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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

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