Senior AI Foundations & LLM Researcher

Capital One; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One National Association seeks an Applied Researcher 5 to advance AI foundations and agentic AI in our banking applications. You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to build production-ready AI models and scalable infrastructure.

You will lead research efforts, translate findings into business value, and push the state-of-the-art toward real customer impact. This role emphasizes responsible, scalable AI and strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• PhD or MS with required years of experience in Applied Research as stated in the Basic Qualifications.
• Strong foundation in AI methodologies and large language models.
• Experience delivering AI libraries or platform-level code to products.

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 analyze large numeric and textual data.
• Build AI foundation models through design, training, evaluation, and deployment stages.
• Translate research insights into production impact with ML engineering partners.
• Communicate complex work in business terms to drive outcomes.
• Lead research threads bridging prototype models and production systems.

Education

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics or related fields

MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics or related fields

Tools

PyTorch

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

Lightning

Job description

Capital One National Association seeks an Applied Researcher 5 to advance AI foundations and agentic AI in our banking applications. You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to build production-ready AI models and scalable infrastructure.

You will lead research efforts, translate findings into business value, and push the state-of-the-art toward real customer impact. This role emphasizes responsible, scalable AI and strong collaboration across teams.