Manager, Applied Researcher

About Capital One Canada

For 30 years weve been on a mission to change banking for good. We challenge the traditional bank stereotype by integrating machine learning conversational AI and design thinking into our core operations. Were a bank a tech company would build where your work directly shapes innovative solutions that impact millions of Canadians.

Were driven by fearless curiosity bold innovation and a collective of authentic people working together to redefine whats possible. Technology isnt just part of our strategy it is our strategy. Everything we do serves our vision and the creation of whats next.

About the Team
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.

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.

About the Role

In this role you will:

• 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 its about making the right decision for our customers.
• 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.
• You thrive on bringing definition to big undefined problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. Youre not afraid to share a new idea.
• You challenge conventional thinking and work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status quo. Youre passionate about talent development for your own team and beyond.

• Youre 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.
• You have a deep understanding of the foundations of AI methodologies.
• You have 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.
• You are an engineering mindset as shown by a track record of delivering models at scale both in terms of training data and inference volumes.
• You have experience in delivering libraries platform level code or solution level code to existing products.
• You are 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.
• You 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 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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

Working at Capital One

Youll be empowered to take end-to-end ownership of your work and your career backed by a high-performance hybrid culture and holistic suite of benefits designed to support your whole self.

• Take ownership of your own potential: Whether youre looking to upskill pivot into new business areas or master your craft youll have access to tools and mentorship to reach your potential and define your career trajectory.
• Find your rhythm: We believe trust fosters the flexibility and autonomy required to balance personal needs with a focus on high performance. We support a hybrid model with 3 days in the office per week that gives room for both collaboration and personal commitments.
• Benefits built for your life: We take a holistic approach to well-being providing support for you and those who are most important to you. This includes: full coverage for spouses domestic partners and dependents a one-time Work From Home allowance to build your comfortable workspace up to $3000 in mental health coverage and up to $5000 in annual tuition subsidies.

Youll find that Capital One is committed to helping you thrive and evolve every step of the way.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

The expected annual salary range for this position is $173000 to $197400. This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation which may include cash bonus(es). Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.

Weembrace the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the candidate experience and streamline our recruitment processes. However no hiring decisions are made using AI as every hiring decision is made by our hiring managers business interviewers and recruitment professionals. Our teams are equipped with training that empowers them to use AI responsibly.

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