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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
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Listed pay typically runs
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The Applied Researcher I joins the AI Foundations team to develop advanced machine learning systems that transform how customers interact with their money. Working within a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers, you will build AI foundation models through every phase of development, including design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation. You will leverage a technical stack featuring Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, Lightning, and VectorDBs to extract insights from massive volumes of numeric and textual data. The role focuses on high-impact applied research to integrate state-of-the-art AI developments into the next generation of customer experiences. Key responsibilities include developing large deep learning models for language, images, events, or graphs while addressing complex challenges such as training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, and reinforcement learning from human feedback.