Strategic Data Scientist, Quantum Analytics

IBM; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Quantum is recruiting an Advisory Data Scientist to generate high-impact insights, build scalable analytics, and guide decision-making across client-facing teams. You will translate complex data into actionable analytics, collaborate with product, hardware, software, and leadership teams, and design models and dashboards to enable data‑driven decisions across IBM Quantum.

The role emphasizes designing scalable data solutions, standardizing metrics, and delivering governance‑driven analytics

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or analytics engineering roles.
• Proficiency in SQL for data analysis, transformation, and metrics development.
• Hands-on Python for data analysis and statistical modeling.
• Experience designing analytical data models (dimensional models, semantic layers).
• Experience building production-grade analytical pipelines (Airflow or similar).
• Strong data visualization skills for business and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to define and operationalize business metrics across teams.
• Familiarity with analytics engineering best practices: data testing, version control, modular development.
• Experience applying statistical methods for decision-making.
• Experience with heterogeneous datasets and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Generate actionable insights from complex datasets to inform business decisions.
• Design and scale data models and semantic layers to support self-service analytics.
• Develop, maintain, and operationalize analytics pipelines and dashboards.
• Collaborate with product, hardware, software, and client-facing teams to translate requirements into analytical solutions.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data Modeling

ETL Pipelines

Data Visualization

Cross-functional Collaboration

Statistical Analysis

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Superset

Tableau

Cognos Analytics

Job description

IBM Quantum is recruiting an Advisory Data Scientist to generate high-impact insights, build scalable analytics, and guide decision-making across client-facing teams. You will translate complex data into actionable analytics, collaborate with product, hardware, software, and leadership teams, and design models and dashboards to enable data‑driven decisions across IBM Quantum.

The role emphasizes designing scalable data solutions, standardizing metrics, and delivering governance‑driven analytics