Applied Researcher I
Company: Capital One
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: October 23, 2024
Job Description:
Center 3 (19075), United States of America, McLean,
VirginiaApplied Researcher IAt 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.Team Description: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. -In this role, you will:
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- 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.The Ideal Candidate:
- You love the process of analyzing and creating, but also share
our passion to do the right thing. You know at the end of the day
it's about making the right decision for our customers.
- Innovative. You continually research and evaluate emerging
technologies. You stay current on published state-of-the-art
methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities
to apply them.
- Creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined
problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find
answers. You're not afraid to share a new idea.
- A leader. You challenge conventional thinking and work with
stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo. You're
passionate about talent development for your own team and
beyond.
- Technical. You're comfortable with open-source languages and
are passionate about developing further. You have hands-on
experience developing AI foundation models and solutions using
open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
- 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 high
quality 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.Basic Qualifications:
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD, with
an expectation that required degree will be obtained on or before
the scheduled start date or M.S. with at least 2 years of
experience in Applied Research -Preferred Qualifications [choose
correct set based on focus of role]:
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer
Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related
fields
- LLM
- 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
- Optimization (Training & Inference)
- 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
- Finetuning
- 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 -Capital
One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for
employment authorization for this positionThe minimum and maximum
full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by
location. Please note that this salary information is solely for
candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and
refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of
this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based
upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.New
York City (Hybrid On-Site): $230,000 - $262,500 for Applied
Researcher ISan Francisco, California (Hybrid On-Site): $243,700 -
$278,100 for Applied Researcher ICandidates hired to work in other
locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that
location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any
candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the
candidate's offer letter.This role is also eligible to earn
performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash
bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be
discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.Capital
One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of
health, financial and other benefits that support your total
well-being. Learn more at the -Capital One Careers website.
Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or
non-exempt status, and management level.This role is expected to
accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.No agencies
please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to
diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex
(including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions),
race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic
information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity,
gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected
veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable
federal, state or local law. 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.For technical
support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please
send an email to Careers@capitalone.comCapital One does not
provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party
products, services, educational tools or other information
available through this site.Capital One Financial is made up of
several different entities. Please note that any position posted in
Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United
Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the
Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp.
(COPSSC).
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