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Applied Researcher I (AI Foundations)

Capital One

$214,500 - $267,000
Oct 7, 2025
New York, NY, US
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At Capital One, creating trustworthy and reliable AI systems to change banking for good by applying state of the art AI to the business, and bringing humanity and simplicity to banking

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience developing AI foundation models and solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms
  • Deep understanding of the foundations of AI methodologies
  • Experience building large deep learning models, whether on language, images, events, or graphs
  • Expertise in one or more of the following: training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, RLHF
  • Experience with Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, Lightning, VectorDBs
  • Experience with open-source languages
  • Experience with compiler design
  • Experience with large scale deep learning based recommender systems

Responsibilities

  • Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, machine learning engineers and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how customers interact with their money
  • Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Pytorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, Lightning, VectorDBs, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data
  • Build AI foundation models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation
  • Engage in high impact applied research to take the latest AI developments and push them into the next generation of customer experiences
  • Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals
  • Deliver models at scale both in terms of training data and inference volumes
  • Deliver libraries, platform level code or solution level code to existing products

Other

  • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or related fields plus 2 years of experience in Applied Research
  • Ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects
  • Strong interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals
  • Passion to do the right thing and make the right decision for our customers