Senior Data Scientist, AI Foundations

Capital One

Data Scientist at Capital One leveraging machine learning to deliver AI powered products for financial interactions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance customer experiences with advanced data techniques.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeNew York City • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $148,000 - $168,900 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSPythonPyTorchScalaSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
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.
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.
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.
Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 2 years of experience performing data analytics
Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration
Experience working with AWS
At least 2 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R
At least 2 years’ experience with machine learning
At least 2 years’ experience with SQL

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being

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Hard Skills & Tools

Natural Language Processingmachine learningPythonScalaRSQLdata analyticsmodel trainingmodel evaluationmodel validation

Soft Skills

interpersonal skillscommunication

Certifications

Bachelor's DegreeMaster's DegreeMBA