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About the Role

At Capital One, we are creating trustworthy and reliable AI systems to change banking for good. We are committed to building world-class applied science and engineering teams to advance 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 and businesses.

Responsibilities

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, etc.) to reveal insights within large 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 push the latest AI developments into the next generation of customer experiences.
Translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals.
Lead cross-functional research threads that bridge prototype model development and deployment with ML engineering partners, ensuring scientific insights translate to production impact.

Requirements

Innovative: Continually research and evaluate emerging technologies and stay current on published state-of-the-art methods.
Creative: Thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems and asking questions to find answers.
Leader: Challenge conventional thinking and work with stakeholders to improve the status quo.
Technical: Comfortable with open-source languages and have hands-on experience developing AI foundation models and solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
Deep understanding of the foundations of AI methodologies.
Experience building large deep learning models (language, images, events, or graphs).
Expertise in one or more of the following: training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, RLHF.
Engineering mindset with a track record of delivering models at scale (training data and inference volumes).
Experience in delivering libraries, platform level code or solution level code to existing products.
Track record of coming up with high quality ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications or projects.
Ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects.

Skills

Pytorch
AWS Ultraclusters
Huggingface
Lightning
AI
ML
Deep Learning
NLP
Model Sparsification
Quantization
Training Parallelism/Partitioning Design
Gradient Checkpointing
Model Compression
Supervised Finetuning
Instruction-Tuning
Dialogue-Finetuning
Parameter Tuning
Transfer Learning
Model Adaptation
Model Guidance

Location

Cambridge, MA
McLean, VA
New York, NY
San Jose, CA

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Applied Researcher 5

Education Level

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields (or in process of obtaining)
MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields

Salary/Compensations

Cambridge, MA: $262,500 - $299,600
McLean, VA: $262,500 - $299,600
New York, NY: $286,400 - $326,800
San Jose, CA: $286,400 - $326,800

Benefits

Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

About the Company

Capital One is leading the industry in using machine learning to create real-time, intelligent, automated customer experiences.
The AI Foundations team is at the center of bringing our vision for AI at Capital One to life.
Our work touches every aspect of the research life cycle, from partnering with Academia to building production systems.
We work with product, technology and business leaders to apply the state of the art in AI to our business.

Equal Opportunity

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.
Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries.