Principal Data Scientist

1 week ago


McLean, United States Capital One National Association Full time

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

Principal Data Scientist - Emerging ML Data is at the center of everything we do. As a startup, we disrupted the credit card industry by individually personalizing every credit card offer using statistical modeling and the relational database, cutting edge technology in 1988 Fast-forward a few years, and this little innovation and our passion for data has skyrocketed us to a Fortune 200 company and a leader in the world of data-driven decision-making.

As a Data Scientist at Capital One, youll be part of a team thats leading the next wave of disruption at a whole new scale, using the latest in computing and machine learning technologies and operating across billions of customer records to unlock the big opportunities that help everyday people save money, time and agony in their financial lives.

Team Description Emerging ML is the data science and machine learning team inside Capital Ones Applied Research organization. We focus on research and development of new technologies within the domain of Artificial Intelligence with a focus on Embeddings and Foundation Models. We partner closely with our product and engineering teams to connect emerging technologies with business critical use cases across Capital Ones lines of business.

As part of Emerging ML, you will work on things like:

Conducting research into self supervised learning, transformer models, and representation learning

Building customer behavioral models (using transaction, clickstream, and other data) that identify trends, patterns, and relationships related to product usage

Refining integration patterns for encoder and decoder models for downstream use cases to connect Applied Research products and business use cases

Role Description This is an individual contributor position. In Emerging ML, you will work at all phases of the data science lifecycle, including:

Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation and validation, and partner with engineering teams to operationalize them in scalable and resilient production systems that serve 50+ million customers.

Partner closely with a variety of business and product teams across Capital One to conduct the experiments that guide improvements to customer experiences and business outcomes in domains like marketing, servicing and fraud prevention.

Write software (Python, Scala, e.g.) to collect, explore, visualize and analyze numerical and textual data (billions of customer transactions, clicks, payments, etc.) using tools like Spark and AWS.

The Ideal candidate will be: Curious and creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions, and you love pushing hard to find the answers. Youre not afraid to share a new idea. You communicate clearly and effectively to share your findings with non-technical audiences.

Technical: You have hands-on experience developing data science solutions from concept to production using open source tools and modern cloud computing platforms. You are not afraid of petabytes of data.

Statistically-minded. You have built models, validated them and backtested them. You know how to interpret a confusion matrix or a ROC curve. You have experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series analysis and deep learning.

Customer and product oriented. You share our passion for changing banking for good.

Basic Qualifications Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelors Degree plus 5 years of experience in data analytics, or currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Masters Degree plus 3 years in data analytics, or currently has, or is in the process of obtaining PhD, with an expectation that required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date.

At least 1 year of experience in open source programming languages for large scale data analysis.

At least 1 year of experience with machine learning.

At least 1 year of experience with relational databases.

Preferred Qualifications: Masters in STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 3 years of experience in data analytics.

Experience building transformer models at scale (>100M parameters).

Understanding of self-supervised learning methods.

Strong foundation in software engineering.

At least 1 year of experience working with AWS.

At least 2 years experience in Python, Scala, or R for large scale data analysis.

At least 2 years' experience with machine learning.

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.

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