Director, Data Scientist - Generative AI Systems

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
McLean, VA · New York, NY
Salary
$269,100–$307,200 / yr
Posted
67 days ago

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Above market

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This role $288k
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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

Capital One Financial currently has 498 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Director, Data Scientist - Generative AI Systems

As the Director of Data Science within the Generative AI Systems team at Card Data Science, you will lead a group of specialists in natural language processing, speech recognition, and computer vision to develop cutting-edge generative AI solutions. Your day-to-day responsibilities include driving research and development for dialogue systems, text summarization, reading comprehension, and image/document processing applications that enhance both internal efficiency and customer experience. You will leverage Python, Scala, or R alongside machine learning frameworks to build scalable data analysis pipelines, contributing to major NLP and AI/ML conferences. With a strong background in quantitative fields such as statistics, computer science, or mathematics, you should have extensive experience managing teams and working with relational databases, ensuring the team's solutions address complex business challenges at scale.

What you'll do

  • Lead a team of specialists in developing generative AI solutions for dialogue and text summarization.
  • Experiment with emerging technologies to enhance speech recognition and image/document processing capabilities.
  • Deliver software implementing advanced NLP, speech, and computer vision technologies.
  • Contribute research findings to major conferences on natural language processing and machine learning.
  • Manage a team of data scientists and engineers in creating customer-facing AI applications.

What we're looking for

  • PhD in a quantitative field plus 4 years of experience in data analytics.
  • At least 5 years of experience with Python, Scala, or R for large-scale data analysis.
  • At least 5 years of experience working with machine learning.
  • At least 3 years of experience managing people.
  • Strong background in leveraging relational databases and open-source programming languages.

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