# Manager, Data Scientist - Advanced Recommenders and Personalization Systems (Transformers, LLMs & Reinforcement Learning)

**Company**: Capital One
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $179,400 - $204,700
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Manager, Data Scientist at Capital One, you will lead the development of large-scale reinforcement learning-based recommender systems and arbitration engines. Your work will influence how millions of people discover, decide, and engage across financial and lifestyle experiences.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Design and develop state-of-the-art recommender systems using transformers, large language models (LLMs), and reinforcement learning.

- Advance personalization through sequence modeling, multi-modal learning, and contextual decision-making.

- Build and fine-tune foundation models trained on large-scale customer interaction data.

- Apply reinforcement learning to optimize long-term user engagement and business outcomes.

- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deploy scalable, production-grade, low-latency systems.

- Drive innovation in emerging areas such as generative recommendations, conversational systems, and cross-domain personalization.

**Requirements:**

- Strong background in machine learning, deep learning, and recommender systems.

- Hands-on experience with transformers, LLMs, or reinforcement learning.

- Experience working with large-scale datasets and distributed training.

- Solid programming skills in Python and modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow).

- Ability to translate research into impactful, real-world systems.

**Ideal Candidate:**

- Customer-focused with a passion for doing the right thing.

- Innovative with experience in evaluating emerging technologies.

- Creative problem-solver with strong analytical skills.

- Leadership experience with a focus on talent development.

- Technical expertise in open-source languages and cloud computing platforms.

**Salary Range:**

- Plano, TX: $179,400 - $204,700

- New York, NY: $215,200 - $245,600

- McLean, VA: $197,300 - $225,100

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- transformers
- large language models
- reinforcement learning
- machine learning
- deep learning
- Python
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow

### Nice to have
- AWS
- Scala
- R
- SQL

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