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Principal Associate, Data Science

Capital One

McLean, Virginia, U.S.
Full-time, Regular
Posted Sep 25, 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! 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.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered solutions to increase operational efficiency.
  • Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, AWS, Spark, Kubernetes and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data using deep learning techniques such as transformers, LSTMs, and embeddings
  • Fine-tune advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) for domain-specific conversational applications and multi-agentic workflows.
  • Be the expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to harness the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), adapt and finetune them for business-specific applications and features.

Requirements

  • Innovative. You are deeply engaged in AI/ML research and stay ahead of the curve on emerging GenAI advancements.
  • Creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems.
  • A leader. You challenge conventional thinking and work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo.
  • Technical. You have hands-on experience in AI/ML development, working with open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
  • NLP and LLM tuning

Benefits

  • 401k matching
  • Health insurance
  • Long-term incentives (LTI)
  • Flight privileges

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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