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Sr. Distinguished Applied Researcher

Capital One

* PhD focus on NLP or Masters with 10 years of industrial NLP research experience* Core contributor to team that has trained a large language model from scratch (10B + parameters, 500B+ tokens)* Numerous publications at ACL, NAACL and EMNLP, Neurips, ICML or ICLR 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)* Has worked on an LLM (open source or commercial) that is currently available for use* Demonstrated ability to guide the technical direction of a large-scale model training team* Experience working with 500+ node clusters of GPUs Has worked on LLM scaled to 70B parameters and 1T+ tokens* Experience with common training optimization frameworks (deep speed, nemo)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 . Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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