Intern, Data Scientist - Fall 2026

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Toronto, ON

Intern Data Scientist role at Capital One Canada focusing on leveraging model solutions to solve complex business problems, including fraud detection, customer behavior prediction, financial risk modeling, and search engine marketing optimization. The role involves end-to-end project ownership from problem identification to solution deployment, with responsibilities in data analysis, predictive modeling, and data pipeline development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Using Python and PySpark to analyze millions of transactions to understand and predict fraud patterns.
  2. Exploring new proprietary data sources and creating predictive models or customer behavior.
  3. Applying machine learning techniques to build financial risk models.
  4. Create and test algorithms to optimize search engine marketing.
  5. Design and develop data pipelines and visualizations to monitor model performance and data quality.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or higher between January 2027 and September 2028
  • Pursuing a degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering or another quantitative discipline
  • Experience analyzing and manipulating large data sets using tools such as SQL or Python
  • Experience with statistical analysis and data mining using tools such as Python, R, SAS, Matlab, Stata, or SPSS
  • Experience building and maintaining data pipelines
  • Experience in a Linux/Unix environment, with Git, AWS, or APIs

Nice to have

  • Previous intern experience

Other signals

  • fraud detection
  • predictive modeling
  • financial risk models
  • search engine marketing optimization
  • data pipelines