Manager, Data Scientist - Generative AI Analysis Tools

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 Credit Analysis Tools team within US Card Data Science builds cutting-edge software for financial analysis that informs lending decisions for ~100 million Capital One customers. We are developing generative AI-based solutions for data analysis, code generation, document synthesis, and recommendation to drive efficiency in our business and data analytics teams. You will work with an experienced team of product managers, engineers, data scientists, and business analysts to experiment with emerging technologies in generative AI and deliver software implementing these technologies.

Role Description

In this role, you will:

• Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, business analysts and product managers to deliver a product customers love

• Fine-tune and customize large language models across text and vision modalities for use in financial data analysis

• Manage large scale data annotation projects by guiding business analysts to curate high quality datasets, delivering model improvements by driving improvements to data collection processes

• Collaborate with software engineers to develop, deploy, optimize, and maintain data and model pipelines 

• Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Dask, LangChain, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data

• Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals

The Ideal Candidate is:

• Innovative. You continually research and evaluate emerging technologies. You stay current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities to apply them.

• Statistically-minded. You’ve built models, validated them, and backtested them. You know how to interpret a confusion matrix or a ROC curve. You have experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning. 

• Technical. You’re comfortable with open-source languages and are passionate about developing further. You have hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms. You have a good understanding of generative AI concepts, including language models, neutral networks, and transformers. 

• Customer first. You love the process of analyzing and creating, but also share our passion to do the right thing. You know how to build customer-focused experiences that address their needs and deliver ethical business value. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree plus 6 years of experience in data analytics, or currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Master’s Degree plus 4 years of experience in data analytics, or currently has, or is in the process of obtaining PhD plus 1 year of experience in data analytics, with an expectation that required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date

• At least 2 years’ experience in open source programming languages for large scale data analysis

• At least 2 years’ experience with machine learning

• At least 2 years’ experience with relational databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) or non-STEM but AI-adjacent field plus 3 years of experience in data analytics

• At least 2 years’ experience fine-tuning and deploying transformer based models using deep learning libraries and tools such as Pytorch and HuggingFace

• At least 2 years’ experience working with unstructured data for natural language processing, computer vision or speech applications

• At least 4 years’ experience in Python for large scale data analysis and software engineering

• At least 4 years’ experience with SQL

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $193,400 - $220,700 for Mgr, Data ScienceNew York, NY: $211,000 - $240,800 for Mgr, Data Science

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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