Top Data Science Jobs in Boston, MA

Develop data pipelines, organize and analyze structured and unstructured government data, create visualizations, build AI agents and lightweight automations, and occasionally develop predictive models. The role involves consulting with senior stakeholders, communicating actionable insights, supporting data capacity building, and collaborating with product, design, engineering, and research teams in a remote government-services environment.

Analyze recruiting and interview data to improve AI-powered candidate evaluation systems. Build metrics, statistical and machine learning models, LLM evaluation datasets, experiments, dashboards, and reproducible data workflows. Collaborate with product and engineering teams on candidate matching, interview quality, recruiting analytics, bias detection, and AI system improvements.

Develop forecasts, machine learning models, and optimization algorithms for renewable energy and battery storage assets. Analyze large energy-market datasets, build simulations, deploy production-grade data science workflows, create dashboards, and establish asset-optimization metrics. The role collaborates with engineering, operations, and energy markets teams to support real-time operations, market strategies, and business development.

Develop marketplace intelligence, forecasting, ranking, recommendation, personalization, and experimentation models for Airbnb’s search and marketplace products. Partner with product and engineering teams to launch AI-driven improvements, build scalable modeling pipelines, evaluate product changes, and guide technical direction. The role requires causal inference, machine learning, strong SQL and Python or R skills, cross-functional communication, and autonomous leadership of data science roadmaps.

Develop machine learning and statistical models to identify, measure, and manage credit and fraud risk. Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions, analyze large application and transaction datasets, deploy end-to-end models, and improve risk decision-making. The role requires advanced Python or R and SQL skills, expertise in fraud and underwriting models, model deployment, statistical methods, and mentoring junior data scientists.

Supports the design, validation, and operationalization of predictive, machine learning, and AI models. Analyzes structured and unstructured data, develops algorithms, validates outcomes, creates visualizations, and communicates findings to stakeholders. Collaborates cross-functionally to integrate solutions and prepares model pipelines for business use. The role also involves statistical analysis, NLP, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and research into emerging technologies.

Lead evaluation strategy for autonomous vehicle perception systems by designing metrics, datasets, statistical methods, and validation frameworks. Analyze large-scale fleet and simulation data to identify failure modes and inform release decisions. Partner cross-functionally with perception, ML, systems, safety, and autonomy teams; mentor data scientists; and present recommendations to senior leadership.

Own analytical relationships with travel technology partners, creating scalable reporting on supply, pricing, and performance. Conduct exploratory analysis, apply machine learning and statistical methods, build dashboards, automate recurring workflows with AI tools, and translate complex findings into recommendations for product, engineering, commercial, and executive audiences.

Lead and manage data science teams to build ML and deep learning models, maintain data pipelines and lakes, ensure data quality, deliver actionable insights, and manage project timelines and client expectations.

Defines UKG’s company-wide data science and AI strategy, architects enterprise-scale systems, guides infrastructure investments, and leads agentic AI governance. Influences executives, drives business-critical ML initiatives, establishes standards for MLOps, model governance, data quality, and responsible AI, and represents the organization externally. Builds leadership capability through mentoring, hiring strategy, career frameworks, and learning programs while evaluating emerging technologies, vendor relationships, and competitive opportunities.

Develop and maintain enterprise databases, data models, metadata frameworks, governance processes, ETL workflows, and data quality systems. Perform forecasting, scenario analysis, and risk assessment using complex datasets. Build automation tools, support data integration, recommend improvements, and collaborate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders. The role supports U.S. Navy data systems and requires active Secret clearance.

Lead end-to-end data science for customer-embedded, production solutions: acquire and prepare messy datasets, develop and evaluate models tied to business outcomes, run experiments, deploy operational models at scale, coach cross-disciplinary teams, and drive strategy, ethics, and privacy discussions.

Lead end-to-end data science projects: acquire and prepare messy datasets, develop and evaluate models tied to business outcomes, operationalize models at scale, run experiments, drive ethics/privacy, partner with customers and teams, and coach cross-disciplinary colleagues.

Build and own marketing measurement frameworks using media mix modeling, incrementality testing, and multi-touch attribution. Design experiments, conduct power analyses, validate models, reconcile measurement sources, and translate findings into client budget recommendations. Clean and integrate advertising, analytics, and commerce data, develop reusable code and templates, present statistical results to technical and nontechnical audiences, and support multiple clients across varied measurement environments.

Own Junction’s data science research, statistical modeling, experimentation, and evaluation strategy across diagnostics, clinical workflows, and AI-enabled products. Build predictive and decision-support models, establish measurement and quality frameworks, partner with engineering to deploy reliable systems, and communicate findings to technical and executive stakeholders. The role combines strategic roadmap ownership with hands-on analytical work in a high-ambiguity startup environment.

Leads data science initiatives for US Card acquisitions, developing and deploying machine learning models across their full lifecycle. Partners with data scientists, software engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to solve complex problems, analyze large-scale numeric and textual datasets, validate models, and translate technical findings into business outcomes. The role also involves team leadership, talent development, model governance, monitoring, and ongoing model improvements.

The Data Scientist will transform real-world, clinical, and preclinical healthcare data into reproducible datasets, analyses, and evidence supporting medical-device research and regulatory needs. Responsibilities include cohort development, data-quality validation, statistical programming, study design support, analysis plans, clinical and post-market analyses, documentation, and communicating findings to technical and nontechnical stakeholders. The role collaborates with Scientific, Clinical, R&D, Regulatory, Quality, IT, and external data partners.

Provides strategic and technical leadership for advanced credit-risk data science. Owns the multi-year modeling roadmap and independently develops, implements, validates, monitors, and improves machine learning models for credit acquisition, underwriting, portfolio management, and customer risk. Applies advanced statistical and ML techniques, conducts fair-lending and explainability analyses, researches emerging methods, and communicates modeling strategy and results to executive and cross-functional stakeholders.

Conduct actuarial and predictive analysis supporting product development, rating, reserving, pricing, financial analysis, and process improvements. Develop predictive models, multivariate analyses, tools, workflows, and scalable data processes. Collaborate with actuaries, product managers, vendors, and business units to translate complex data into strategic business solutions while ensuring accuracy and regulatory compliance.

Evaluates AI-generated data science and quantitative reasoning outputs; develops prompts, datasets, reference solutions, and objective evaluation benchmarks. Identifies statistical errors, flawed methodologies, and unsupported conclusions while providing structured feedback to improve model accuracy. Responsibilities include dataset validation, statistical and quantitative assessment, quality assurance, technical documentation, and clear communication of analytical findings.

Designs challenging data science and machine learning tasks, builds reproducible environments and verified reference solutions, and develops automated tests and evaluation frameworks for AI-generated code. The role analyzes AI agent performance, identifies bugs, leakage, overfitting, and methodological weaknesses, documents technical requirements, and iteratively improves task reliability and complexity.

Supports defense-focused applied R&D by developing machine learning and AI systems, data pipelines, simulations, analytical models, dashboards, and validation processes. Collaborates with academic, government, and industry partners; translates findings for leadership and sponsors; contributes to Navigator methodology, proposal development, project scoping, and special initiatives. The role requires strong statistical modeling, ETL, software engineering, visualization, communication, and the ability to obtain a security clearance.

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.

Develop and deploy machine learning, AI, causal inference, and statistical solutions for advertising measurement products. Build prototypes, conduct experiments, analyze large-scale data, and advance attribution capabilities from early concepts through production. Collaborate with engineering, product, analysts, and account teams to improve measurement and marketing ROI. Responsibilities include owning measurement products, applying Bayesian and marketing models, writing production code, and communicating methodologies and findings to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Develop AI and machine learning solutions for fraud, anomaly detection, semantic search, entity resolution, and investigative analytics. Build and operationalize models across structured and unstructured data using AWS data lakehouse services, generative AI, NLP, graph analytics, and document intelligence. Evaluate model performance, explainability, monitoring, and risk scoring while supporting production integration, dashboards, and investigative workflows. Collaborate with technical teams, investigators, stakeholders, and federal clients in an Agile environment.