Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $149,000 |
| Median | $177,000 |
| 75th percentile | $209,000 |
| Lowest listing | $110,000 |
| Highest listing | $323,000 |
| Listings counted | 90 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Capital One | 15 | $142,000 |
| Roblox | 6 | $293,000 |
| PayPal | 4 | $178,000 |
| 3 | $214,000 | |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | 3 | $185,000 |
| Oura | 3 | $175,000 |
| Waymo | 2 | $235,000 |
| Plaid | 2 | $227,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 77 | $174,000 | $145,000 to $200,000 |
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 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.
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.
Deep strategic analysis to answer core questions such as: How do we assess the trade-off between metrics change? How should we evaluate overall impact from changes in one component of the ads ecosystem? Opportunity sizing and analysis.
Deep strategic analysis to answer growth marketing ecosystem questions such as how to drive monthly active users from paid performance marketing, how to quantify the effect of paid performance marketing in new markets, how to drive user engagement and user LTV (lifetime value)…
Analyze advertiser behavior across the end-to-end funnel to identify factors influencing acquisition, conversion, retention and churn.
Own the enforcement lifecycle. Lead a defined abuse or enforcement problem from problem framing and signal discovery through labels and taxonomies, model or rule development, thresholding, rollout, monitoring, and iteration. Discover and characterize abuse.
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist, Transparency and Regulatory, to join the Analytics team, where you will own the data and drive data tooling behind transparency reports Epic publishes under regulations such as the DSA, and support risk assessments, audits, compliance…
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.
Waymo · 2mo ago
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.
At Embedded Insights, we find the best machine learning opportunities for external products and internal systems, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to bring them to life.
You’ll be a Data Scientist supporting Credit, a critical product area within Plaid’s Network Value portfolio.
Through Acceptance Analytics and Intelligence and Visa Intelligent Commerce, we’re developing data products that connect information and surface actionable insights for Visa clients. We are looking for a curious, versatile Senior Applied Scientist to help advance this work.
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.
We’re growing, and we’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist (Applied ML) to join us as a foundational member of our new team.
We’re looking for Data Scientists who can help us build our analytics engine by making meaning from data and identifying opportunities for improvement.
To that end, we are hiring a Machine Learning-focused Data Scientist to support our Risk team.
As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll work directly with clients and our internal delivery teams to build and deploy AI-powered solutions that transform how work gets done.
The mission of the Clear Street Active team is to provide best execution for every asset class in every market.
This person will be part of our Growth Data Science team, collaborating with peers and cross-functional partners in Product, Finance, and Strategy to continuously improve our forecasting capabilities.
This job will lead the development and implementation of advanced data science models and algorithms. You will work with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
This job will lead the development and implementation of advanced data science models and algorithms. You will work with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
Data Scientist to show the impact our work has for customers. You'll measure how each engagement moves customers' pipeline and renewals, build the value analysis customers and leadership rely on, and work hands-on with the senior data scientists on customer models.
The Data Science team is responsible for leveraging our most valuable asset—our data—to generate meaningful value for our members.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory · 3d ago
At PNNL, our core capabilities are divided among major departments that we refer to as Directorates within the Lab, focused on a specific area of scientific research or other function, with its own leadership team and dedicated budget.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory · 6d ago
At PNNL, our core capabilities are divided among major departments that we refer to as Directorates within the Lab, focused on a specific area of scientific research or other function, with its own leadership team and dedicated budget.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory · 6d ago
At PNNL, our core capabilities are divided among major departments that we refer to as Directorates within the Lab, focused on a specific area of scientific research or other function, with its own leadership team and dedicated budget.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
We are looking for a Senior Product Data Scientist who is deeply product-minded and highly proactive. This is not a role for someone who waits for perfectly defined questions or works in isolation.
As the first Senior Data Scientist for Product, you’ll partner with our product, design, and engineering teams to understand user behavior, identify opportunities, and measure the impact of what we build.
The Data Scientist, Product Growth and Experimentation will help drive decision making in support of our Product Led Growth function. This role sits at the intersection of Data, Product, Growth, and GTM.
At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development.
As a Senior Data Scientist, you are an inquisitive problem solver who is keen to practice full-stack data science, with experience ranging from crafting data extraction pipelines to finding patterns and anomalies in data.
Data/AI Solutions Engineer role will be responsible for driving data-driven decision making across the organization.
In this role, you'll take on some of the hardest questions about Airbnb's workforce - how we recruit, pay, develop, and retain our people - partnering with leaders across Recruiting, Compensation, Talent, and the wider business to turn rigorous analysis into decisions they act…
You will join a collaborative team of data scientists, analysts, engineers, product managers and designers who build innovative products for Airbnb guests and hosts.
We're looking for a data-driven professional to help us measure, understand, and improve the performance of our risk strategies — and to stay ahead of evolving fraud threats by designing and deploying data-driven solutions with real-world impact.
As a Senior Data Scientist on HTS you will own the analytical relationship with a portfolio of partners and build the machinery that answers their questions about supply health, pricing competitiveness and performance once, then answers them every week.
We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to measure, understand, and help optimize Coalition’s insurance business. You’ll use analytics, experimentation, and modern statistical techniques to improve the cyber insurance customer experience and grow revenue safely and efficiently.
We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our innovative team. In this role, you will focus on improving the accuracy of the Fingerprint Pro Identification Service by applying advanced data science and machine learning techniques in a high-load real-time service setting.
Build and evolve reliability and quality models for current and next-generation Oura Ring products, including warranty forecasts, runtime degradation, survival analysis, failure-mode prediction, and cohort-based field-performance analysis.
Contribute to the development and deployment of advanced machine learning pipelines and models for innovative Women's Health features, focusing on time-series analysis and robust validation.
Develop models and optimization approaches that improve upper-funnel marketing performance, such as spend allocation, channel mix optimization, budget pacing, media efficiency measurement, audience strategy, and forecasted revenue impact.
The median Senior Data Scientist salary in our $100k+ listings is $177,000 a year, based on 90 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $149,000 to $209,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Senior Data Scientist roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Senior Data Scientist listings range from $110,000 to $323,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $149,000 and the 75th percentile is $209,000.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Senior Data Scientist listings are Capital One (15 listings, median $142,000), Roblox (6 listings, median $293,000), PayPal (4 listings, median $178,000), Pinterest (3 listings, median $214,000) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (3 listings, median $185,000).
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 13, 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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