Applied Researcher 5 (AI Foundations: Evaluation and Agentic Workflows)
Capital One · CA, US
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About the Role
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. 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.
Responsibilities
- 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, 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 interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of 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
- Currently have, or be 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 focus on topics in geometric deep learning (Graph Neural Networks, Sequential Models, Multivariate Time Series).
- Multiple papers on topics relevant to training models on graph and sequential data structures at KDD, ICML, NeurIPs, ICLR.
- Worked on scaling graph models to greater than 50m nodes.
- Experience with large scale deep learning based recommender systems.
- Experience with production real-time and streaming environments.
- Contributions to common open source frameworks (pytorch-geometric, DGL).
- Proposed new methods for inference or representation learning on graphs or sequences.
- Worked datasets with 100m+ users.
- Proven ability to design and lead small-scale research initiatives, guiding junior researchers or engineers through experimental design and evaluation.
Skills
- Pytorch
- AWS Ultraclusters
- Huggingface
- Lightning
- AI methodologies
- Large deep learning models
- Training optimization
- Self-supervised learning
- Robustness
- Explainability
- RLHF
- Open-source languages
- Cloud computing platforms
Location
- Cambridge, MA
- McLean, VA
- New York, NY
- San Jose, CA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Applied Researcher 5
Education Level
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering 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.
- Eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).
About the Company
- 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, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
- If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.