and mentor junior team members in a remote environment.

Lead development of digital twin and simulation models for warehouse operations, deploy AI-driven decision systems, build forecasting and optimization models, validate experiments linking operational metrics to financial impact, and partner with engineers, operations, and external AI/academic partners to scale innovations across fulfillment networks.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze customer data, design experiments, build models, and support data-driven decision-making across product, marketing, and customer experience teams.

Develop, implement, and maintain ALM and CCAR/PPNR models for balance sheet forecasting. Build customer behavior, prepayment, and deposit models; monitor performance, perform backtesting and sensitivity analysis; collaborate with Model Risk, Market Risk, Treasury, and validation teams; prepare documentation and materials for governance and senior leadership; support balance sheet optimization and regulatory initiatives.

Lead retention and churn efforts by building survival and lifecycle-state models, classifying churn reasons, creating personalized win-back and next-best-action interventions, optimizing offers/promos, designing uplift experiments, and owning production model lifecycle, monitoring, and MLOps across Product, CRM, Marketing, and Engineering.

The Senior Data Scientist leads data-driven initiatives, optimizing analytics for business decisions, mentoring staff, and ensuring data quality across healthcare projects.

As a Data Scientist at Sardine, you'll design and deploy data-driven solutions to prevent fraud, collaborating with clients and engineering teams to build and optimize machine learning models.