Summer PhD Applied Research Intern — AI Foundations

Capital One; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 188,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Networking sessions

Executive speaker sessions

Job summary

Capital One's Applied Research Internship Program invites PhD students to join the AI Foundations team for a 12-week summer experience, tackling real-world, large-scale problems with state-of-the-art methods. You will collaborate with a cross-functional group of researchers, data scientists, and engineers, publish findings at top venues, and gain exposure to production-ready AI systems used in banking.

The program emphasizes hands-on experimentation, mentorship, and professional development

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program with 1st year coursework completed by June 2027.
• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related fields.
• Programming experience (e.g. Python) and experience with at least one deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch).
• Publications in leading conferences such as ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, KDD, or CVPR.
• Focused area of research includes Foundation Models, Reinforcement Learning, Causal Inference and other listed topics.

Responsibilities

• Join Capital One for a full-time, 12 week, summer applied research experience.
• Engage in high impact applied research and publish findings at top venues.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to design AI-powered product solutions for banking.
• Leverage a broad stack of technologies to extract insights from large data.
• Develop professionally through networking sessions and executive speaker events.

Skills

Publications in leading conferences

Deep learning theory

Foundation Models

Reinforcement Learning

Causal Inference

Sequential User Behavior Modeling

Model Inference Optimization

Interpretability

Education

PhD in Computer Science / ML / related field

Tools

Python

PyTorch

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

Lightning

VectorDBs

Job description

Capital One's Applied Research Internship Program invites PhD students to join the AI Foundations team for a 12-week summer experience, tackling real-world, large-scale problems with state-of-the-art methods. You will collaborate with a cross-functional group of researchers, data scientists, and engineers, publish findings at top venues, and gain exposure to production-ready AI systems used in banking.

The program emphasizes hands-on experimentation, mentorship, and professional development