Capital One · 5 hours ago
Sr Distinguished Applied Researcher (World Models)
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$312K/yr - $356K/yr
6+ years expCapital One is creating trustworthy and reliable AI systems to change banking for good. The Sr Distinguished Applied Researcher will partner with a cross-functional team to deliver AI-powered products and engage in high impact applied research to enhance customer experiences.
BankingCredit CardsFinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Partner with a cross-functional team of scientists, machine learning engineers, software engineers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered platforms and solutions that change how customers interact with their money
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
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
Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals
Qualification
Required
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields plus 6 years of experience in Applied Research or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields plus 8 years of experience in Applied Research
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, whether on language, images, events, or graphs
Expertise in one or more of the following: training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, RLHF
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
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
Ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects
Preferred
PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related fields
PhD focus on topics in geometric deep learning (Graph Neural Networks, Sequential Models, Multivariate Time Series)
Member of technical leadership for model deployment for a very large user behavior model
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
Benefits
Performance based incentive compensation
Cash bonus(es)
Long term incentives (LTI)
Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being
Company
Capital One
Capital One is a financial services company that provides banking, credit card, auto loan, savings, and commercial banking services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.45BKey Investors
Berkshire Hathaway
2025-09-11Post Ipo Debt· $2.75B
2025-01-30Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2023-05-15Post Ipo Equity· $954M
Leadership Team
Lo Li
CTO, Managing Vice President Retail Bank
Daniel Arellano
Senior Vice President, Business Cards and Payments
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