53 Companies Hiring Data Scientists

Data science jobs at these companies require knowledge of relevant tools and programming languages.

Written by Margo Steines
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Rose Velazquez | Dec 19, 2024

With the rise of big data, companies need skilled professionals who can transform massive amounts of data into valuable business insights. Data scientists’ work fuels business intelligence solutions that can support various teams, including marketing, product development, tech support and people management. Here’s a list of companies hiring data scientists to draw on their expertise with programming languages, data tools and problem solving.

Companies Hiring Data Scientists

  • McDonald’s Global Technology
  • Smartly
  • Grammarly
  • Block
  • Datadog
  • Integral Ad Science
  • Spring Health

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Companies Hiring Data Scientists

Integral Ad Science uses data and tech solutions to help its clients overcome challenges in areas like ad fraud, viewability and contextual targeting. Digital advertisers and publishers work with Integral Ad Science to address issues like whether ad views represent real people or bots, and whether their ads are displayed in proximity to offensive content. The company is recruiting for its data science team, which participates in projects that impact its core products and processes. 

 

MetLife is a financial services company that offers employee benefits, insurance, annuities, and asset management. As an insurance provider, it offers coverage for health, property and finances, as well as solutions to protect businesses. Data science helps to fuel strategic decision making at MetLife, and the company hires professionals with data expertise to drive innovation for its customers as well as internal teams.

 

Grammarly is a software company that makes a cloud-based composition product that uses AI to scan written work and suggest improvements for grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity and other facets of writing quality. The company works with large data sets and employs data scientists who are proficient in programming languages like SQL, Python, R and Scala

 

Hinge makes a social connection and dating network where users can browse for and communicate with potential friends and romantic partners. Functioning as a digital matchmaker, the platform uses advanced algorithm strategy, powered by AI, to create recommendation networks that respond to subtle user inputs. Hinge seeks data scientists to join its team. 

 

DraftKings is a digital sports entertainment and gaming company that provides sports fans with solutions to fuel competition across areas including daily fantasy, regulated gaming and digital media. The company offers real-money games and betting experiences. Its products include DraftKings Sportsbook for mobile and retail sports betting operations. It also offers a daily fantasy sports product that is available in most U.S. states, several Canadian provinces and the U.K.

 

Empower aims to allow users to make changes to their credit, gain access to fair credit and get the money they need. It consistently hires for an array of data scientist roles for APAC and domestically. The company’s data scientists enable the whole model development process.

 

Mondelez International is a multinational food and beverage company that produces an iconic portfolio of global snack brands that includes well-known names like OREO, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Sour Patch Kids, Wheat Thins and Stride gum. Mondelez International seeks data scientists to work in countries like the United Kingdom, India and Mexico.

 

ZS is a management consulting and technology firm that helps modernize spaces like the healthcare industry. It helps companies increase customer value and solve business challenges. ZS’ consultation process brings business to R&D, commercial model designs and supply chain and manufacturing optimization.

 

The Kraft Heinz Company is an enterprise food and beverage company that makes classic products like Heinz Ketchup and Kraft Mac & Cheese, relying heavily on food tech and data analysis to streamline and scale its operations. Kraft Heinz is hiring data scientists with machine learning expertise to develop algorithms for demand forecasting.

 

Bridge Legal is a software tech firm in the legal sector. It offers digital tools to law firms that facilitate collaboration between attorneys, support staff, litigation funders and legal marketers. These tools support business operations, case management, document workflow and marketing. Data scientists are critical members of the Bridge Legal team, which is currently expanding.

 

Upstart offers an AI-powered lending platform that uses variables like education and employment to assess borrower risk, rather than merely credit score or income. The company’s platform connects consumers with banks and credit unions that leverage its technology to offer personal loans, home equity lines of credit and more. Its technology aims to predicts how creditworthy an applicant is while also reducing bias and administering lines of credit more equitably.

 

Financial services company Northwestern Mutual works to help families and businesses achieve financial security. The company offers solutions covering life, disability income and long-term care insurance as well as annuities, brokerage and advisory services, trust services and portfolio management solutions. Northwestern Mutual holds $125 billion in client assets for its wealth management and investment offerings.

 

Optimum is an American telecommunications company that handles cable television, internet, cell phone and landline service for business and residential customers. It’s a Fortune 500 company and the fourth largest provider of telecom services in the United States It seeks data scientists to join its data and analytics teams. 

 

Adyen offers a platform that accepts online, in-person and app payments, prevents fraud and optimizes revenue. The fintech company has a global sales team across over two dozen offices in locations that include Mexico City, Shanghai, Toronto and Chicago. It provides a single solution with data-driven insights, financial products and end-to-end payment solutions. 

 

E-commerce company Zoro offers a marketplace platform that enables customers to shop for business operations equipment. Its featured services include products for industries such as machining, safety, offices and schools. Its users can search for, order and ship tools and supplies. 

 

Cencora works in the pharmaceutical industry to provide services that include wholesale drug sourcing, distribution, pharmaceutical research and other pharma-sector business solutions. Its clients include individual and hospital medical practices, pharmacies and veterinary providers. 

 

Klaviyo’s marketing automation platform helps brands personalize customer messaging across email, SMS and mobile push notifications. The company has more than 1,500 global team members, including data scientists who are tasked with building, training and deploying models for projects in collaboration with various teams and stakeholders throughout the organization.

 

Achieve makes financial products that help consumers recover from debt and achieve financial independence. It extends debt consolidation services, debt resolution management and financial education tools to its users through its digital products. It also offers personal, home equity and acceleration loans to qualified customers. The company relies on its team of data scientists to build and manage its data assets and is currently seeking to expand the roster. 

 

Cox Enterprises is the global conglomerate holding company for Cox Media Group, Cox Automotive and Cox Communications. It spans sectors that include telecommunications, automotive and media industries and owns a variety of national brands like Kelley Blue Book and AutoTrader. The company started as a local newspaper business, and has since become international with operations spread across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

 

John Deere is an agriculture and forestry manufacturer of heavy equipment and machinery. It also offers tech solutions and precision tools. The company’s “See & Spray” tool, for example, allows users to target weeds instead of crops with its vision-based system. 

 

Garner Health uses its vast healthcare database to connect people with medical providers who can best meet their needs. The healthtech company has open data science roles and supports its employees through benefits such as unlimited PTO, remote work flexibility and reimbursements for eligible medical expenses.

 

Rocket Travel, a brand under travel platform Agoda, serves as a strategic partner to businesses across the spectrum of travel and hospitality. It works with clients to create branded sites where users can accumulate rewards and loyalty points to drive sales. Data scientists at Rocket Travel typically come from computer science, statistics and mathematics backgrounds and are proficient in Python and SQL.

 

Caterpillar builds and sells equipment such as excavators and rotary drills along with parts, power systems and technology solutions that have uses across industries such as construction and mining. The company’s team of digital experts includes data scientists who need to be able to build data models and deliver insights that support data-driven business decisions.

 

Cash App is a mobile finance solution that allows people to send instant payments and save on spending. Alongside its money-sending and savings tools, CashApp encompasses products like Afterpay, which works to improve how people spend, invest and borrow money. The company’s goal is to make money more relatable, instantly available and universally accessible.

 

Gusto’s specialty is HR technology that gives businesses the software solutions necessary for processes such as collecting employee feedback, benefits administration, payroll, onboarding and hiring. The company’s engineers and data scientists work to optimize products for industries that include real estate, construction, manufacturing and healthcare. 

 

RunPod says it has plans to hire a Data Scientist to work remotely within the United States. The company offers a cloud platform to support machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads. It services solutions that include training, deploying and growing AI models. 

 

Block is a fintech company focused on digital payment processing solutions for businesses and consumers. The parent company of Square and Cash App, Block’s tech allows users to accept point-of-sale payments on tablets, process credit card payments on site and make digital peer-to-peer transactions. The company needs experienced data scientists to work across its brands to support business units like Square’s restaurant division and Cash App’s support team.

 

McDonald’s is an iconic enterprise food and beverage retailer with a global franchise network of fast casual restaurants of more than 36,000 locations. The company uses significant tech, including AI and machine learning, in its operations and is currently hiring data professionals for consumer data science, data and analytics, supply chain data and machine learning operations roles. 

 

Warner Bros. Discovery is a media and entertainment company that owns and operates an array of brands that include HBO, CNN, Animal Planet and HGTV. The company also owns television, movie and video game production studios. It distributes its digital film, television and streaming services to more than 200 countries worldwide. 

 

Atlassian helps teams organize and complete projects with products like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Trello and OpsGenie. The company is hiring across many teams, and employees can choose whether they work in-office or remotely.

 

Chamberlain Group serves as the parent company to several companies in the home industrial space, all focusing on design and engineering for gates and doors, like residential garage doors, commercial doors and gate entry systems. The company’s most popular product line is the myQ smart access ecosystem that allows homeowners and businesses to monitor their property from anywhere. The corporation seeks data scientists for roles across the brands. 

 

Fintech company Kikoff offers flexible financing solutions that help consumers build positive payment history so they can improve their credit scores. Kikoff’s data scientists need lots of experience with SQL and Python and must be comfortable collaborating with other teams like product and engineering.

 

Notion is a software company that offers a tool for organization and productivity. Its signature platform includes collaboration tools and streamlined interfaces for the processes that every professional has to attend to: note taking, calendars, collaborative documents and maintaining digital assets. Notion specializes in making simple work out of admin and workflow elements that need daily maintenance and attention, and which must be handled simultaneously with other team members. The company is hiring data scientists across its team.

 

Marketing technology company Smartly specializes in AI-powered social media advertising, providing a comprehensive suite of SaaS tools to minimize manual tasks and expand customer reach. Smartly’s platform automates campaign management and creative production while leveraging artificial intelligence and data capabilities.

 

Grainger distributes maintenance, repair and operating products to over 4.5 millions customers around the world. It uses advanced tech like machine learning and cloud automations to address customer needs while also creating enterprise solutions to help clients increase their own operational efficiency. The company is on the lookout for talented data professionals to join its team.

 

SaaS platform Dropbox provides a cloud-based solution for storing and sharing files alongside a suite of products including its AI-powered tools. The company is building out its team with data scientists who will work alongside its engineering and product organizations to grow revenue, optimize its product, scale and monetize the business and launch impactful initiatives.

 

Novo Nordisk is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing and providing access to treatment for chronic illnesses. It conducts clinical trials for innovative medical treatments with an aim to have a positive impact on those who have long term illnesses. The company says it hires steadily for data scientists and is largely searching in Seattle, Boston and Plainsboro, New Jersey. 

 

SoFi develops financial products and services to simplify how people borrow, save, spend, invest and protect their money. The company works to help its users achieve financial independence and reach milestones like owning a home, saving for retirement and paying off student loans.

 

InterSystems makes software and other technology products for data management in the healthcare, financial services and logistics sectors. Its cloud data products include InterSystems IRIS, which brings together a database management platform, generative AI, embedded machine learning models and high-level security to create a fully operational ecosystem for even the most sensitive data. Intersystems is currently recruiting data scientists.

 

NinjaHoldings offers digital finance products that include its comprehensive financial services platform where users can obtain products and services like credit or payment cards and loans. It serves clients with lower credit scores using CreditNinja, which helps users rebuild their credit. The company recruits across design, engineering and data sciences. 

 

JellyFish makes an engineering management platform that’s designed to help software teams align their activities with business objectives. The company is hiring data scientists to work collaboratively with stakeholders across a wide range of departments, from customer success to product development, to offer data insights that are understandable and answer important business questions. 

 

Chewy is a U.S.-based online pet retailer that combines the convenience and speed of e-commerce with the personal touch of a neighborhood pet store, offering over 3,500 brands of pet products and a monthly subscription for recurring deliveries of pet supplies. The company is currently hiring for various roles as it seeks to expand its team.

 

Celonis is a software company that offers a platform for “process mining,” which creates a digital twin representing a client business’s internal processes, with the goal of helping them improve efficiency and align teams across the organization. Celonis is seeking experienced applicants for its product analytics and data sciences team, which delivers insights to inform strategic decision making.

 

PagerDuty’s solutions help companies improve digital experiences for their customers. It helps immediately identify issues and opportunities in their digital operations. The company works to ensure the most appropriate team can quickly respond to issues and prevent future problems.

 

Arity is a technology company that works to make transportation more intelligent, safe and useful. The company leverages large quantities of data to provide companies with actionable insights that can help them better predict risk and make smarter decisions.

 

TransUnion is a financial software company that operates as a consumer credit bureau and reporting agency. It monitors the creditworthiness of individuals and provides stakeholders with consumer information like how often a person pays their bills on time and what their credit utilization ratio is. The company also provides financial fraud detection, marketing and analytics tools and services, and is actively hiring data scientists.

 

2K is a video game studio that has created a variety of popular franchises that include NBA 2K, XCOM and Borderlands. It employs engineers, artists, game scientists and other video game professionals. The company uses building models and gaming data to improve its games. 

 

Philo provides entertainment solutions that allow users to access TV channels, unlimited DVR and streaming on multiple devices without a cable subscription. The company leverages data to make informed business decisions, analyze and improve the quality of its streaming experience, run product experiments to optimize its signup flows and make it easier for users to find content they’ll want to watch.

 

Datadog offers a cloud monitoring SaaS product that keeps tabs on client assets like cloud infrastructure, network devices and cloud-based applications. The software provides metrics and insights on how client IT systems are working. Datadog seeks data scientists with experience designing, prototyping, scaling and launching data science projects. 

 

Chapter is a healthtech company that operates a Medicare navigation platform where users can connect with trained and licensed advisors who will counsel them on how to best access Medicare services. Advisors guide clients on issues like drug coverage, hearing benefits, vision benefits, dental care and other concerns relevant to older adults. The company is hiring for a data scientist who can focus on product analytics. 

 

PNC Bank is a personal banking company that provides banking services including credit cards, home and auto loans, checking and savings accounts and retirement accounts. It serves individuals, small businesses, and corporate and institutional clients as well. PNC also offers a mobile app that lets users open new accounts, deposit checks, check balances and make bill payments. 

 

Flatiron Health is a healthtech company working to improve and extend people’s lives. The company leverages machine learning and AI, real-world evidence and clinical trial discoveries to gather information from patient experiences. This knowledge may ultimately lead to a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem.

 

Spring Health is a medtech company with a platform for personalized employee mental healthcare. It relies heavily on AI to personalize and scale its offerings, pairing machine learning with client assessment to deliver customized resource matches. The company’s data scientists need to have experience with developing predictive models, analyzing data for actionable insights and knowledge of relevant data visualization and dashboarding tools.

 

Mia Goulart, Sara B.T. Thiel, Ashley Bowden and Ana Gore contributed reporting to this story.

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