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Sr. Director, Applied Researcher

Capital One McLean, VA, VA senior full-time

Salary

Cambridge, MA: $350,000 - $399,500 McLea… per year

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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.

As a Sr. Director, Applied Researcher, you will lead teams to drive strategic direction through collaboration with Applied Science, Engineering and Product leaders across Capital One.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with a cross-functional team of applied researchers, data scientists, AI 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 and apply 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.
  • Set the strategic research vision and roadmap for the organization, ensuring alignments between long-term scientific discovery and business transformation priorities.

Requirements:

  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields plus 6 years of experience in Applied Research or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields plus 8 years of experience in Applied Research.
  • At least 5 years of people leadership experience.

Benefits:

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

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • LLM
  • NLP
  • Geometric Deep Learning
  • Graph Neural Networks
  • Sequential Models
  • Multivariate Time Series

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