Capital One · 4 hours ago
Principal Associate, Data Scientist - Mainstreet Acquisitions
McLean, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$162K/yr - $185K/yr
3+ years expCapital One is a Fortune 200 company that focuses on data-driven decision-making in the credit card industry. As a Principal Associate, Data Scientist, you will work on developing and optimizing credit underwriting models, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions that enhance customer experiences.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Conduct model development, experimenting with various statistical methodologies to improve model performance
Leverage alternative data sources along with various feature selection and engineering techniques to enhance in market models
Develop next-gen credit underwriting models
Partner with key stakeholders across the organization to establish standards for the new modeling approaches that are consistent with our values
Push the envelope with new data and new modeling approaches to improve our lending decisions
Qualification
Required
Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date: A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 5 years of experience performing data analytics
A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 3 years of experience performing data analytics
A PhD in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field)
Preferred
Master's Degree in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 3 years of experience in data analytics, or PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)
At least 1 year of experience working with AWS
At least 3 years' experience in Python, Scala, or R
At least 3 years' experience with machine learning
At least 3 years' experience with SQL
Benefits
Performance based incentive compensation
Cash bonus(es)
Long term incentives (LTI)
Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits
Company
Capital One
Capital One is a financial services company that provides banking, credit card, auto loan, savings, and commercial banking services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.45BKey Investors
Berkshire Hathaway
2025-09-11Post Ipo Debt· $2.75B
2025-01-30Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2023-05-15Post Ipo Equity· $954M
Leadership Team
Lo Li
CTO, Managing Vice President Retail Bank
Daniel Arellano
Senior Vice President, Business Cards and Payments
Recent News
2026-01-13
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