Capital One
Manager, Data Scientist -Advanced Recommenders and Personalization Systems (Transformers, LLMs & Reinforcement Learning)
$179K–$246K
McLean, VA +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
New York, NY
Plano, TX - Experience
- Degree-dependent data analytics experience: 6 years with a bachelor’s, 4 years with a master’s or quantitative MBA, or 1 year with a PhD; plus at least 1 year each in open-source programming for large-scale data analysis, machine learning, and relational databases.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in a quantitative field; a quantitative-concentration MBA is an alternative to the master’s degree.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Leads development of large-scale recommender and personalization systems using advanced machine learning to deliver real-time experiences across Capital One’s digital channels.
What you'll do
- Design recommender systems using transformers, LLMs, and reinforcement learning; advance sequence modeling and contextual decision-making.
- Build and fine-tune foundation models and evaluation frameworks using large-scale customer interaction data.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deploy scalable, low-latency systems and drive new personalization capabilities.
What they ask for
- Quantitative bachelor’s degree plus 6 years of data analytics experience; or quantitative master’s degree or quantitatively concentrated MBA plus 4 years; or quantitative PhD plus 1 year.
- At least 1 year leveraging open-source programming languages for large-scale data analysis.
- At least 1 year working with machine learning.
- At least 1 year utilizing relational databases.
Nice to have
- PhD in a STEM field plus 3 years of data analytics experience.
- At least 1 year working with AWS; or at least 4 years using Python, Scala, or R for large-scale data analysis, machine learning, or SQL.
Pay
$179,400 - $204,700 USD base salary (Plano, TX); $215,200 - $245,600 USD base salary (New York, NY); $197,300 - $225,100 USD base salary (McLean, VA)
Tools
transformers, large language models (LLMs), reinforcement learning, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, AWS, SQL
AI focus
Develops recommender systems, foundation models, and personalization using transformers, LLMs, reinforcement learning, sequence modeling, multimodal learning, and contextual decision-making.
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