Capital One
Banking
AppliedResearcher(AIFoundations,LLMCustomization,Finetuning,ReinforcementLearning)
“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.
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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