Senior AI Foundations Researcher: Multimodal Guardrails

Capital One; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 219,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in Cambridge, MA is hiring an Applied Researcher 4 in AI Foundations: Multimodal Guardrails and VLMs. You will partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to build AI-powered features for customers.

The role emphasizes developing foundation models using open-source tools and cloud platforms, pushing research into production, and translating complex results into business value.

Qualifications

• PhD or MS with 2+ years in applied research
• Experience with AI foundation models and large-scale DL
• Publications in NLP/ML fields
• Experience deploying models at scale

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Develop AI foundation models from design to training and evaluation.
• Publish internal reports or conference submissions.
• Translate complex work into measurable business goals.

Skills

Deep learning

Large language models

NLP research

Open-source tools

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

MS + 2 years Applied Research experience

Tools

PyTorch

AWS

HuggingFace

Lightning

Job description

Capital One in Cambridge, MA is hiring an Applied Researcher 4 in AI Foundations: Multimodal Guardrails and VLMs. You will partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to build AI-powered features for customers.

The role emphasizes developing foundation models using open-source tools and cloud platforms, pushing research into production, and translating complex results into business value.