Senior Data Scientist, AI Foundations - Capital One National Association

Center 2 (19050), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Senior Data Scientist, AI Foundations

At Capital One, we think big and do big things. We are not just a nationally recognized credit card issuer, a top 10 bank by deposit, but a high-tech company with products that reach tens of millions of consumers and have been recognized by numerous prestigious awards for their customer-friendliness. Capital One was the first major bank to move to cloud computing and to publish APIs for the Open Banking future. AI is transforming every industry. At Capital One, you will help shape how it transforms financial services.

Team Description

AI Foundations Specialist Models Data Science team builds and ships state of the art scalable architecture, AI/ML solutions for Capital One’s award-winning mobile app. We partner with product, tech and design teams to deliver app features that delight customers with dynamic and personalized experiences, enable them to chat with Capital One’s digital assistant Eno, or search for useful contents. You will be the driving force to experiment, innovate and create next generation experiences powered by the latest emerging generative AI technologies.

In this role, you will:

1. Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, machine learning engineers and product managers to deliver AI powered products that change how customers interact with their money.
2. Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, LangChain, Lightning, VectorDBs, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data.
3. Be the expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to harness the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), adapt and finetune them for customer facing applications and features.
4. Build machine learning and NLP models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, and validation; partnering with engineering teams to operationalize them in scalable and resilient production systems that serve 80+ million customers.
5. Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals.

The Ideal Candidate is:

1. Customer first. You love the process of analyzing and creating, but also share our passion to do the right thing. You know at the end of the day it’s about making the right decision for our customers.
2. Innovative. You continually research and evaluate emerging technologies. You stay current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities to apply them.
3. Creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. You’re not afraid to share a new idea.
4. A leader. You challenge conventional thinking and work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo. You're passionate about talent development for your own team and beyond.
5. Technical. You’re comfortable with advanced ML and DL technologies including language models and are passionate about developing further. You have hands-on experience working with LLMs and solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
6. Influential. You are passionate about AI/ML and can bring along a cross functional team in breakthrough innovations. You communicate clearly and effectively to share your findings with non-technical audiences.
7. You are experienced in training language models or large computer vision models as well as have expertise in one or more key subdomains such as: training optimization, self-supervised learning, explainability, RLHF.
8. You have an engineering mindset as shown by a track record of delivering models at scale both in training data and inference volumes. You have experience in delivering libraries, platforms, or solution level code to existing products.

Basic Qualifications:

1. Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree plus 3 years of experience in data analytics, or currently has, or is in the process of obtaining Master’s Degree plus 1 year of experience in data analytics with an expectation that required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date.
2. At least 1 year of experience in open source programming languages for large scale data analysis.
3. At least 1 year of experience with machine learning.
4. At least 1 year of experience with relational databases.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Master’s Degree in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics), or PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics).
2. Experience working with AWS.
3. At least 2 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R.
4. At least 2 years’ experience with machine learning.
5. At least 2 years’ experience with SQL.

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law.