Capital One

Financial Services

PrincipalAssociate,DataScience-AIFoundations

$162–185k McLean, Virginia, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Principal Associate, Data Science - AI Foundations at Capital One. Skills: Generative AI, LLM, Conversational AI, NLP. Partner with cross-functional team. Deliver AI powered products”

What You'll Achieve.

Enhance customer digital experience; Enhance real time support; Improve customer experience

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Solving complex problems; Solving ambiguous problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor's Degree in quantitative field plus 5 years of experience, Master's Degree in quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration plus 3 years of experience, PhD in quantitative field, 5 years of experience performing data analytics, 3 years of experience performing data analytics, SQL proficiency

Nice to Have

Master's Degree in STEM field plus 3 years of experience, PhD in STEM field, 1 year of experience working with AWS, 3 years of experience in Python, Scala, or R, 3 years of experience with machine learning, 3 years of experience with SQL

What You'll Do.

Partner with cross-functional team

Deliver AI powered products

Lead research and development in Generative AI

Build scalable digital assistant solutions

Fine-tune advanced Large Language Models

Manage multi-agentic workflows

Leverage technologies

Be expert in Natural Language Processing

Adapt LLMs for business applications

Fine-tune LLMs for business features

Integrate models into production systems

Translate AI/ML research into business outcomes

Improve customer experience

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional team; Data scientists; Software engineers; Machine learning engineers; Product managers

Communication Scope

Communicate complex ideas

Full Job Description

Principal Associate, Data Science - AI Foundations 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, you’ll be part of a team that’s 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:** The GenAI Powered Digital Assistant Team in AI Foundations engage in active research in GenAI powered conversational capabilities and build scalable futuristics solutions to enhance our customers digital experience and real time support through digital assistance. You will be the driving force to lead research, innovate and develop applications with emerging AI/ML technologies. Our areas of research include advanced LLM powered digital Assistant, multi-agentic workflow, domain specific conversational large language model tuning and inference optimization. **In this role, you will:** * 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 developers write software. * Lead cutting-edge research and development in Generative AI (GenAI) to enhance conversational AI capabilities and build scalable, futuristic digital assistant solutions. * Fine-tune advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) for domain-specific conversational applications, inference optimization, and multi-agentic workflows. * Leverage a broad stack of technologies —

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