Current PhD - Data Science Internship - Summer 2021

As a Data Scientist at Capital One, you'll be part of a high-performing team that's embracing the latest in computing technologies to unlock opportunities that help everyday people save money and improve their financial lives. You'll help our customers solve their financial services challenges by using groundbreaking techniques. You'll make valuable contributions from day one by continuously learning, engaging in diverse sets of experiences and building close-knit relationships across the company.

On any given day, you might:

• Evaluate open-source and internally-developed modeling and analytics tools using real business data

• Integrate internal data with external data sources and APIs to discover and implement actionable insights

• Design and craft rich data visualizations to communicate stories to customers and company leadership

We'd love to find someone who is...

• Intellectually curious. You ask why, you explore, and you are excited to imagine and create new ideas by inventing self-adaptive models or by tapping into unstructured data sources. You love mining data for insights into behaviors, intent and sentiment

• A builder.You are passionate about delivering better experiences and better products to our customers and have a deep sense of ownership for your craft.

• An experimental scientist.You love putting on your lab coat and trying new things, new combinations of tools, techniques and feature engineering approaches even if you sometimes fail.

Are you ready to join a community of talented individuals who embrace customer problems and use their passion and capabilities to make a difference every single day? If you're interested in a long-term career at Capital One, the Data Science internship could be a great way to begin your career journey!

Basic Qualifications:

• PhD degree obtained between December 2021 and August 2024

• At least 6 months of experience or academic work in open source programming languages for data analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience with either Python or R, plus one other general-purpose programming language

• Experience or academic work in inferential statistics

• Experience or academic work in machine learning

• Experience or academic with relational databases

• Experience or academic with large scale data analysis

This is a paid internship. This is a limited-time internship position, and Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. However, a full-time Data Science role, for which you may be considered upon completion of the internship (subject to business need, market conditions, and other factors) is eligible for employer immigration sponsorship.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; Newark, New Jersey Ordinance 12-1630; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.