
Principal Data Scientist
Capital One
McLean, Virginia, U.S.
Full-time, Regular
Posted Sep 18, 2025
Onsite
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About the role
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!
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
- Customer first. You love the process of analyzing and creating, but also share our passion to do the right thing
- Creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems
- Statistically-minded. You’ve built models, validated them, and backtested them
- A data guru. “Big data” doesn’t faze you
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following: Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field plus 5 years of experience performing data analytics
Benefits
- 401k matching
- Health insurance
- Flight privileges
- Long-term incentives (LTI)
- Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits
About the Company
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Job Details
Salary Range
$158,600 - $181,000/yearly
Location
McLean, Virginia, U.S.
Employment Type
Full-time, Regular
Original Posting
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