Capital One is a leading financial services company focused on creating trustworthy and reliable AI systems. The Applied Researcher I role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to develop AI-powered products, leveraging advanced technologies to analyze large datasets and contribute to innovative customer experiences.
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, VectorDBs, 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.
Qualification
Required
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
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 (e.g. technical reports of pre-trained LLMs, SSL techniques, model pre-training optimization)
Member of team that has trained a large language model from scratch (10B + parameters, 500B+ tokens)
Publications in deep learning theory
Publications at ACL, NAACL and EMNLP, Neurips, ICML or ICLR
PhD focused on topics related to optimizing training of very large deep learning models
Multiple years of experience and/or publications on one of the following topics: Model Sparsification, Quantization, Training Parallelism/Partitioning Design, Gradient Checkpointing, Model Compression
Experience optimizing training for a 10B+ model
Deep knowledge of deep learning algorithmic and/or optimizer design
Experience with compiler design
PhD focused on topics related to guiding LLMs with further tasks (Supervised Finetuning, Instruction-Tuning, Dialogue-Finetuning, Parameter Tuning)
Demonstrated knowledge of principles of transfer learning, model adaptation and model guidance
Experience deploying a fine-tuned large language model
Benefit
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
Capital One is a financial services company that provides banking, credit card, auto loan, savings, and commercial banking services.
