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Data Science Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 135+ data science jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 23 new this week. Hiring companies include Merck, Esri, and Anthropic.

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generous PTO 29
flexible hours 3
unlimited PTO 34
best places to work 45
generous parental leave 17

Updated September 11, 2026

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Forward Deployed Engineer

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SecurityScorecard · Remote · USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTOPro · early access

DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINEER

3mo

Brightbeam · Remote · Waterford, Ireland

83 · Great4 Day Work Week€70k – €110k

Data Engineer

Ledgebrook · Remote · USA or Canada

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$100k – $170k

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Marketing Analytics Director

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · USA

72 · GreatGenerous PTO$179k – $214k

Marketing Analytics Director

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · Canada

72 · GreatGenerous PTO$181k – $217k

Solution Architect

ServiceNow · Remote · Addison, TX, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Solution Architect

ServiceNow · Remote · Frankfurt, Germany

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Measurement Analyst

Power Digital · Remote · Ecuador

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Solutions Engineer, AI/ML

10d

Cake · Remote · USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Software Engineer in Test

1mo

Roadie · Remote · USA

69 · GoodRotating 4 Day Week

Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Music Mission

15d

Spotify · Remote · New York, NY or Boston, MA

64 · GoodGenerous PTO$227k – $325k

Engineering Manager, Identification Accuracy

3mo

Fingerprint · Remote · Worldwide

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$159k – $215k

Senior Manager, Data Science & Analytics (Americas)

3mo

Customer.io · Remote · North America or South America

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO$170k – $240k

Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer

1mo

Hungryroot · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$170k – $210k

Head of AI

1mo

AssetWatch · Remote · USA or Canada

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$244k – $282k

Engineering Manager, Pro Feedback and Targeting

1mo

Thumbtack · Remote · Canada

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$231k – $299k

Senior Performance Engineer, Data Products

1mo

Turquoise Health · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$172k – $195k

Sr. Director, Field Technology and AI

3mo

Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$212k – $336k

Staff Data Scientist

21d

DuckDuckGo · Remote · Slovakia +23 more

61 · GoodFlexible Hours$222k

Senior ML/AI Modeler, Risk Automation Machine Learning

22d

Block · Remote · California, USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$229k – $343k

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Employers hiring for Data Science on this page include Merck, Esri, and Anthropic. Data Science roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Data Science is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Data Science roles span the full seniority range — we list 135 open roles requiring Data Science across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Data Science hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Data Science roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Data Science candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Data Science on current listings.

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Browse 135+ data science jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 23 new this week. Hiring companies include Merck, Esri, and Anthropic.

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