Principal Data Scientist - Recommendation & Personalization Systems

About the role

Join an elite Applied AI team within AI Foundations, operating at the intersection of deep research and massive real-world impact. We are pioneering the next generation of personalized customer experiences across Capital One's web and mobile applications, leveraging our high-scale ML models. Our core mission involves architecting and deploying cutting-edge personalized recommendation engines.

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love
• Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data
• Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation
• Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals

Requirements

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date:
• A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 5 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 3 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 3 years of experience performing data analytics

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics), or PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)
• Experience working with AWS
• At least 3 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R
• At least 3 years’ experience with machine learning
• At least 3 years’ experience with SQL

Skills

• Customer first
• Innovative
• Technical
• Data guru

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being

Pay

• McLean, VA: $161,800 - $184,600 for Princ Associate, Data Science
• New York, NY: $176,500 - $201,400 for Princ Associate, Data Science
• San Jose, CA: $176,500 - $201,400 for Princ Associate, Data Science

Schedule

• Full-time