Capital One
Senior Manager, Data Science - AI Foundations
$225K–$281K
New York, NY +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2025
- Location
- New York, NY
McLean, VA
San Jose, CA - Experience
- Data analytics: 7 years with a bachelor's degree, 5 years with a master's degree or quantitatively concentrated MBA, or 2 years with a PhD. Also requires at least 2 years 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; alternatively, an MBA with a quantitative concentration is listed for the master's-level path.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Leads development and production delivery of scalable NLP and machine learning solutions, including fine-tuned large language models, for customer-facing Capital One app experiences.
What you'll do
- Partner with data science, engineering, and product teams to deliver AI-powered customer products.
- Design, train, evaluate, and validate machine learning and NLP models, and help operationalize them in scalable production systems.
- Apply NLP and LLMs to customer-facing applications and communicate technical findings in business terms.
What they ask for
- One of the stated quantitative-degree and data-analytics experience paths: bachelor's plus 7 years, master's or quantitatively concentrated MBA plus 5 years, or PhD plus 2 years.
- At least 2 years leveraging open source programming languages for large-scale data analysis.
- At least 2 years working with machine learning.
- At least 2 years utilizing relational databases.
Nice to have
- Experience working with AWS.
- At least 5 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R; machine learning; or SQL.
Pay
$225,400 - $257,200 USD base salary (McLean, VA); $245,900 - $280,600 USD base salary (New York, NY); $245,900 - $280,600 USD base salary (San Jose, CA)
Tools
Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, LangChain, Lightning, VectorDBs, Python, Scala
AI focus
Develops and deploys scalable AI/ML and NLP for customer-facing app features, including training, adapting, and fine-tuning LLMs.
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