Senior Applied AI Scientist - Foundation Models

Capital One; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an Applied Researcher 5 to lead AI foundation model projects across the research lifecycle. You will collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to translate cutting-edge AI techniques into real customer experiences.

The role emphasizes ownership of research agendas, publication-grade work, and a track record of delivering scalable ML systems in production environments. Relocation flexibility and sponsorship options may apply.

Qualifications

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields, or MS with required experience.
• Experience in applied AI/ML research with production-facing impact.
• Ability to own and pursue a long-running research agenda.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products for customer interactions.
• Leverage a broad stack to extract insights from large numeric/text data.
• Build AI foundation models from design to deployment and evaluation.
• Translate research into production impact through collaboration with ML engineering.

Skills

Pytorch

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

Lightning

Open-source ML

Production deployment

Education

PhD in CS/EE/AI

MS + 4 years Applied Research

Tools

Cloud platforms

Open-source ML tools

Job description

Capital One is seeking an Applied Researcher 5 to lead AI foundation model projects across the research lifecycle. You will collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to translate cutting-edge AI techniques into real customer experiences.

The role emphasizes ownership of research agendas, publication-grade work, and a track record of delivering scalable ML systems in production environments. Relocation flexibility and sponsorship options may apply.