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Director, Data Scientist

AI summary of the role

Lead the Generative AI Systems (Genesis) team within Card Data Science, building state-of-the-art generative AI solutions for dialogue, summarization, speech, and computer vision.

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What you’ll do

  • Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love
  • Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Kubernetes, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data
  • Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation
  • Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals

What you’ll bring

  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field plus 9 years of data analytics experience, or Master's plus 7 years, or PhD plus 4 years
  • 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

Technologies

Python · Kubernetes · AWS · H2O · Spark · NLP · speech recognition · computer vision · generative AI · relational databases

About Capital One

US consumer bank and largest credit card issuer; cloud-native operator running credit cards, auto loans, retail banking, and now the Discover network on AWS.

Public · 5000+ people

Source and classification

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Director, Data Scientist Data is at the center of everything we do. As a startup, we disrupted the credit card industry by individually personalizing every credit card offer using statistical modeling and the relational database, cutting edge technology in 1988! Fast-forward a few years, and this little innovation and our passion for data has skyrocketed us to a Fortune 200 company and a leader in the world of data-driven decision-making. As a Data Scientist at Capital One, you’ll be part of a team that’s leading the next wave of disruption at a whole new scale, using the latest in computing and machine learning technologies and operating across billions of customer records to unlock the big opportunities that help everyday people save money, time and agony in their financial lives. Team Description The Generative AI Systems (Genesis) team within Card Data Science builds
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Director, Data Scientist Data is at the center of everything we do. As a startup, we disrupted the credit card industry by individually personalizing every credit card offer using statistical modeling and the relational database, cutting edge technology in 1988! Fast-forward a few years, and this little innovation and our passion for data has skyrocketed us to a Fortune 200 company and a leader in the world of data-driven decision-making. As a Data Scientist at Capital One, you’ll be part of a team that’s leading the next wave of disruption at a whole new scale, using the latest in computing and machine learning technologies and operating across billions of customer records to unlock the big opportunities that help everyday people save money, time and agony in their financial lives. Team Description The Generative AI Systems (Genesis) team within Card Data Science builds state-of-art, generative AI-based solutions for dialogue, text summarization, reading comprehension, speech recognition, image/document processing as well as time-series sequencing modeling. We partner with product, tech and design teams to deliver internal applications based on these solutions that drive efficiency in our business and data analytics teams, as well as customer-facing applications that enhance the customer experience. You will lead a seasoned group of natural language processing (NLP), speec [... source excerpt omitted ...] technologies in generative AI, delivering software implementing these technologies, and contributing research to major NLP and AI/ML conferences. Role Description In this role, you will: Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Kubernetes, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complex [... source excerpt omitted ...] irst. You love the process of analyzing and creating, but also share our passion to do the right thing. You know at the end of the day it’s about making the right decision for our customers. Creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. You’re not afraid to share a new idea. A leader. You challenge conventional thinking and work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo. You’re passionate about talent development for your own team and beyond. Technical. You’re comfortable with open-source languages and are passionate about developing further. You have hands-on experience develo

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