Senior AI Foundations Researcher

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

Job summary

Capital One is building world‑class AI foundations to transform banking with AI-powered customer experiences. The team collaborates across product, technology, and business to design production-grade models and scalable ML infrastructure in a fast-paced environment.

The role focuses on developing foundation models, applying state‑of‑the‑art NLP methods, and translating research into real customer outcomes while collaborating with senior researchers and engineers.

Qualifications

• PhD or MSc with 2+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience building large DL models.
• Experience with LLMs and NLP pre-training.
• Publications in ML/AI fields.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Leverage stack of PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, Lightning for data insights.
• Build AI foundation models from design to deployment.
• Engage in applied research to push AI into customer experiences.
• Translate complex work into tangible business goals.
• Prepare internal reports or conference submissions with senior researchers.

Skills

AI research

Deep learning

NLP

PyTorch

Cloud computing

Open-source

Experiment design

Communication

Leadership

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 plus 2 years of Applied Research

Tools

PyTorch

Huggingface

Lightning

AWS Ultraclusters

Cloud platforms

Job description

Capital One is building world‑class AI foundations to transform banking with AI-powered customer experiences. The team collaborates across product, technology, and business to design production-grade models and scalable ML infrastructure in a fast-paced environment.

The role focuses on developing foundation models, applying state‑of‑the‑art NLP methods, and translating research into real customer outcomes while collaborating with senior researchers and engineers.