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Technology

Data Scientist in San Francisco

136 postings read · sampled 2026-08-02 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 136 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

None. Across 136 postings, no certification or licence was named often enough to call it a requirement. For this role in this market, employers are hiring on demonstrated work rather than credentials — which means money spent on a certificate here is unlikely to be what gets you the interview.

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$99,170
10th percentile
$170,110
median
$272,430
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

OpenAI · Roblox · Anthropic · Scale AI · Pinterest · Databricks · Chime · Lyft · Mercor · Figma · Robinhood · Faire · Gusto · Harvey · Perplexity · SoFi · 1X · Asana · Attentive · Baseten · Cursor · Discord · OpenEvidence · Physical Intelligence · Rocket Money · Stripe · Zip

The same role elsewhere

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