Senior AI Foundations Researcher: LLMs, Optimization & Fine-tuning

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 263,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based incentives

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an Applied Researcher 5 to advance AI foundation models and large-scale training across its Cambridge, MA and McLean, VA locations. You will work with data scientists, software engineers, ML engineers, and product managers to push the boundaries of AI in banking.

Responsibilities include designing, training, evaluating, and deploying models, plus driving applied research into production.

Qualifications

• PhD in CS/AI or related field with start date within 2 years of position.
• MS in CS/EE with 4+ years of applied research experience acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional data scientists, engineers, and PMs to deliver AI-powered products.
• Develop and refine AI foundation models from design through deployment.
• Translate research insights into production-ready systems.
• Lead high-impact applied research projects and publish results.

Skills

AI foundations

LLM

Training optimization

Self-supervised learning

Robustness

Explainability

RLHF

Open-source tools

Education

PhD in Computer Science / AI / Electrical Engineering

MS in CS/EE with applied research experience

Tools

Pytorch

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

Lightning

Job description

Capital One is seeking an Applied Researcher 5 to advance AI foundation models and large-scale training across its Cambridge, MA and McLean, VA locations. You will work with data scientists, software engineers, ML engineers, and product managers to push the boundaries of AI in banking.

Responsibilities include designing, training, evaluating, and deploying models, plus driving applied research into production.