Staff Applied Researcher: AI Foundations

Capital One Group; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 334,000 - 381,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Applied Researcher to advance AI foundations, train foundation models, and deploy scalable ML solutions that power real-time customer experiences.

In this IC role, you will partner with data scientists, engineers, and product managers, guiding research directions across graph and sequence modeling, RLHF, and model deployment at scale, while representing Capital One in the research community.

Qualifications

• PhD or MS with extensive applied ML research experience.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and translating research to business impact.

Responsibilities

• Partner with data scientists, software engineers, machine learning engineers and product managers to deliver AI-powered products.
• Build AI foundation models from design through training, evaluation, validation and deployment.
• Translate research into deployable capabilities that drive business value.

Skills

Applied research

Machine learning

PyTorch

Cloud computing

Open-source frameworks

Education

PhD in related field

Tools

PyTorch

AWS

Huggingface

Lightning

DGL

PyG (PyTorch Geometric)

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Applied Researcher to advance AI foundations, train foundation models, and deploy scalable ML solutions that power real-time customer experiences.

In this IC role, you will partner with data scientists, engineers, and product managers, guiding research directions across graph and sequence modeling, RLHF, and model deployment at scale, while representing Capital One in the research community.