Principal Data Scientist - AI Foundations, Specialist Models
Capital One
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McLean, VA · $162k–$185k a year · Posted November 2, 2026
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About the job
...Principal Data Scientist - AI Foundations, Specialist Models 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,...