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Data Scientist

Analyzes data and builds statistical and ML models to answer business questions.

Also seen as: Applied Data Scientist, Product Data Scientist

19
open jobs tracked
5
companies hiring
0
remote openings
n/a
salary not disclosed

Market status: established · Last updated Sep 29, 2026 · Source: public employer job postings tracked by AI Career Observatory

What does a Data Scientist do?

Data Scientists turn data into decisions: exploratory analysis, experimentation, statistical modeling, forecasting and increasingly working with LLM-based analysis tools. In AI companies the role often focuses on evaluation analytics, product metrics and experimentation.

Job titles we classify into this role

Real, current titles from tracked postings — role names vary by employer; this is what a Data Scientist actually looks like in the market right now.

  • PhD Intern, Data Science (2027) Figma
  • Data Science Intern (2027) Figma
  • Senior Data Scientist, Growth Glean
  • Senior Data Scientist, Growth Glean
  • Director, Data Science Figma
  • Data Scientist Asana
  • Data Scientist, Finance Figma
  • Data Scientist, Safeguards Anthropic

Title variants normalized into this role: Applied Data Scientist · Product Data Scientist — plus employer-specific patterns matched with evidence. See classification methodology.

Skills employers ask for

Share of tracked Data Scientist postings mentioning each skill (n = 19).

SQL
84%
Python
84%
Spark
42%
LLM
37%
dbt
16%
AI Agents
16%
MLflow
5%
MCP
5%

Current Data Scientist jobs

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Companies hiring Data Scientists

Salary

Not enough disclosed salary data yet for a reliable statistic.

We currently track 0 disclosed ranges for this role. We do not manufacture estimates from titles. See raw disclosures →

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