Applied Researcher I (AI Foundations, LLM Customization, Finetuning, Reinforcement Learning)

Discover Financial
Cambridge, New York, San Jose
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 218,700 - 249,600 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Education: phdSkills: ["Interpersonal skills","Analytical thinking","Innovation","Creativity","Translating complexity into business goals"]

Build AI foundation models and apply state-of-the-art research to help create trustworthy, reliable AI systems for banking. Partner with data scientists, software/ML engineers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered customer experiences. Use a modern stack including PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, Lightning, and VectorDBs to design, train, evaluate, validate, and implement LLM customization, finetuning, and RLHF approaches.

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Applied Researcher I (AI Foundations, LLM Customization, Finetuning, Reinforcement Learning)

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Job Summary

Build AI foundation models and apply state-of-the-art research to help create trustworthy, reliable AI systems for banking. Partner with data scientists, software/ML engineers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered customer experiences. Use a modern stack including PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, Lightning, and VectorDBs to design, train, evaluate, validate, and implement LLM customization, finetuning, and RLHF approaches.
Location: Cambridge, New York, San Jose
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Entry level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products that improve how customers interact with their money.
  • •Leverage technologies such as PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, Lightning, and VectorDBs to extract insights from large numeric and textual datasets.
  • •Build AI foundation models across design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation phases.
  • •Conduct high-impact applied research to push new AI developments into next-generation customer experiences.
  • •Translate the complexity of research work into tangible business goals.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 218,700 - 249,600 annually
Perks:Health Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields (or an MS plus 2 years of Applied Research).
  • •Hands-on experience developing AI foundation models and solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
  • •Deep understanding of AI methodologies, including experience with large deep learning models across domains such as language, images, events, or graphs.
  • •Expertise in one or more areas such as training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, and RLHF.
  • •Experience delivering libraries/platform-level or solution-level code to existing products.
Experience:Machine learningLLMDeep learningReinforcement learningNLP
Education:PhD / Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields
Skills:Interpersonal skillsAnalytical thinkingInnovationCreativityTranslating complexity into business goals
Tech Stack:PyTorchAWS UltraclustersHuggingfaceLightningVectorDBsOpen-sourceLLMNLPRLHF

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Sponsorship available.

Company Brief

Discover Financial
Provides consumer banking products, credit cards, personal loans, and payment services through the Discover brand. It operates a major U.S. financial network and serves individuals and merchants with lending and digital payment solutions.
Industry: Retail Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 10M to 25M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Riverwoods, United States
Founded: 1985
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