Data Scientist jobs in California

Intercom

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $206,600 – $229,000

This role pairs data science expertise with customer-facing deployment work, embedding with strategic customers to design and implement AI-driven solutions that scale their support operations. It suits someone who enjoys moving between technical deep-dives and high-level strategy, thrives in ambiguous situations, and wants to see their work drive both immediate customer impact and feed back into product direction.

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Bend Studio

San Mateo, CA · $156,300 – $234,500

This role applies machine learning and causal inference methods to understand player behavior and platform engagement at PlayStation, delivering analytical insights that drive product and business decisions. It suits data scientists with advanced statistical training and 2+ years of industry experience who are comfortable building models, designing experiments, and translating complex analyses for non-technical stakeholders.

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Intuit

Mountain View, CA · $210,500 – $284,500

This is a senior data science leadership role focused on driving growth and strategy for Intuit's mid-market ERP platform through marketing measurement and analytics. The person will work directly with marketing, sales, and finance leaders to shape investment decisions, build measurement frameworks, and optimize the full customer acquisition funnel.

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Suno

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $220,000 – $320,000

A Data Scientist role building the metrics, models, and analysis frameworks that help Suno maintain a trustworthy platform for music creation—measuring safety, detecting abuse, and running experiments to validate solutions. This suits someone with 6–8 years of analytical experience in trust and safety who thrives in fast-moving startups and enjoys applying rigorous quantitative methods to hard, real-world problems.

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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $145,000 – $233,000 · Remote

This role applies data science and statistical expertise to drive product decisions and growth strategy at Notion, a collaborative workspace platform. It suits experienced data scientists who thrive in ambiguous environments, can partner effectively across product and engineering teams, and want to influence business outcomes through rigorous analysis.

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Deepgram

San Francisco, CA · $150,000 – $220,000 · Remote

Deepgram is seeking a data scientist to build data infrastructure and pipelines for training the next generation of voice AI models. You'll work on complex audio challenges like data acquisition, characterization, and benchmarking to support conversational AI systems at scale.

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Mixpanel

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $216,000 – $254,000

This role partners with product engineers to embed statistical rigor into Mixpanel's AI-driven analytics platform, designing causal inference methods and forecasting models that power features like automated signal detection and KPI projection. The position suits experienced data scientists who combine deep statistical expertise with the ability to communicate complex methodology to non-technical teams and see it through to production.

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CrowdStrike

Full-time · Sunnyvale, CA · $90,000 – $125,000

CrowdStrike is looking for a new graduate data scientist to build machine learning and AI systems that analyze security data at massive scale for their next-generation SIEM platform. This role suits someone with a strong quantitative background and hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks who wants to work on real-world AI problems in cybersecurity.

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Circle

San Francisco, CA · $195,000 – $257,500 · Remote

Circle seeks a Staff Data Scientist to lead analytical initiatives across their payments platform, applying statistical modeling and experimentation to drive product strategy and business growth. This role suits experienced quantitative professionals who can influence senior stakeholders through data-driven insights and build scalable solutions in a fintech environment.

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Gofundme

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $179,500 – $269,500

GoFundMe seeks a Staff Data Scientist to lead data-driven initiatives across marketing, growth, and product strategy, helping the organization optimize audience targeting, retention, and business outcomes. This senior role suits experienced practitioners who combine deep statistical expertise with the ability to mentor others and communicate complex findings to executives.

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Descript

San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $250,000 · Remote

This is a lead data scientist role focused on driving product growth and experimentation strategy at an AI-powered audio/video editing platform. The position suits someone with strong statistical and SQL skills who wants to shape a company's analytics culture and growth direction at a well-funded startup.

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Obsidian Securty

Newport Beach, CA · $220,000 – $250,000

Obsidian Security seeks a technical lead to build and scale the data and ML systems underlying their SaaS security platform, particularly focusing on security ontologies and threat detection. This role suits someone with 6+ years in data science or ML who enjoys diving into complex security domains and can ship production systems at scale.

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Crusoe

Full-time · Sunnyvale, CA · $166,000 – $200,000

Crusoe Energy seeks a senior data scientist to build forecasting models, perform root cause analysis, and optimize cloud infrastructure operations for their AI infrastructure platform. This early-stage role suits experienced analysts ready to drive impact across product, operations, and capacity planning with significant autonomy.

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Taskrabbit

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $170,000 – $225,000

Taskrabbit seeks a Staff Data Scientist to drive marketplace strategy through predictive modeling and statistical analysis, working with product, risk, and operations teams to optimize growth while reducing fraud and chargebacks. This role suits experienced data scientists with expertise in experimentation, causal inference, and machine learning who want to tackle high-impact problems at the intersection of commerce and risk.

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Intuit

Mountain View, CA · $210,500 – $284,500

A senior data scientist role leading analytics and measurement for TurboTax's emerging growth initiatives, particularly around new customer and expert platform experiences. This suits someone who excels in ambiguous, early-stage environments and can translate complex data into clear strategic direction for executive leaders.

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Circle

San Francisco, CA · $195,000 – $257,500 · Remote

Circle seeks a Staff Data Scientist to build measurement frameworks and drive analytics for their digital assets products, particularly USDC. This role suits analysts with deep SQL and statistical expertise who want to influence fintech strategy through data-driven insights on blockchain-based financial products.

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Bend Studio

Los Angeles, CA · $167,200 – $250,800

A strategic data science role focused on quantifying player value and informing investment decisions across PlayStation's portfolio. This position suits experienced data scientists who enjoy owning complex, ambiguous business problems and combining technical rigor with stakeholder influence to drive growth.

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Suno

Full-time · Los Angeles, CA · $220,000 – $320,000

Suno is seeking a data scientist to lead analytics and experimentation for their mobile music creation app, partnering with product and engineering teams to identify what drives user engagement and creativity. This role suits someone with strong consumer tech data science experience who is excited about AI tools and wants to shape how millions of people experience creative expression.

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Gofundme

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $179,500 – $269,500

This role leads pricing science and donation optimization at GoFundMe, applying economics, behavioral modeling, and machine learning to understand donor decision-making and improve conversion. It suits experienced data scientists or economists who have shipped pricing or marketplace systems and want to combine rigorous causal inference with product impact.

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Intuit

Mountain View, CA · $210,500 – $284,500

Intuit is looking for an experienced data scientist to lead their talent acquisition analytics strategy, combining hiring forecasting, funnel modeling, and AI-native tools with advisory leadership of their People Analytics team. This role suits someone who can translate business strategy into data insights, operate as a trusted advisor to HR leadership, and connect hiring patterns with broader workforce trends.

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Bend Studio

San Diego, CA · $143,400 – $215,000

A data scientist role focused on PlayStation's direct-to-consumer payments and subscriptions business, using statistics, experimentation, and machine learning to optimize payment flows and improve customer outcomes. Suited for someone who can own analyses independently, work with ambiguous problems, and translate findings into actionable business recommendations.

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Intuit

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $149,500 – $202,500

This senior data scientist role owns demand forecasting across a portfolio of business solutions, building and maintaining models that translate market signals into accurate forecasts that shape capacity and expense planning. It suits someone with strong time-series modeling and SQL/Python skills who enjoys working on high-impact analytical problems that influence cross-functional leaders and senior stakeholders.

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Intuit

San Diego, CA · $185,500 – $251,000

This Staff Data Scientist role leads Voice of the Customer analytics at Intuit, translating customer feedback into actionable insights that drive retention, revenue, and product strategy. The position suits experienced data scientists who can architect scalable AI systems, mentor teams, and influence executive decisions through rigorous statistical and machine learning analysis.

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