# Principal Associate, Data Scientist - Recommendation & Personalization Systems

Principal Associate, Data Scientist - Recommendation & Personalization SystemsData 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: Join an elite Applied AI team within AI Foundations, operating at the intersection of deep research and massive real-world impact. We are pioneering the next generation of personalized customer experiences across Capital One's web and mobile applications, leveraging our high-scale ML models. Our core mission involves architecting and

- **Id**: 1038345
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/capital-one-principal-associate-data-scientist-recommendation-personalization-systems>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: McLean, United States, New York, United States, San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-18T17:23:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-18
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T05:49:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 54
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7654
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commercial & Retail Banks, Cards & Card Issuing, Leasing, Auto & Equipment Finance

## Company

- **Id**: 5239
- **Name**: Capital One
- **Domain**: capitalone.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/capitalone>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 233
- **Ghost share**: 0.03
- **Stale share**: 0.661
- **Repost share**: 0.064
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 31
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 161800
- **Max**: 184600
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 184600

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **H2O.ai** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **Transformers** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 54

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Virginia** — Kind: city
- **New York** — Kind: city
- **California** — Kind: city

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-18T17:23:57Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,584 · green card filings: 42; Filings 12m: 1584

## Liveness

- **Score**: 20
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.557
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 53
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 184600
- **Is top pay**: yes

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