
Applied Researcher I, AI Foundations, LLM Customization, Finetuning, Reinforcement Learning
Capital One
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: McLean • California • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $218,700 - $272,300 per year
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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
- experience building large deep learning models, whether on language, images, events, or graphs
- expertise in one or more of the following: training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, RLHF
- ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects
- member of team that has trained a large language model from scratch (10B + parameters, 500B+ tokens)
Benefits
- performance based incentive compensation which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)
- comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
deep learningtraining optimizationself-supervised learningrobustnessexplainabilityRLHFAI foundation modelsapplied researchlarge language modelsdata analysis
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillscommunicationproblem-solvingautonomycollaborationresearch agenda managementtranslating complexityimpactful decision makingproject managementteamwork
Certifications
PhD in Electrical EngineeringPhD in Computer EngineeringPhD in Computer SciencePhD in AIPhD in MathematicsM.S. in Electrical EngineeringM.S. in Computer EngineeringM.S. in Computer ScienceM.S. in AIM.S. in Mathematics