Top Remote Data Science Jobs in Chicago, IL

Partner with clients to design healthcare data science solutions, curate multimodal clinical datasets, and conduct statistical, predictive, causal inference, real-world evidence, and AI/ML analyses. Responsibilities include querying EMR and other health data sources, creating statistical analysis plans, managing SQL and analytical programming, ensuring HIPAA-compliant data quality, documenting findings, and presenting results to technical, clinical, and executive audiences.

Lead development of statistical and machine learning models for time-series, geospatial, kinematic, and radar data. Build analytic solutions, training datasets, ETL workflows, forecasting and anomaly-detection models, simulations, visualizations, and performance metrics. Integrate multi-source sensor data, enhance algorithms, document processes, and collaborate with engineers, analysts, mission partners, and stakeholders in an agile environment.

Leads fraud detection, risk analysis, loss mitigation, and fraud strategy development. Builds analytical rules, predictive algorithms, monitoring dashboards, and automated controls using SQL, Python, Tableau, and AI tools. Partners with product, engineering, modeling, and operations teams to define requirements, validate strategies, optimize fraud KPIs, and manage deployments. The role also involves experimental design, governance, onboarding fraud typologies, and mentoring junior team members.

Leads responsible AI and model governance while building and deploying healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse models. Establishes standards for documentation, monitoring, bias, drift, validation, and production readiness. Evaluates generative AI use cases, develops policies, validates large-scale claims models, and presents methodology and controls to partners, auditors, and investigators. Works remotely with data scientists, BI developers, and healthcare subject-matter experts.

Design and analyze rigorous messaging experiments using A/B testing and causal inference. Build measurement frameworks, data pipelines, dashboards, automated analyses, and scalable data solutions for messaging campaigns. Partner with CRM, Product, Algorithms, and Engineering teams to translate ambiguous business questions into actionable recommendations and experimentation standards. Support messaging strategy across channels, timing, content, targeting, and new business verticals.

Develop and productionize machine learning models and predictive analytics using Python, Databricks, PySpark, SQL, and Delta Lake. Build scalable data science workflows, resolve healthcare data quality and entity-resolution issues, and apply Master Data Management practices. Partner with engineering, product, analytics, and business teams to deliver governed, HIPAA-compliant solutions. Perform exploratory analysis, feature engineering, model evaluation, deployment, documentation, and data lineage management for healthcare and member engagement initiatives.

Develops and enables clinical data assets for analytics and AI/ML across healthcare use cases. Responsibilities include designing clinical data models, taxonomies, feature stores, documentation, quality frameworks, dashboards, and reusable datasets. The role partners with clinical, business, and engineering stakeholders, supports data governance and HIPAA compliance, translates clinical concepts into analytical frameworks, and trains downstream data consumers. Expertise in clinical coding systems, healthcare datasets, SQL, cloud platforms, and clinical informatics standards is required.

Leads and mentors junior developers while designing, modifying, testing, and deploying data solutions in Palantir Foundry. Builds data models and reports from ERP and legacy systems, translates business requirements into technical capabilities, and supports IT modernization. Requires Python, PySpark, cloud architecture, CI/CD, database design, Army domain knowledge, and an active DoD Secret clearance.

Develop and lead data science and machine learning initiatives, including exploratory analysis, predictive modeling, experimentation, recommendation systems, user classification, model monitoring, and production deployment. Partner with product, marketing, analytics, and engineering teams to convert user insights into automated services. Manage projects throughout their lifecycle, support strategic ML planning, and deliver solutions for personalization, cross-selling, and retargeting.

Consult as a fractional data scientist for hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices. Lead data science initiatives: build infrastructure, develop and deploy models, create portfolio dashboards, monitor post-deployment performance, and partner with investment teams to turn data into actionable investment insights. Advise on vendor selection, data quality, technology stacks, KPIs, and governance.

Build end-to-end data science, machine learning, forecasting, time-series, and AI solutions for supply chain and manufacturing operations. Develop analytical datasets, ETL/ELT workflows, dashboards, APIs, and production models using Python, SQL, cloud platforms, and modern data technologies. Partner with business and technical stakeholders to improve inventory, demand forecasting, delivery, production planning, cost, and operational efficiency. The role owns solutions from problem definition through deployment, monitoring, adoption, and continuous improvement.

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.

Builds a talent network of experienced data scientists for potential future AI evaluation projects. Responsibilities may include creating grading criteria, evaluating AI-generated or human-produced data science work, writing evidence-based justifications, applying consistent judgment, and incorporating reviewer feedback. Candidates should have professional data science experience, strong Python and SQL skills, expertise in statistical modeling, machine learning, experimentation, causal inference, and excellent technical communication.

Lead end-to-end pricing experimentation and strategy for consumer and business products. Design and analyze A/B tests, build pricing models and production-grade data pipelines, partner cross-functionally, and present actionable recommendations to senior leadership.

Develop statistical and machine learning models for clinical trial enrollment, patient matching, forecasting, and trial management. Monitor model performance and bias, build scalable data pipelines using AWS services and dbt, and ensure compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and privacy standards. Collaborate with ML engineering, product, and clinical research stakeholders to integrate models into practical healthcare solutions.

Drive product-led growth through rigorous analysis of onboarding, activation, adoption, retention, expansion, and monetization. Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Sales to design experiments, analyze funnels and cohorts, identify behavioral signals, build metrics and dashboards, improve instrumentation, and translate uncertain or incomplete data into actionable product recommendations.

Lead product and program analytics for Microsoft skilling experiences: design learner journey/funnel analyses, define success metrics, run experiments and causal analyses, build proficiency/competency models, shape telemetry and scalable reporting, recommend content and curriculum improvements, and mentor other data scientists to drive product decisions and learning outcomes.

Develop and deploy machine learning models for manufacturing use cases including predictive quality, machine failure prediction, and time-series pattern discovery. Work directly with customers to scope problems, validate solutions in live deployments, and translate successful analyses into product features. Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer success teams while applying statistics, optimization, generative AI, and agentic AI to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Lead data science engagements with customers to acquire, clean, analyze, and model data; develop scalable operational models and evaluation methods; coach engineers on best practices; drive solution strategy, ethics, and industry thought leadership; write extensible code and collaborate across teams to deliver cloud-based AI solutions.

Leads end-to-end machine learning model development, from business problem definition and data exploration through deployment, monitoring, documentation, and retraining. Mentors data scientists, collaborates with stakeholders and product teams, troubleshoots production code and ML pipelines, and guides Agile delivery. Requires advanced expertise in statistical modeling, machine learning, cloud platforms, MLOps, production coding, large datasets, containers, version control, and data lakes.

Designs, develops, evaluates, and deploys AI and data-driven solutions using machine learning, deep learning, NLP, LLMs, intelligent agents, prompt engineering, and RAG. Builds scalable data pipelines, experiments with models, deploys AI services through APIs and cloud infrastructure, and monitors system reliability and performance. Collaborates with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to translate business needs into production-ready solutions while addressing risks and continuously improving AI capabilities.

Own revenue-focused data science from opportunity sizing through production ML. Investigate and measure product changes, build and operate batch and online ML systems for personalization, experimentation, and automation, and partner cross-functionally to integrate models into user-facing products. Establish monitoring, lineage, reproducibility, and security practices; improve data pipelines; mentor data scientists; and define ML development best practices while using AI tools to accelerate delivery.

Design and deploy optimization and machine learning models for allocating scarce parts and resources across competing programs. Responsibilities include formulating MILP and constraint optimization models, forecasting demand and supply risk, building data pipelines, validating outputs, communicating tradeoffs to stakeholders, mentoring junior data scientists, and partnering with software engineers to productionize scalable services.

Lead end-to-end AI/ML initiatives that improve student retention, engagement, enrollment, and re-engagement. Build and deploy predictive models, next-best-action logic, and production MLOps workflows using Databricks, MLflow, dbt, and Dagster. Own experimentation, monitoring, performance measurement, cross-functional implementation, vendor coordination, and executive communication. Mentor teammates and drive measurable outcomes across Product, Engineering, CX, and university partners.

Leads the data science platform and machine learning strategy, building data marts, predictive models, MLOps infrastructure, and analytics capabilities. Analyzes healthcare claims, clinical, workflow, and operational data to risk-stratify patients, assess clinical program impact, support dashboards, and improve patient and provider engagement. Collaborates with clinical, operations, finance, product, executive, and technology teams while serving as a trusted analytics expert for a business workstream.