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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
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The Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations, LLM Customization and Finetuning) joins the AI Foundations team to develop trustworthy and reliable AI systems. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to build AI-powered products and foundation models through all phases of development, including design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation. You will leverage a technology stack including Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, and Lightning to extract insights from large volumes of numeric and textual data. Key responsibilities include conducting high-impact applied research, translating complex work into business goals, and preparing technical reports or conference submissions. The work focuses on pushing state-of-the-art AI developments into production to improve customer experiences and solve complex problems involving large deep learning models.
Build AI foundation models through all phases of development including design, training, evaluation, and implementation.
Leverage Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, and Huggingface to extract insights from large volumes of numeric and textual data.
Conduct high-impact applied research to integrate the latest AI developments into next-generation customer experiences.
Develop and deploy large deep learning models for language, images, events, or graphs at scale.
Translate complex technical research into tangible business goals for product and technology leaders.
Prepare internal technical reports or conference submissions summarizing novel methods and research findings.
Own and pursue a research agenda by identifying impactful problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects.
What we're looking for
Currently hold or are obtaining a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or a related field.
Hold an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or a related field plus 2 years of experience in Applied Research.
Have hands-on experience developing AI foundation models and solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
Possess a deep understanding of the foundations of AI methodologies.
Have experience building large deep learning models for language, images, events, or graphs.
Possess expertise in training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, or RLHF.
Have a track record of delivering models at scale in terms of training data and inference volumes.
Have experience delivering libraries, platform-level code, or solution-level code to existing products.
Pytorch
AWS
Huggingface
Lightning
LLM
NLP
Deep Learning
RLHF
Quantization
Model Sparsification
Training Parallelism
Supervised Finetuning
Instruction-Tuning
Transfer Learning
Tokenization