Position Summary

San Diego State University is hiring a Data Scientist to join Analytic Studies & Institutional Research (ASIR), a team that sits at the center of academic planning, student success analytics, institutional reporting, and strategic decision-making. This is a builder role for someone who likes solving data problems, designing scalable analytics workflows, engineering reliable datasets, and developing analytical products that people use to make decisions. You’ll work across data engineering, business intelligence, analytics, and institutional strategy—partnering with technical and non-technical stakeholders to develop data solutions that improve how SDSU understands enrollment, student outcomes, academic operations, and institutional effectiveness. This work combines systems thinking, statistical reasoning, programming, data architecture, and communication. The right person for this role is energized by complexity, motivated by accuracy, and genuinely ...