Top Remote Data Science Jobs in Chicago, IL

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.

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 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.

Lead data science measurement initiatives for media and advertising. Design experiments and causal models to measure incrementality, build marketing mix models, and productionize scalable data pipelines. Develop and deploy models using Python, R, SQL, and cloud platforms while ensuring data quality and privacy compliance. Deliver dashboards, automated reporting, and executive-ready insights, communicate findings to stakeholders, and mentor junior data scientists.

Leads advanced data science and machine learning initiatives for healthcare payment integrity, including fraud, waste, and abuse detection, anomaly identification, predictive modeling, statistical analysis, dashboards, and recovery investigations. Provides technical leadership, mentors analysts, integrates production analytical solutions, collaborates with legal and business stakeholders, and presents findings to leadership. Requires healthcare expertise, advanced SQL and programming skills, and knowledge of claims, billing, reimbursement, and program integrity.

Build Boulevard’s Product Intelligence function by developing product data foundations, pipelines, dashboards, experimentation practices, and customer behavior models. Partner with Product, Engineering, and leadership to deliver actionable insights, self-serve analytics, and productionized models. Establish scalable processes, instrumentation standards, statistical workflows, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Develop statistical and machine learning models using soccer tracking and event data to support player recruitment decisions. Build spatio-temporal models, metrics, analyses, and interpretation tools; validate models; communicate findings to professional club clients; and partner with engineering on cloud deployment and production reliability. The role also includes code review, model maintenance, and advancing analytical methods.

Develops production-grade statistical and machine learning models and predictive solutions for healthcare operations and business performance. The role analyzes complex data, designs experiments, evaluates AI systems, establishes metrics, creates dashboards, standardizes reporting, and communicates insights to technical and executive stakeholders. It also supports generative AI evaluation, model deployment workflows, and data-driven decision-making in regulated industries.

Develop NLP, LLM, and machine learning pipelines to abstract clinical concepts from structured, unstructured, and multimodal healthcare data. Query healthcare source systems, curate and validate AI-ready datasets, support patient phenotyping and real-world evidence analyses, and deliver HIPAA-compliant data products. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, communicate findings to technical and clinical audiences, and improve data quality for customer AI applications. The role is remote with occasional quarterly travel.