Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $161,000 |
| Median | $195,000 |
| 75th percentile | $237,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $515,000 |
| Listings counted | 239 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | 88 | $178,000 |
| Lead | 9 | $207,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Capital One | 33 | $154,000 |
| OpenAI | 15 | $396,000 |
| Roblox | 8 | $293,000 |
| 7 | $214,000 | |
| 6 | $270,000 | |
| Waymo | 6 | $248,000 |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | 6 | $185,000 |
| PayPal | 6 | $178,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 213 | $193,000 | $160,000 to $239,000 |
OpenAI · 5mo ago
The GTM Data Science team partners with Go-to-Market, Technical Success, Product, Engineering, RevOps, and Strategic Finance to build the shared intelligence layer for OpenAI's B2B business.
We operate at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Risk, Finance, and Go-to-Market to ensure that paying for OpenAI products is seamless, reliable, scalable, and globally optimized.
As the Lead Data Scientist for SMB Ads Growth, you will architect the analytics function end-to-end—driving strategy across targeting, funnel optimization, and performance forecasting.
As the Data Scientist for Ads Demand, you will build the measurement and insight foundation for understanding demand health and advertiser value across the marketplace.
We’re looking for a product data scientist to help OpenAI create more value and drive sustainable growth for young people, families, and learners.
We are hiring a Data Scientist to help build OpenAI's B2B ecosystem and go-to-market data science capability.
Cloud service providers give developers a way to use OpenAI models in the environments where they already build and run software.
OpenAI · 21d ago
The Strategic Finance team at OpenAI plays a critical role in shaping the company’s long-term trajectory. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to inform high-stakes decisions through rigorous data science and economic modeling.
OpenAI · 28d ago
We work across product, growth, and monetization to help people get more value from OpenAI’s products. We identify opportunities for machine learning, build and test early solutions, and partner with engineering and product to bring successful approaches into production.
The Strategic Finance Data Science team helps OpenAI understand business performance and make informed decisions about growth, revenue, and resource allocation.
We partner closely with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to ensure experiments are trustworthy, statistically rigorous, and scalable to the needs of frontier AI products.
We are hiring a Data Scientist to lead measurement, experimentation, and decision science for B2B marketing demand generation. You will help us understand which marketing investments create incremental demand, qualified pipeline, and revenue and how to scale them efficiently.
We’re hiring a Data Scientist to support Real Estate & Workplace (REW), a fast-moving global team focused on creating workplaces that help OpenAI’s people do their best work while scaling the company’s real estate and workplace operations.
As part of our growing Data Science and Analytics team, you will play an instrumental role in our company’s mission of building safe and beneficial artificial intelligence by driving data-informed decision making across our organization.
The Preparedness team is an important part of the Safety Systems org at OpenAI, and is guided by OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework . Frontier AI models have the potential to benefit all of humanity, but also pose increasingly severe risks.
We tackle some of the company’s most important challenges across understanding and preventing misuse and misalignment, intercepting fraud and abuse, and protecting vulnerable users.
Provide Technical Leadership to the team of Data Scientists and Engineers working on global deployment at scale of GPU Compute services.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
As an early member of our Safeguards Data Science and Analytics team, you will play an instrumental role in our company’s mission of building safe and beneficial artificial intelligence by building and scaling a data driven culture from the ground up.
As part of our growing Data Science & Analytics team, you will play an instrumental role in Anthropic's mission of building safe and beneficial AI — this time by driving data-informed decisions across the commercial customer lifecycle.
As part of our growing Data Science and Analytics team, you will play a key role in Anthropic's mission of building safe and beneficial AI by driving data-informed decision-making across the organization.
The Growth team's job is to keep Anthropic on the exponential by getting more people and companies using and paying for Claude.
Set the scientific direction for high-impact Consumer problems spanning discovery, relevance, personalization, user growth, retention, content, and communities. Build a durable understanding of users, their intent, their needs, and the behaviors that lead to lasting value.
Define the future of Ads Data Science: Own the design and long-term evolution of our core Ads Data Science solutions and infrastructure, building for the next several years of continued scale, revenue growth, and relevance.
Pinterest · 1mo ago
Lead by example, and mentor a diverse team of analytics engineers with an inclusive culture. Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation and communicate those to product engineering teams.
Develop a deep, nuanced understanding of the Pinterest trust and safety platform, quantifying full funnel opportunities and risks. Lead projects on: Trust and Safety opportunities across different funnel stages.
Focus on building and deploying machine learning solutions for design tools, analyzing user data to drive product improvements.
GenAI System Development: Design, build, and improve GenAI-powered and agentic systems supporting ASIC semiconductor engineering workflows such as code generation, data extraction, analytics, documentation automation, failure triage, root cause analysis, and technical knowledge…
As a Data Scientist on the Digital Experience Insights team, you'll lead high-impact analytics initiatives, turning complex data, platform, and time-series data into rigorous predictive models, causal inferences, and strategic product metrics.
Serve as the technical authority on relevance metrics and evaluation methodology across Consumer, setting standards for how we measure the quality of feeds, search results, and recommendations in a complex, community-driven environment.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
As a Data Scientist on Growth Monetization, you'll drive all things monetization from the data science perspective: how we price, package, convert, and retain. That spans our subscription business today and new business bets we're actively exploring.
As a data Scientist on Growth Product, you'll own the analytics for the early-life user journey: everything from the moment someone lands on Suno through their first sessions, first songs, and first reasons to come back.
Finding joy through being creative is inherent in human nature. The Consumer Create team is building experiences to enable users to entertain themselves through their own creativity. We are hiring a data scientist to be a thought leader on this new team.
As a Senior Data Scientist on Content + Social, you'll build the analytical foundation for how people discover, listen to, share, and engage with music on Suno.
Discord · 2mo ago
Formulate the vision and set the roadmap for the future of the Experimentation Platform, in partnership with engineering, product, and data science stakeholders.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Scientist to join our team and play a pivotal role in developing and deploying cutting-edge autonomous driving technologies.
Lead the design of metrics and evaluation frameworks for new perception capabilities, partnering with perception engineers early in model development to define what "ready to ship" means and how it connects to end-to-end driving behavior.
Design the Future of Ads Identity: Develop/employ probabilistic models for identity resolution. Design the methodology that links on-platform and off-platform actions to maximize addressability while honoring privacy.
Reddit is looking for a highly experienced Staff Data Scientist to lead the strategy and technical execution of our Marketing Intelligence efforts. In this role, you will be the primary architect of how we measure and optimize Reddit’s marketing spend.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Character.AI is building the future of open-ended interactions between people and intelligent agents. As our platform scales, so does the opportunity to build sustainable, user-aligned monetization through subscriptions, advertising, and virtual currency economies.
In this role, you will guide product development and executive decisions with data.
Baton Corporation Ltd · 10d ago
We're making a founding hire: a Staff Data Scientist in Marketing Science to own the mathematics behind our paid growth - the causal measurement, the response curves, the customer-value models and the optimisation that decide where our multi-million-dollar, always-on…
We're looking for a Senior/Staff Data Scientists to turn that record into a lending decision, partnering closely with Credit, Product, and Engineering.
We're looking for a Senior/Staff Data Scientists to turn that record into a lending decision, partnering closely with Credit, Product, and Engineering.
The median Data Scientist salary in our $100k+ listings is $195,000 a year, based on 239 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $161,000 to $237,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Data Scientist roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Data Scientist listings range from $100,000 to $515,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $161,000 and the 75th percentile is $237,000.
Median pay by level in our $100k+ listings: senior $178,000 (88 listings), lead $207,000 (9 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Data Scientist listings are Capital One (33 listings, median $154,000), OpenAI (15 listings, median $396,000), Roblox (8 listings, median $293,000), Pinterest (7 listings, median $214,000) and Reddit (6 listings, median $270,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 12, 2026.
Yes. Each listing is tagged remote, hybrid or on-site, and remote roles carry a region (US only, EMEA, APAC or global), so you can filter the live job list to the arrangement you want.
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