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From the employer's careers site First seen 26 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Senior Associate, Data Scientist - Applied AI (Financial Services)

Capital One Plano, TX senior full-time

Salary

$135,600 - $154,800 for Sr Assoc, Data Science per year

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Description

As a Senior Associate, Data Scientist - Applied AI (Financial Services) at Capital One, you will partner with a cross-functional team to deliver Generative AI solutions. You will leverage technologies such as Python, PyTorch, LangChain, AWS, Spark, and Vector Databases to build Multi-Agent systems and advanced RAG pipelines.

In this role, you will:

  • Partner with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and product managers to deliver Generative AI solutions customers love.
  • Leverage a broad stack of technologies to build Multi-Agent systems and advanced RAG pipelines over vast volumes of numeric and textual data.
  • Build Generative AI models and pipelines through all phases of development, from context engineering through fine-tuning, evaluation, validation, and deployment.
  • Translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals.

The ideal candidate is innovative, creative, technical, and statistically-minded. You should be comfortable with open-source languages and have hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.

Basic qualifications include:

  • A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 2 years of experience performing data analytics.
  • A Master's Degree in a quantitative field or an MBA with a quantitative concentration.

Preferred qualifications include:

  • Master’s Degree in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics), or PhD in “STEM” field.
  • At least 2 years of experience in Python, Scala, or R.
  • At least 2 years of experience with machine learning.
  • At least 2 years of experience with SQL.
  • At least 1 year of experience in AI, Information Retrieval, Deep Learning, or NLP.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: McLean, VA: $135,600 - $154,800 Plano, TX: $123,300 - $140,700

This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI).

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being.

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