Capital One Principal Data Scientist - LLM Customization Team 

United States, Virginia, Arlington 

830090943

In this role, you will:

• Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, applied researchers, 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, Hugging Face, AWS Ultraclusters, LangChain, VectorDBs, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data.

• Be the expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to harness the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), adapt and finetune them for business specific applications and features.

• Build NLP models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, and validation; partnering with engineering teams to operationalize them in scalable and resilient production systems.

• Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals.
  

The Ideal Candidate is:

• 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.

• Technical. You’re comfortable with advanced ML and DL technologies including language models and are passionate about developing further. You have hands-on experience working with LLMs and solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.

• Influential. You are passionate about AI/ML and can bring along a cross functional team in breakthrough innovations. You communicate clearly and effectively to share your findings with non-technical audiences.

• You are experienced in training language models or large computer vision models as well as have expertise in one or more key subdomains such as: training optimization, self-supervised learning, explainability, RLHF.

• You have an engineering mindset as shown by a track record of delivering models at scale both in training data and inference volumes. You have experience in delivering libraries, platforms, or solution level code to existing products.

Basic Qualifications:

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree plus 5 years of experience in data analytics, or currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Master’s Degree plus 3 years in data analytics, or currently has, or is in the process of obtaining PhD, with an expectation that required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date

• At least 1 year of experience in open source programming languages for large scale data analysis

• At least 1 year of experience with machine learning

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 3 years of experience in data analytics, or PhD in “STEM” field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics)

• At least 1 year of experience working with AWS

• At least 3 years’ experience in Python, Scala, or R

• At least 3 years’ experience with machine learning

• At least 3 years’ experience with SQL

• At least 1 year of experience with relational databases

New York City (Hybrid On-Site):
$165,100 - $188,500 for Data Science PhD

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.

. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

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