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Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations, LLM Core and Agentic AI)

Capital One senior full-time

Salary

Cambridge, MA: $218,700 - $249,600 McLea…

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Description

At Capital One, we are creating trustworthy and reliable AI systems, changing banking for good.

The AI Foundations team is at the center of bringing our vision for AI at Capital One to life. Our work touches every aspect of the research life cycle, from partnering with Academia to building production systems.

Responsibilities:

  • 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.
  • Leverage a broad stack of technologies , Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, Lightning, and more , to reveal the 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.
  • Flex your interpersonal skills to 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:

  • You love the process of analyzing and creating, but also share our passion to do the right thing.
  • Innovative. You continually research and evaluate emerging technologies.
  • Creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems.
  • A leader. You challenge conventional thinking and work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo.
  • Technical. You’re comfortable with open-source languages and are passionate about developing further.
  • Has a deep understanding of the foundations of AI methodologies.
  • Experience building large deep learning models, whether on language, images, events, or graphs.
  • An engineering mindset as shown by a track record of delivering models at scale both in terms of training data and inference volumes.

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.
  • 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.
  • LLM
  • PhD focus on NLP or Masters with 5 years of industrial NLP research experience.
  • Multiple publications on topics related to the pre-training of large language models.
  • Member of team that has trained a large language model from scratch (10B + parameters, 500B+ tokens).
  • Publications in deep learning theory.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

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