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Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations, VLM)

San Jose, CA, US💼 Full-time💰 $218,700–$218,700🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building AI foundation models and conducting high-impact applied research to integrate state-of-the-art AI capabilities into banking products and customer experiences.

Role type

Senior Applied Researcher (AI Foundations / VLM)

Builds

Production AI systems, foundation models, and scalable AI infrastructure for banking applications.

Domain

Financial Services / Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning model development, training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, RLHF, open-source frameworks, cloud computing platforms, research agenda ownership, technical report writing

Preferred skills

LLM pre-training, model compression, training parallelism, compiler design, instruction-tuning, transfer learning, dataset curation, open-source library contributions

Technologies

PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, HuggingFace, Lightning

Responsibilities

Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products, build AI foundation models through full development lifecycle, engage in applied research to push AI developments into customer experiences, collaborate on internal tech reports or conference submissions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with research leadership

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