Applied Researcher ; AI Foundations

Job Summary
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Capital One is a leading financial institution focused on creating trustworthy and reliable AI systems to enhance banking experiences. In this role, you will partner with a cross-functional team to deliver AI-powered products, engage in applied research, and build AI foundation models to improve customer interactions with their finances.

Responsibilities
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• 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 Ultra clusters, Huggingface, Lightning, Vector

DBs, 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.

Qualifications
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Required
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• 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
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• 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 Fine tuning, Instruction-Tuning, Dialogue-Fine tuning, Parameter Tuning)

• Demonstrated knowledge of principles of transfer learning, model adaptation and model guidance

• Experience deploying a fine-tuned large language model

Company
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Capital One is a financial services company that provides banking, credit card, auto loan, savings, and commercial banking services. Founded in 1994, the company is headquartered in Mclean, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.