Capital One

Banking

AppliedResearcher(AIFoundations,LLMCustomization,Finetuning,ReinforcementLearning)

$219–250k New York, New York, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Applied Researcher (AI Foundations, LLM Customization, Finetuning, Reinforcement Learning) at Capital One. Skills: AI Foundations, LLM Customization, Finetuning, Reinforcement Learning, Applied research, Deep learning models, Large deep learning models. Partnering with Academia. Building production systems”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver AI-powered products that change how customers interact with their money; Reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data; Push the latest AI developments into the next generation of customer experiences; Translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals

Industry & Context.

Banking
Problems you'll solve

Analyzing; Creating; Making the right decision for our customers; Asking questions and pushing hard to find answers; Bringing definition to big, undefined problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

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

Nice to Have

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, Optimization (Training & Inference), 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, Finetuning, 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, Data Preparation, Publications studying tokenization, data quality, dataset curation, or labeling, Contribution to a major open source corpus, Contribution to open source libraries for data quality, dataset curation, or labeling

What You'll Do.

Partnering with Academia

Building production systems

technology and business leaders to apply the state of the art in AI to business

Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists

machine learning engineers and product managers to deliver AI-powered products

Leverage a broad stack of technologies 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

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

Continually research and evaluate emerging technologies

Stay current on published state-of-the-art methods

and applications and seek out opportunities to apply them

Bring definition to big

Challenge conventional thinking and work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo

Develop further in open-source languages

Develop AI foundation models and solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms

Own and pursue a research agenda

including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, machine learning engineers and product managers; Work with product, technology and business leaders; Work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo

Communication Scope

Translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals; Flex your interpersonal skills

Process & Methodology

Own and pursue a research agenda, Autonomously carrying out long-running projects

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