Applied AI Researcher I — Foundations & LLMs

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 239,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an Applied Researcher I (AI Foundations, VLM) to advance AI capabilities that transform customer experiences. You will collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, ML engineers and product managers to deliver AI-powered products at scale using open-source tools and cloud platforms.

You will contribute to training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, and RLHF, building large DL models across language, vision, or graphs with impactful

Qualifications

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics or related fields, or MS with 2 years of applied research experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, ML engineers and PMs to deliver AI-powered products.
• Leverage technologies (PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, Lightning, VectorDBs) to extract insights from large data.
• Build AI foundation models from design to training, evaluation, validation and deployment.
• Translate complex work into tangible business goals with strong communication.
• Deliver research that pushes AI into next-gen customer experiences.

Skills

LLM/NLP focus

Publications

Large language models

Training optimization

Finetuning

Education

PhD or MS + 2 years Applied Research

Job description

Capital One is seeking an Applied Researcher I (AI Foundations, VLM) to advance AI capabilities that transform customer experiences. You will collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, ML engineers and product managers to deliver AI-powered products at scale using open-source tools and cloud platforms.

You will contribute to training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, and RLHF, building large DL models across language, vision, or graphs with impactful