Senior Data Science Leader - NLP & AI at Scale

Capital One; Deerfield (IL); On-site; USD 209,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Data Scientist to lead NLP and ML initiatives that power our AI-driven experiences for millions of customers. You will collaborate with product, tech, and design teams to build and deploy models that influence how users interact with their money.

You will work with cutting-edge tools and cloud platforms, adapting state-of-the-art methods to real-world applications, and contribute to scalable, production-ready systems across a high-traffic app ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field plus 7 years of experience performing data analytics.
• Master's Degree in a quantitative field or an MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 5 years of experience performing data analytics.
• PhD in a quantitative field plus 2 years of experience performing data analytics.
• At least 2 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis.
• At least 2 years of experience working with machine learning.
• At least 2 years of experience utilizing 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 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.

Skills

NLP expertise

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud & ML engineering

Engineering mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

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

PhD in a quantitative field

Tools

Pytorch

AWS Ultraclusters

Hugging Face

LangChain

Lightning

VectorDBs

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Data Scientist to lead NLP and ML initiatives that power our AI-driven experiences for millions of customers. You will collaborate with product, tech, and design teams to build and deploy models that influence how users interact with their money.

You will work with cutting-edge tools and cloud platforms, adapting state-of-the-art methods to real-world applications, and contribute to scalable, production-ready systems across a high-traffic app ecosystem.