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Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations: Multimodal Guardrails and VLM's)

Capital One senior full-time

Salary

$218,700 - $249,600 per year

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Description

We are seeking an Applied Researcher 4 to join our AI Foundations team at Capital One. As an Applied Researcher, you will help bring the transformative power of emerging AI capabilities to reimagine how we serve our customers and businesses.

Job Summary: You will partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, machine learning engineers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how customers interact with their money. You will leverage a broad stack of technologies, including Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, Lightning, and more, to reveal insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with a cross-functional team to deliver AI-powered products
  • Leverage a broad stack of technologies to analyze data
  • Build AI foundation models through all phases of development
  • Engage in high-impact applied research to advance AI developments
  • Translate complex work into tangible business goals
  • Collaborate with senior researchers to prepare internal tech reports or conference submissions

Requirements:

  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields, or MS with 2 years of experience
  • Experience building large deep learning models
  • Deep understanding of AI methodologies
  • Engineering mindset with a track record of delivering models at scale
  • Experience in delivering libraries, platform-level code, or solution-level code to existing products

Preferred Qualifications:

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or related fields
  • Experience with LLM, optimization, finetuning, and deep learning theory
  • Publications in top-tier conferences

Salary: Cambridge, MA: $218,700 - $249,600 per year McLean, VA: $218,700 - $249,600 per year New York, NY: $238,600 - $272,300 per year San Jose, CA: $238,600 - $272,300 per year

Benefits: Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being.

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