# Applied Researcher 4

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: San Jose, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $218,700 - $249,600
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Finance

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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.

**Responsibilities:**

- Partner with a cross-functional team to deliver AI-powered products that change how customers interact with their money.

- Leverage a broad stack of technologies, including Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, and Lightning, to reveal insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data.

- Build AI foundation models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.

- Engage in high-impact applied research to take the latest AI developments and push them into the next generation of customer experiences.

- Translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals.

- Collaborate with senior researchers to prepare internal tech reports or conference submissions summarizing novel methods or findings.

**The Ideal Candidate:**

- Has a deep understanding of the foundations of AI methodologies.

- Experience building large deep learning models, whether on language, images, events, or graphs, as well as expertise in one or more of the following: training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, RLHF.

- An engineering mindset as shown by a track record of delivering models at scale both in terms of training data and inference volumes.

- Experience in delivering libraries, platform-level code, or solution-level code to existing products.

- A professional with a track record of coming up with high-quality ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first-author publications or projects.

- Possess the ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields, with an exception that required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields plus 2 years of experience in Applied Research.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or related fields.

- Experience with large language models, optimization, and finetuning.

**Salary Information:** The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location: Cambridge, MA: $218,700 - $249,600 McLean, VA: $218,700 - $249,600 New York, NY: $238,600 - $272,300 San Francisco, CA: $238,600 - $272,300 San Jose, CA: $238,600 - $272,300

**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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## Skills

### Required
- Pytorch
- AWS Ultraclusters
- Huggingface
- Lightning
- AI
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning

### Nice to have
- Large Language Models
- Optimization
- Finetuning
- NLP
- Computer Vision

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