Lead AI Foundations Researcher — Multimodal

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

Job summary

Capital One seeks an Applied Researcher 4 to advance AI foundations, focusing on multimodal guardrails and vision-language models. You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered banking solutions and robust foundation models.

The role emphasizes research excellence, publication potential, and building scalable AI platforms that impact customer experiences across Capital One's banking services.

Qualifications

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields (or MS with 2 years applied research experience)
• Strong publication record in ML/NLP and solid foundation in DL concepts
• Experience building and deploying large language models and AI libraries

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products that change how customers interact with their money
• Leverage PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, HuggingFace, Lightning to extract insights from large numeric/text data
• Build AI foundation models from design through training, evaluation, and deployment
• Translate complex work into tangible business goals and communicate results to stakeholders
• Collaborate with senior researchers to prepare internal tech reports or conference submissions
• Contribute to scalable AI infrastructure and model libraries

Skills

LLM

NLP

Deep Learning

Python

Cloud

Education

PhD in EE/CS/AI

MS + 2 years Applied Research

Tools

PyTorch

HuggingFace

AWS Ultraclusters

Lightning

Job description

Capital One seeks an Applied Researcher 4 to advance AI foundations, focusing on multimodal guardrails and vision-language models. You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered banking solutions and robust foundation models.

The role emphasizes research excellence, publication potential, and building scalable AI platforms that impact customer experiences across Capital One's banking services.