Senior Associate, Data Scientist – NLP

Capital One

Data Scientist innovating AI solutions at Capital One. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve customer engagement through advanced data analytics and machine learning.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeMcLean • California, New York, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $135,600 - $154,800 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.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A 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
A 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
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

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonScalaRmachine learningNLPdata analyticsSQLmodel evaluationmodel validationdata visualization

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingcritical thinkingteamworkadaptabilityorganizational skillsleadershipanalytical thinkingattention to detail

Certifications

Bachelor's DegreeMaster's DegreeMBA with quantitative concentration