Applied Researcher IV

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NYMcLean, VACambridge, MASan Jose, CA
Salary
$218,700–$249,600 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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This role pays more than 55% of similar roles. Most pay $193,935–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $234k versus about $224k for comparable roles.

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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

Capital One Financial currently has 878 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 872 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Applied Researcher IV

As an Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations, LLM Core and Agentic AI), you will join the AI Foundations team to develop trustworthy and reliable AI systems for banking applications. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to build AI foundation models through every phase of development, including design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation. Your daily work involves uncovering insights within massive volumes of numeric and textual data to create next-generation customer experiences. To achieve these goals, you will utilize a technical stack featuring PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, and Lightning. You will also leverage expertise in large deep learning models, training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, and RLHF to solve complex problems involving language, images, events, or graphs within the financial services domain.

What you'll do

  • Build AI foundation models through all phases of development including design, training, evaluation, and implementation.
  • Conduct high-impact applied research to integrate state-of-the-art AI developments into customer experience products.
  • Analyze large volumes of numeric and textual data using tools like PyTorch, Hugging Face, and AWS Ultraclusters.
  • Translate complex technical research into tangible business goals for stakeholders and product managers.
  • Prepare internal technical reports or conference submissions to summarize novel methods and findings.
  • Develop scalable models and production-level code for high-volume training and inference.
  • Identify and solve large, undefined problems by researching and evaluating emerging technologies.
  • Own and execute a research agenda by selecting impactful problems and managing long-running projects.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • Alternatively, must have an M.S. in a relevant field plus 2 years of experience in Applied Research.
  • Experience building large deep learning models for language, images, events, or graphs is required.
  • Expertise in training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, or RLHF is required.
  • Must have an engineering mindset with a track record of delivering models at scale for both training and inference.
  • Experience delivering libraries, platform-level code, or solution-level code to existing products is required.
  • A track record of high-quality ideas in machine learning, such as first-author publications, is required.
  • Ability to own a research agenda and autonomously carry out long-running projects is required.

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