Top Data Science Jobs in Chicago, IL

Evaluate migration technologies, build quantitative models for migration risk and data quality, coordinate customer migration projects, develop data pipelines and analytical frameworks, implement Python and SQL validation workflows, assess cloud environments, and create dashboards and reporting for product, sales, and operations teams.

Develops and maintains Tableau dashboards and visual analytics products for public health decision-making. Analyzes complex datasets, identifies trends, translates findings into accessible visualizations, and collaborates with epidemiologists, programs, and stakeholders. Ensures data accuracy, privacy, suppression, confidentiality, governance, and dashboard sustainability while documenting data sources and business logic. Provides analytic support, communicates insights to leadership, and works remotely with public health partners. Up to 10% domestic travel may be required.

Analyze large datasets, identify meaningful patterns, develop machine learning models, and deliver actionable insights for business decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs, communicate findings clearly to stakeholders, and stay current with advances in data science and AI technologies.

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.

Lead client engagements from data onboarding through production, plan studies that demonstrate business value, and build automated machine learning workflows using Python, scikit-learn, pandas, and Spark. Translate client business questions into data solutions, manage stakeholder relationships, evaluate model performance, and inform product planning. Requires healthcare or life sciences data experience and end-to-end delivery of sophisticated data or machine learning solutions.

Develop statistical methodologies and data science solutions for consumer purchase panel data. Build Python and SQL workflows, metrics, monitoring, and validation frameworks; investigate data quality and consumer behavior; and support projects from exploration through deployment. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Operations, and business partners while communicating methodologies, findings, assumptions, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.

Partner with AI labs to improve frontier models by designing targeted data collection workflows, analyzing experimental results, and implementing quality controls. The role involves evaluating model behavior, reducing bias, supporting model safety and alignment, and translating technical findings into actionable insights for AI researchers and customers. Python is used for data analysis, pipeline development, and workflow prototyping.

Applied Data Scientist focused on incrementality, causal inference, experimentation, Marketing Mix Modeling, and predictive products. The role partners directly with customers to interpret data, diagnose measurement issues, explain statistical results, and provide actionable recommendations. Responsibilities include building diagnostic tools, analyzing model and experiment outcomes, improving methodologies and production capabilities, and collaborating with Product, Engineering, Media Strategy, Customer Success, and senior data scientists.

Supports migration of reporting assets from SAP BusinessObjects to Qlik by rebuilding, testing, validating, documenting, and troubleshooting reports. Responsibilities include creating dashboards, writing SQL queries, updating Qlik scripts and expressions, tracking migration changes, migrating scheduled jobs, and supporting user acceptance testing and training documentation under senior developer guidance.

Analyzes structured and unstructured datasets supporting U.S. Navy electronic warfare systems. Develops statistical, machine learning, NLP, data modeling, visualization, and reporting solutions to improve system readiness, reliability, maintainability, operational availability, and lifecycle performance. Integrates logistics, engineering, maintenance, and operational data; identifies trends and risks; and presents data-driven findings to technical and program stakeholders.

Develops analytical models and applications for U.S. Navy electronic warfare and sustainment systems. Applies data mining, statistical analysis, NLP, machine learning, and data modeling to structured and unstructured data. Integrates logistics, engineering, maintenance, reliability, and operational data to assess readiness, performance, risks, and availability. Creates visualizations, dashboards, reports, and briefings, while collaborating with engineers, logisticians, operations researchers, and program personnel to support lifecycle management and data-driven 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.

Develops data science models, analytical processes, visualizations, dashboards, and reports for U.S. Navy electronic warfare systems. Integrates logistics, engineering, maintenance, reliability, and operational data to evaluate system readiness, reliability, maintainability, performance, risks, and lifecycle sustainment. Applies data mining, statistical analysis, NLP, and machine learning to support operational decisions and collaborates with engineers, logisticians, analysts, and program personnel.

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.

Lead customer implementations of enterprise AI and machine learning solutions for supply chain planning. Design, prototype, test, and deploy forecasting, demand sensing, inventory optimization, and predictive analytics models. Partner with enterprise clients and executives, mentor data science teams, apply MLOps best practices, and integrate custom models into the o9 platform. The role requires deep expertise in time-series forecasting, mathematical optimization, machine learning, and supply chain analytics.

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.

Own Alpaca’s growth data strategy across acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and monetization. Build experimentation frameworks, causal and incrementality analyses, funnel and cohort models, LTV/CAC and churn forecasts, marketing measurement, governed growth metrics, and self-serve analytics. Partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and Finance to influence strategy and roadmaps, communicate insights to leadership, mentor data professionals, and establish standards for growth analytics.

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 and implement data science models and algorithms for payments risk management. Analyze complex datasets, ensure data quality and integrity, optimize data processes, and perform advanced statistical analysis and reporting. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and deliver effective analytical solutions.

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.

Apply machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistical analysis, and causal inference to large datasets and product analytics. Develop insights and recommendations for recommendation systems and user experiences. Evaluate experiments through planning, monitoring, and post-analysis, build data pipelines and tools, and communicate complex findings to stakeholders to support business decisions.

Prototype and validate analytical methods and LLM applications for political, media, and advertising data. Build proof-of-concept tools, datasets, pipelines, and applications, then engineer validated methods toward production. Apply statistical and data science techniques, maintain rigorous software development practices, communicate findings clearly, and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Own the analytical strategy for a digital primary care program by defining KPIs, building dbt data models, maintaining the Snowflake/Fivetran/dbt stack, and delivering analytics, forecasting, revenue modeling, dashboards, and AI-assisted workflows. Translate patient, EHR, clinical, and operational data into actionable insights for product, care delivery, operations, leadership, health systems, and payers.

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.

Develop, deploy, and monitor fraud detection models and pattern-recognition pipelines using Python, SQL, machine learning, and large transactional datasets. Partner with Fraud Operations to refine models, reduce false positives and negatives, analyze emerging fraud trends, and improve underwriting and verification strategies. Communicate insights to senior stakeholders, apply AI in production, and lead team members and initiatives.