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Applied Researcher I (AI Foundations)

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Capital One

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218700.00 - 272300.00 USD / Year
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At Capital One, we are creating trustworthy and reliable AI systems, changing banking for good. We are committed to building world-class applied science and engineering teams and continue our industry leading capabilities with breakthrough product experiences and scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure. You will help bring the transformative power of emerging AI capabilities to reimagine how we serve our customers.

Job Responsibility:

  • Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, machine learning engineers and product managers to deliver AI-powered products
  • Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, Lightning, VectorDBs, and more — to reveal insights hidden within huge volumes of 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 interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of the work into tangible business goals

Requirements:

  • 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
  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related fields
  • 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 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
What we offer:
  • Performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)
  • Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support total well-being

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Job Posted:
March 04, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
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