Senior Director, Data Science (Remote-Eligible)
Capital One · Salem, OR
$286,200–$326,700from the description
Jul 22, 2026
Salem, OR
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior leadership role within a team focused on agentic AI systems and multi-agent frameworks, responsible for shaping how machine learning models are built, deployed, and managed at scale. The position involves guiding cross-functional teams of engineers and researchers, influencing executive and regulatory stakeholders on model strategy, and overseeing the full lifecycle from model design through validation. Best suited to a deeply technical data science leader with extensive machine learning and cloud experience.
Principal level · 9+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Principal.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 9 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,050 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 2,400–6,100
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $122,874 (middle half $87,544–$162,374). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The title is 'Senior Director' but the role is hands-on technical leadership (building/validating ML models, agentic AI systems, open-source tooling) rather than pure people management, so it is classified as a senior individual-contributor data science role (15-2051) rather than a CIS Manager (11-3021). However, the org-wide scope, cross-functional influence, and regulatory engagement push the actual seniority to Principal despite the 'Senior' title advertising only a Senior-level role.
The Basic Qualifications state tiered degree+experience combinations: BS+11 yrs, MS+9 yrs, or PhD+6 yrs of data analytics experience. The minimum total experience (9 years with a Master's) is used for the overall years minimum; the degree requirement reflects the lowest qualifying degree (Bachelor's), since equivalent experience paths are offered at each tier.
The 6-year requirement for 'open-source programming languages for large scale data analysis' appears in Basic Qualifications as a hard gate; the Preferred section then names Python, Scala, or R specifically for the same requirement — those are marked preferred since they appear under the Preferred heading.
The salary range shown ($286,200–$326,700) is the Remote (regardless of location) band. The McLean, VA band is higher ($314,800–$359,300); the remote figure is used as it is the broader/default range for this remote-eligible posting.
Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, GitHub, and Sonar are all listed together under the Preferred DevOps/CI/CD bullet and are marked preferred accordingly.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): open-source programming languages.
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