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Sr Staff Applied Researcher

McLean, VA, US💼 Full-time💰 $350,000–$350,000🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Sr Staff Applied Researcher leading strategic AI research agenda and building production foundation models for banking customer experiences.

Role type

Sr Staff Applied Researcher (IC leader)

Builds

AI foundation models, production systems, and scalable AI infrastructure for banking products

Domain

Financial Services / AI & Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

AI foundation model development, deep learning (language, images, graphs, sequences), training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, RLHF, large-scale model deployment, open-source framework expertise

Preferred skills

Geometric deep learning (GNNs, sequential models), graph model scaling (50m+ nodes), large-scale recommender systems, real-time streaming environments, open-source contributions (PyTorch-Geometric, DGL), high-impact publications (KDD, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR)

Technologies

PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, HuggingFace, Lightning

Responsibilities

Define and evolve long-term research agenda, partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI products, build AI foundation models through full lifecycle, engage in high-impact applied research, mentor applied scientists without direct people management, represent Capital One in external research community

Seniority

Sr Staff, strategic IC leader with mentorship responsibilities

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