Director, Data Scientist, Generative AI Systems

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
McLean, VANew York, NY
Salary
$269,100–$307,200 / yr
Posted
14 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 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 998 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 992 roles with salary data.

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

Director, Data Scientist - Generative AI Systems joins the Generative AI Systems team to develop state-of-the-art solutions for dialogue, text summarization, reading comprehension, speech recognition, image processing, and time-series sequencing modeling. You will lead a specialized group of specialists in natural language processing, speech, and computer vision while collaborating with cross-functional teams to build internal tools and customer-facing applications. The role involves experimenting with emerging technologies, building machine learning models through all development phases, and operationalizing them into scalable production systems. Key technical requirements include expertise in Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models, utilizing a stack featuring Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, LangChain, Lightning, and VectorDBs. The work focuses on extracting insights from massive volumes of numeric and textual data to improve how customers interact with their money and manage financial tasks.

What you'll do

  • Lead a team of NLP, speech, and computer vision specialists in developing generative AI solutions.
  • Develop and fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) for customer-facing applications and internal business tools.
  • Build machine learning models through all phases of development including design, training, evaluation, and validation.
  • Partner with engineering teams to operationalize models into scalable, resilient production systems serving millions of customers.
  • Utilize a broad technology stack including PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, and VectorDBs to analyze large datasets.
  • Translate complex technical work into tangible business goals for stakeholders and product managers.
  • Contribute original research to major NLP and AI/ML conferences.

What we're looking for

  • A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field plus 9 years of experience performing data analytics.
  • A Master's degree in a quantitative field or an MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 7 years of experience performing data analytics.
  • A PhD in a quantitative field plus 4 years of experience performing data analytics.
  • At least 4 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis.
  • At least 4 years of experience working with machine learning.
  • At least 4 years of experience utilizing relational databases.
  • Expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs).
  • Experience with tools such as PyTorch, AWS, Hugging Face, LangChain, and VectorDBs.

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