Principal Associate, Data Scientist - LLM Customization Team

Capital One
McLean, VA, USA / New York, NY, USA / San Jose, CA, USA2026-01-12Full time

About the job

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. The LLM Customization team is on the cutting edge of GenAI and at the center of bringing our vision for AI at Capital One to life.

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

Qualifications

Minimum

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)

Preferred

Master’s Degree in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 3 years of experience in data analytics, or PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)

At least 1 year of 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