Principal Data Scientist — Recommendation & Personalization

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Principal Associate, Data Scientist to join the Recommendation & Personalization Systems team. You will partner with cross-functional data scientists, engineers, and product managers to build scalable personalized recommendations across web and mobile platforms.

You will develop models end-to-end using Python, Spark, AWS, and open-source tools, translate complex results into business impact, and contribute to state-of-the-art research in recommender systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, OR) with 5+ years analytics experience.
• Master's Degree in a quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration plus 3+ years analytics.
• PhD in a quantitative field may substitute for experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver a product customers love.
• Build ML models end-to-end from design to implementation.
• Translate model results into tangible business impact.

Skills

Python

SQL

Machine Learning

AWS

Scala

R

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

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

PhD in quantitative field

Tools

Conda

AWS

Spark

H2O

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Principal Associate, Data Scientist to join the Recommendation & Personalization Systems team. You will partner with cross-functional data scientists, engineers, and product managers to build scalable personalized recommendations across web and mobile platforms.

You will develop models end-to-end using Python, Spark, AWS, and open-source tools, translate complex results into business impact, and contribute to state-of-the-art research in recommender systems.