Head of AI Foundations & NLP Data Science

Capital One; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Data Scientist to join the AI Foundations Specialist Models Data Science Team, driving state-of-the-art AI/ML solutions across billions of customer records. You will partner with product, tech and design to deliver dynamic, personalised experiences in Capital One's mobile app and services that delight customers.

The role emphasizes experimentation, innovation and building scalable production systems for 80+ million customers, with a strong NLP/LLM focus and a broad tech

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 6 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 plus 4 years of experience performing data analytics
• A PhD in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 1 year of experience performing data analytics
• At least 1 year of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis
• At least 1 year of experience working with machine learning
• At least 1 year of experience utilising relational databases

Responsibilities

• 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 operationalise 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

Skills

NLP

LLMs

Python

SQL

ML/DL

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's degree in quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration

PhD in quantitative field

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face

LangChain

Lightning

VectorDBs

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Data Scientist to join the AI Foundations Specialist Models Data Science Team, driving state-of-the-art AI/ML solutions across billions of customer records. You will partner with product, tech and design to deliver dynamic, personalised experiences in Capital One's mobile app and services that delight customers.

The role emphasizes experimentation, innovation and building scalable production systems for 80+ million customers, with a strong NLP/LLM focus and a broad tech