Senior Data Scientist - Model Risk & AI Innovation

Capital One Group; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is hiring a Senior Associate, Data Scientist in McLean, VA to join the Model Audit team. You will partner with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to build and validate models, using a broad tech stack including Python, AWS, Spark, and H2O.

This role emphasizes experimentation, innovation, and effective communication of results across the enterprise. The ideal candidate has 2+ years in ML, strong statistics skills, and a track record in model validation, clustering,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field plus 2 years of data analytics
• Master's degree in a quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration
• Master’s Degree in STEM field or PhD in STEM field (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love
• Leverage Python, Conda, AWS, Spark, and more to reveal insights from large numeric and textual data
• Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation
• Translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals

Skills

Python

Scala

R

Machine learning

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's degree in quantitative field

MBA with quantitative concentration

Tools

AWS

Spark

H2O

Conda

Job description

Capital One is hiring a Senior Associate, Data Scientist in McLean, VA to join the Model Audit team. You will partner with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to build and validate models, using a broad tech stack including Python, AWS, Spark, and H2O.

This role emphasizes experimentation, innovation, and effective communication of results across the enterprise. The ideal candidate has 2+ years in ML, strong statistics skills, and a track record in model validation, clustering,