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
Employment
Full-time
Posted
60 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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 2107 open roles on FindRole.

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

Director, Data Scientist - Generative AI Systems leads a seasoned group of natural language processing, speech, and computer vision specialists within the Generative AI Systems team. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to build and operationalize AI-powered products, including solutions for dialogue, text summarization, reading comprehension, speech recognition, and image processing. You will be responsible for designing, training, evaluating, and validating machine learning models to serve millions of customers. The position requires expertise in Natural Language Processing to adapt and finetune Large Language Models for customer-facing applications. Key technologies include Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, LangChain, Lightning, and VectorDBs. The work focuses on solving complex business problems by extracting insights from massive volumes of numeric and textual data to improve financial interactions.

What you'll do

  • Lead a team of specialists in natural language processing, speech, and computer vision.
  • Develop and fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) for customer-facing applications and features.
  • Build machine learning models through all phases of development, including design, training, evaluation, and validation.
  • Partner with engineering teams to operationalize models into scalable and resilient production systems.
  • Utilize a technology stack including Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, LangChain, and VectorDBs.
  • Translate complex technical work into tangible business goals for stakeholders.
  • Contribute research to major NLP and AI/ML conferences.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a Bachelor's in a quantitative field plus 9 years of data analytics experience, a Master's plus 7 years, or a PhD plus 4 years.
  • Must have at least 4 years of experience leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis.
  • Must have at least 4 years of experience working with machine learning.
  • Must have at least 4 years of experience utilizing relational databases.
  • Must have hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
  • PhD in a STEM field plus 5 years of experience in data analytics (preferred).
  • At least 1 year of experience working with AWS (preferred).
  • At least 3 years of experience managing people (preferred).
  • At least 5 years of experience in Python, Scala, or R for large scale data analysis (preferred).
  • At least 5 years of experience with machine learning (preferred).

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