Top Senior Data Science Jobs in Austin, TX

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.

Leads advanced data science modeling and provides independent second-line oversight of Buy Now Pay Later credit risk, underwriting, account management, risk controls, and exposure limits. The role analyzes portfolio performance, ensures data quality, challenges credit strategies, communicates insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and mentors junior data scientists while collaborating across geographically distributed teams.

Build, train, evaluate, and deploy deep learning models for credit modeling and loss prediction. Conduct representation learning experiments, integrate models into ML pipelines, and own projects from hypothesis through measurable business outcomes. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product partners, communicate findings, and develop agentic tools that accelerate data science workflows.

Design and architect secure, scalable healthcare data systems; create core data models using TUVA, OMOP, and FHIR; build production data pipelines and EMR integrations; establish data quality and governance; optimize performance; deploy cloud infrastructure; and ensure HIPAA and HITRUST compliance. The role requires expert SQL and Python or Scala skills, advanced data warehouse and big-data experience, and at least eight years in data science or data engineering.

Develops data quality checks, metadata standards, and AI use-case inventories for HHS. Cleans and integrates complex datasets, applies machine learning and NLP for automated tagging and classification, evaluates AI governance risks, and produces reporting datasets, dashboards, and recommendations. The role requires translating ambiguous federal policy and reporting requirements into repeatable analytical workflows while collaborating with product, design, engineering, and government stakeholders.

Develop and deploy machine learning and LLM-based solutions for cybersecurity challenges. Responsibilities include analyzing complex datasets, building classification and NLP models, optimizing prompting, embeddings, RAG, and fine-tuning techniques, designing evaluation methodologies, and integrating models into scalable production systems. The role requires collaboration with cybersecurity researchers, software engineers, data engineers, and product managers.

Measures customer engagement impact on pipeline, renewals, account health, and predictive model performance. Conducts baseline, holdout, before-and-after, and control-group analyses; validates customer data and helps tune models. Builds reusable value analyses, dashboards, and reporting for leadership, Customer Success, and Data Science. Requires strong SQL, Python, statistics, experiment design, business communication, and experience translating messy data into trusted insights.

Develop and standardize analytical methods for inferring residence, displacement, and poverty from mobile network operator data. Assess data quality, write technical specifications and tests, guide operator engineering teams, tune statistical methods, and balance accuracy with implementation constraints. Design privacy-preserving analyses, improve data security practices, train internal teams, and support international workshops and emergency-response programs.

The Senior Data Scientist will conduct product analysis, build advanced models and analytics tools, evaluate A/B tests, develop automated dashboards, and generate recommendations for product strategy. The role partners with business stakeholders and Engineering to improve data infrastructure and governance, communicate statistical insights, and support data-driven decisions across Product, Marketing, and Finance.

Own product-led growth analytics across activation, engagement, conversion, monetization, and retention. Lead experimentation, statistical analysis, causal inference, metric development, and proactive opportunity discovery. Build scalable analytical systems, monitoring frameworks, semantic models, and AI-powered tools. Partner with Product, Engineering, and leadership to shape product bets, investment decisions, and roadmap priorities. Work autonomously in a remote-first environment and communicate complex findings through clear, actionable recommendations.

Develop and own advanced machine learning and AI models using bank transaction and cashflow data to enable financial product capabilities, manage risk, and drive profitable growth. Design experiments, build proofs of concept, monitor production models, and collaborate with data and machine learning engineering teams on scalability. Communicate findings and tradeoffs to business stakeholders while applying statistical, research, and financial services expertise.

Lead computational platform development for biological design, optimization, and functional prediction. Collaborate with wet-lab scientists to validate predictions, oversee data infrastructure and computational workflows, and contribute to technology roadmaps, funding proposals, and partnerships. The role requires developing machine learning methods for biological sequence and structure analysis, translating biological problems into computational solutions, and leading technical teams across computational and experimental disciplines.

Build and deploy machine learning models that personalize insurance products, analyze product data, design experiments, and measure model impact. The role owns the full data science lifecycle, including data wrangling, production coding, model monitoring, retraining, and experimentation. Responsibilities also include cross-functional collaboration, code reviews, mentoring data scientists, and improving platform practices.

Build and evaluate machine learning models and features for fraud detection across account opening, account takeover, and identity risk. Investigate fraud patterns, analyze complex datasets, develop production-ready code, validate models, and support monitoring and deployment. Collaborate with senior data scientists, engineers, and score monitoring teams while communicating findings to technical and nontechnical audiences. Apply data privacy, explainability, documentation, validation, and governance standards.

Own data science for customer-facing product features, including LTV prediction, experimentation, benchmarking, and forecasting. Proactively analyze data to identify customer problems and product opportunities, build and deploy production-grade models, and influence product roadmaps. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Analytics, communicate findings to varied audiences, iterate on shipped features, and lead new data-driven initiatives.

Lead data science and advanced analytics initiatives supporting underwriting, operational performance, and risk management. Develop, validate, deploy, and monitor explainable predictive models in a regulated insurance environment. Translate business needs into scalable analytical solutions, partner with governance and risk stakeholders, lead data scientists and analysts, and communicate insights to senior leaders. The role also supports enterprise data platforms, modern architectures, responsible AI, regulatory compliance, and data-driven organizational change.

Build and own production-grade generative AI applications for legal technology, specializing in RAG, agentic systems, advanced search, embeddings, reranking, evaluation, and LLM workflows. Responsibilities include architecting modular Python applications, refactoring legacy code, implementing testing and observability, optimizing performance and costs, ensuring resilience and security, reviewing code, and supporting deployments and incident resolution.

Leads the architecture, development, and production delivery of AI platforms and applications. Establishes reusable RAG, agentic, evaluation, observability, and governance capabilities; mentors AI, ML, and data science teams; and partners with product and business stakeholders on AI strategy and roadmaps. Oversees responsible AI, performance, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization while guiding complex cross-functional initiatives from concept through ongoing improvement.

Own and improve sales quota-setting models and methodologies using statistical modeling, forecasting, optimization, machine learning, and AI. Validate data, assumptions, model outputs, and business impact while partnering with Finance, Sales Compensation, Analytics, Engineering, and business stakeholders. Develop scalable analytical workflows and LLM solutions, including RAG applications, and communicate quantitative findings clearly to influence sales strategy, incentive programs, and operational decisions.

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.

Own product experimentation, causal analysis, KPI frameworks, predictive modeling, and user segmentation to improve growth, engagement, retention, and revenue. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Design to translate ambiguous questions into rigorous analyses and launch recommendations. Develop lifecycle intervention intelligence, evaluate treatment effects and persistence, communicate uncertainty, and influence roadmap decisions through reusable analyses and clear narratives.

Own company-wide KPI, modeling, and measurement workstreams; develop trusted metrics, KPI trees, forecasts, causal analyses, scenarios, and diagnostic tools. Partner with Data Engineering, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Commercial teams to connect business drivers to retention, monetization, revenue, and margin. Build reproducible SQL and Python workflows, communicate uncertainty and assumptions, and drive adoption of analytical frameworks and recommendations.

Leads company-wide data science priorities, KPI frameworks, measurement standards, causal modeling, scenario planning, and agentic analytical automation. Builds reproducible SQL and Python workflows, validates predictive and causal relationships, establishes trusted metrics, partners with Finance, Product, Commercial, Engineering, and Data Engineering, and mentors scientists. The role drives adoption of governed self-service analytics and communicates assumptions, uncertainty, and business trade-offs to leadership.

Develop and deploy machine learning, AI, causal inference, and statistical solutions for advertising measurement products. Own projects from prototyping through production, conduct experiments, explore large-scale data, and collaborate with product, engineering, analysts, and account teams to improve attribution and marketing ROI.