Applied AI Researcher: Foundation Models & LLMs

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a senior AI researcher to partner with data scientists, software engineers, ML engineers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products.

You will build AI foundation models through design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation, using PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, and other tools to translate research into business outcomes for banking products.

Qualifications

• Pursuing or holding a PhD in a related technical field.
• Deep understanding of AI foundations and methodologies.
• Experience building large deep learning models for language, images, events, or graphs.
• Expertise in training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, or RLHF.
• Proven ability to deliver models at scale in training data and inference volumes.
• Experience delivering libraries or platform-level code for products.
• Strong track record of impactful ML research (publications or notable projects).
• Ability to own a research agenda and drive long-running projects autonomously.
• Hands-on AI foundation model development using open-source tools and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with data scientists, software engineers, ML engineers, and PMs to deliver AI-powered products.
• Leverage PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, Lightning, VectorDBs and other tech to analyze data.
• Build AI foundation models through design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.
• Conduct applied research to advance AI capabilities and customer experiences.
• Translate complex research into tangible business goals.
• Apply state-of-the-art AI research to Capital One's banking products and services.

Skills

Deep learning

AI methodologies

Model Training

Model Evaluation

Applied Research

NLP

Supervised Finetuning

Instruction-Tuning

Dialogue-Finetuning

Parameter Tuning

Education

PhD in Electrical Engineering

PhD in Computer Engineering

PhD in Computer Science

PhD in AI

Mathematics or related field

MS + 2 years Applied Research

Tools

PyTorch

AWS Ultraclusters

Hugging Face

Lightning

VectorDBs

Open-Source Tools

Cloud Computing Platforms

Job description

Capital One is seeking a senior AI researcher to partner with data scientists, software engineers, ML engineers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products.

You will build AI foundation models through design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation, using PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, and other tools to translate research into business outcomes for banking products.