Senior AI Foundations Researcher (LLMs)

Able Too Work; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 239,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an Applied Researcher 4 in San Jose, CA to collaborate with cross‑functional teams and build AI foundations that power real‑world banking experiences. You will design, train and evaluate large models, guiding them from concept to deployment in production systems.

You will push research into products, publish findings when appropriate and mentor colleagues while advancing scalable ML infrastructure and tools across the team.

Qualifications

• PhD or MS with relevant experience in AI/ML.
• Experience delivering AI models at scale and with open‑source tools.
• Strong track record in research with publications or projects.

Responsibilities

• Partner with data scientists, software engineers, ML engineers and PMs to deliver AI-powered products.
• Build AI foundation models from design through training, evaluation and deployment.
• Translate complex research into tangible business outcomes.
• Conduct applied research and push state‑of‑the‑art AI into customer experiences.
• Collaborate with senior researchers on internal reports or conference submissions.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

AI foundation models

Training optimization

Deep learning

Graph/Sequential models

Education

PhD in Electrical/Computer Science/AI

MS + 2 years Applied Research experience

Tools

PyTorch

AWS Ultraclusters

HuggingFace

Lightning

Job description

Capital One is seeking an Applied Researcher 4 in San Jose, CA to collaborate with cross‑functional teams and build AI foundations that power real‑world banking experiences. You will design, train and evaluate large models, guiding them from concept to deployment in production systems.

You will push research into products, publish findings when appropriate and mentor colleagues while advancing scalable ML infrastructure and tools across the team.