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Current PhD Data Science Internship Summer 2024

  • Full Time Internship
  • McLean, VA
  • Applications have closed

Website Capital One

Key Role Details

This is a full-time paid internship program spanning ten weeks from June through August 2024.
Participation in the internship requires that you are located in the continental United States with in-person attendance at your assigned location, in accordance with Capital One‡s hybrid working model, for the duration of the program.
Interns will be evaluated for a full-time position with their team and will work with their manager on identifying a start date upon graduation
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-timeData Sciencerole, 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.

Basic Qualifications

Currently pursuing a PhD with an expectation that degree will be obtained by August 2027 or earlier
Must be continuing in the same course of study of the most recent degree following completion of the internship
At least 1 year of experience or academic work using open source programming languages for data analysis
Direct experience with either Python, R or SQL
Preferred Qualifications:

Experience or academic work in inferential statistics
Experience or academic work in machine learning
Experience or academic work with relational databases
Experience or academic work with large scale data analysis
Data Science Internship – 2024

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 data science models to communicate solutions 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.
A Communicator. You seek to connect with teammates and business partners to share technical ideas that resonate with audience needs across verbal and written channels.
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!

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

San Francisco, California: (Hybrid On-Site):

$191,000 – $191,000 for Data Science PhD Intern

New York City: (Hybrid On-Site):

$181,000 – $181,000 for Data Science PhD Intern

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate‡s offer letter.