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Applied Researcher II (AI Foundations)

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Capital One

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United States , New York

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262500.00 - 326800.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

At Capital One, we are creating trustworthy and reliable AI systems, changing banking for good. For years, Capital One has been leading the industry in using machine learning to create real-time, intelligent, automated customer experiences. From informing customers about unusual charges to answering their questions in real time, our applications of AI & ML are bringing humanity and simplicity to banking. 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. At Capital One, you will help bring the transformative power of emerging AI capabilities to reimagine how we serve our customers and businesses who have come to love the products and services we build.

Job Responsibility:

  • 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 Ultraclusters, Huggingface, Lightning, VectorDBs, 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

Requirements:

  • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, 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 plus 2 years of experience in Applied Research or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields plus 4 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

Nice to have:

  • Innovative
  • Creative
  • A leader
  • Technical
  • Has a deep understanding of the foundations of AI methodologies
  • Experience building large deep learning models, whether on language, images, events, or graphs, as well as expertise in one or more of the following: training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, RLHF
  • An engineering mindset as shown by a track record of delivering models at scale both in terms of training data and inference volumes
  • Experience in delivering libraries, platform level code or solution level code to existing products
  • A professional with a track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications or projects
  • Possess the ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects
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 your total well-being

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 16, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
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