Senior AI Foundations Researcher

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 350,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Applied Researcher to drive research and collaboration across AI foundations, engineering and product teams. You will mentor scientists, contribute to model development, and translate complex research into practical business outcomes.

The role emphasizes leadership without direct reports, external research presence, and delivering scalable AI solutions with state-of-the-art methods.

Qualifications

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields plus 6 years of Applied Research experience or MS plus 8 years of Applied Research experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered platforms and solutions.
• Build AI foundation models through all development phases: design, training, evaluation, validation and implementation.
• Engage in high impact applied research to advance AI developments into customer experiences.
• Leverage technologies to reveal insights from large numeric and textual data.

Skills

Pytorch

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

Lightning

VectorDBs

Open-source languages

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

DeepSpeed

Nemo

Python

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Applied Researcher to drive research and collaboration across AI foundations, engineering and product teams. You will mentor scientists, contribute to model development, and translate complex research into practical business outcomes.

The role emphasizes leadership without direct reports, external research presence, and delivering scalable AI solutions with state-of-the-art methods.