Do you love math but are unsure about what types of jobs exist outside of academia for math majors? Fortunately, this is a great time to be a math major, because as math drives innovation it also drives careers. Here are profiles of 17 people who turned their aptitude for and love of math into rewarding and diverse careers in business, industry, and government. They provide unique perspectives through their early influences and career path choices, and useful advice to math majors seeking careers outside of academia.
Advanced Analytics Consultant
Promontory Growth and Innovation, Washington, DC
Risk Analyst, Reporting and Position Control
Phillips 66, Commercial Organization, Houston, Texas
Research Staff Member and Research Relationship Manager, Chemicals and Petroleum
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
Senior Research Scientist
Nuance Communications, Inc., Sunnyvale California
Research Staff Member, Math Sciences and Analytics
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
Applied and Computational Mathematician
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
Sandia National Labs, Livermore, California
Associate Director, Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey
Applied Research Mathematician
National Security Agency (NSA), Fort Meade, Maryland
Senior Scientist
Pfizer, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Senior Technology Analyst, Automation and Research Computing
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
Mathematical Statistician, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
US Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland
Project Leader · Center for Applied Scientific Computing · Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore · California
Technical Advisor, Databricks, Berkeley, California
Consulting Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, California
