Top Data Science Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

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.

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.

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.

Embedded Data Scientist for Superhuman Mail, partnering with product, growth, engineering, and design teams to guide roadmap decisions. Responsibilities include defining product metrics, designing experiments, applying causal inference and machine learning, measuring AI feature quality, analyzing activation and retention, identifying growth and conversion drivers, and communicating insights to stakeholders. The role requires strong Python, SQL, experimentation, statistics, and cross-functional influence skills.

Lead data science initiatives supporting Product and Commercial Operations. Analyze growth opportunities, define success metrics, conduct experimentation and causal inference, and deliver actionable insights. Lead initiatives such as experimentation systems and data agents while promoting strong analytical practices. Partner with stakeholders to drive measurable product impact, minimize marketplace losses, and communicate complex findings to executive audiences.

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.

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.

As a Senior Data Scientist, the role involves leveraging data analysis, experimentation, and statistical methods to influence business decisions and enhance Gusto's product performance, while mentoring team members.

Leads experimentation, causal inference, advanced statistical analysis, machine learning, and scalable data-product development. Partners with product, engineering, and research teams to generate insights, identify opportunities, influence executive decisions, and shape product strategy. Owns cross-functional projects, analytics roadmaps, reporting, stakeholder adoption, and methodological standards while translating complex data into actionable business outcomes.

Analyze large datasets to identify fraud patterns, emerging risks, and strategy improvements. Develop fraud detection rules and models, monitor performance and loss metrics, build dashboards and reporting, evaluate data sources and analytical methods, and translate findings into recommendations. The role partners with Fraud, Risk, Product, Technology, and Operations teams while applying statistical analysis, predictive modeling, AI tools, and sound judgment when handling sensitive data.

Lead data science for a Grant product area, defining metrics, experiments, causal analyses, and decision-making models. Partner with product, engineering, marketing, and business leaders on strategy and roadmaps. Establish data science best practices across Kikoff and help shape AI-agent-enabled analytical workflows. Build production-quality SQL and Python pipelines, analyses, and models while guiding experimentation, monitoring, and policy decisions.

Data Scientist partnering with cross-functional teams to define metrics, design experiments, uncover insights, build analytical models, and develop data tools and systems. The role owns complex data projects end-to-end, supports product, marketing, finance, and platform initiatives, and promotes data quality and accessibility. Candidates need strong SQL, scripting, distributed data systems, statistical methods, experimentation, forecasting, and stakeholder communication skills.

Apply data science and AI techniques to private equity investment activities, including portfolio analytics, machine learning models, market intelligence, deal screening, valuation support, risk assessment, and LP analytics. Collaborate with investment, data engineering, and international teams while developing data sources, financial models, dashboards, and AI-enabled workflows.

Product Data Scientist responsible for product data modeling, product and revenue analytics, behavioral analysis, A/B experimentation, and product metric governance. The role partners with Product, Revenue, Engineering, and Analytics Engineering teams to deliver scalable insights and influence decisions. It also contributes to agentic analytics by evaluating AI-generated outputs and improving semantic and prompt layers.

Apply statistical inference and experimentation to evaluate product changes, identify Growth opportunities, and guide strategy. Partner with product, engineering, and marketing leaders to define metrics, build datasets and dashboards, and communicate insights that drive business and product decisions. The role requires SQL, scripting, data transformation, and practical tradeoffs between speed and accuracy. Predictive modeling experience is preferred, as are startup and B2B SaaS backgrounds.

Leads data science for AML watchlist screening, developing multilingual NLP, entity resolution, information extraction, matching, risk-scoring, and graph-based detection systems. Builds data quality pipelines, evaluation frameworks, threshold tuning, backtesting, and production ML capabilities. Partners with Product and Engineering to deploy research at scale, leads technical initiatives, mentors peers, and translates model performance into compliance and business outcomes.

Drive product analytics across feature adoption, usage, pricing, customer health, and experimentation. Partner with product, engineering, and business leaders to identify opportunities, deliver actionable insights, improve self-serve analytics and governance, and strengthen data pipelines and analysis quality. The role requires communicating complex findings clearly and working from Aircall’s San Francisco office two days per week.

Optimize dataset quality and value through marketplace incentives, task targeting, bonuses, payouts, eligibility, and experimentation. Design treatment assignments and holdouts, evaluate incremental collection against objective functions, identify Goodhart effects, and translate findings into operational actions. Partner with software teams to ship incentive and payout changes into the collection product. Experience with marketplace experimentation, pricing, growth, real-money payouts, or product implementation is preferred.

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.

Build actuarial and health-economic models (total cost of care, PMPM, MLR) from claims to project multi-year cost and utilization impacts, quantify uncertainty, support commercial pricing, defend analyses to payer actuaries, partner on causal/expt design, and produce outputs usable for pricing/reserving.

The role involves analyzing fraud and risk data, defining KPIs, collaborating on anti-fraud strategies, and creating tools and dashboards for data accessibility at Whatnot.

Develop and productionize AI and machine learning solutions for client, investment, and operational problems. Responsibilities include designing AI agents and agentic workflows, prototyping with foundation models and agent frameworks, building evaluation and observability systems, ensuring reliability and compliance, translating business needs into technical solutions, leading major initiatives, and presenting research and technical work to senior stakeholders.