Senior Associate, Data Scientist - Applied AI
Agentic Ai
Ai Agent
Ai Agent Platform
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Big Data
Data & Ai
Data Analysis
Data Analytics
Data Engineer
Data Pipeline
Data Platform
Data Processing
Data Science
Data Science Ops
Data Scientist
Database
Deep Learning
Generative AI
Generative Ai Engineer
Machine Learning
Machine Learning Engineer
Multi Agent Systems
PyTorch
Job Description
New York, NY (onsite) Senior Associate role focused on embedding Generative AI into core business processes for Capital One’s Commercial Bank Applied AI team.
Responsibilities
- Partner with a cross-functional group of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and product managers to deliver Generative AI solutions for customers
- Build multi-agent systems and advanced RAG pipelines over large-scale numeric and textual data
- Apply a broad technology stack including Python, PyTorch, LangChain, AWS, Spark, and vector databases
- Develop Generative AI models and pipelines across the full lifecycle: context engineering, fine-tuning, evaluation, validation, and deployment
- Communicate technical complexity into clear, tangible business goals using strong interpersonal skills
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related) plus 2 years performing data analytics
- Master’s Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration
- OR a Master’s in a “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics), or a PhD in a “STEM” field
- At least 2 years experience with Python, Scala, or R
- At least 2 years experience with machine learning
- At least 2 years experience with SQL
- At least 1 year experience in AI, Information Retrieval, Deep Learning, or NLP
- Innovative: continuously research and evaluate emerging technologies and stay current on state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications
- Creative: comfortable defining solutions for big, undefined problems; asks questions and shares new ideas
- Technical: hands-on experience using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms to develop data science solutions
- Statistically-minded: experience building, validating, and backtesting models; ability to interpret confusion matrices or ROC curves; exposure to clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning
Technologies
- Python, PyTorch, LangChain
- AWS, Spark
- Vector Databases
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Advanced RAG, Context Engineering
- Fine-tuning, Evaluation, Validation, Deployment
Benefits
- Performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)
- Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits
Team
- Commercial Bank Applied AI team embeds Generative AI directly into core business processes
- Specializes in enterprise-grade architectures using Multi-Agent Systems, Advanced RAG, Context Engineering, and Tool-Calling Frameworks
- Ideal candidate brings practical Generative AI passion and hands-on machine learning and AI experience from industry work or rigorous academic research
Salary
- New York, NY: USD 148,000 - 168,900 per year