Current PhD, Applied Research Internship Program - Summer 2027

Capital One is a financial services company using artificial intelligence and machine learning to create reliable, automated banking experiences. The Applied Research Intern will conduct high-impact research on large-scale AI problems, collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop AI-powered products, and contribute to academic publications during a 12-week summer program.

Responsibilities:

• Join Capital One for a full-time, 12 week, summer applied research experience, discovering solutions to real world, large-scale problems
• Engage in high impact applied research with the goal of taking the latest AI developments and pushing them into the next generation of customer experiences, or contributing to publications in this field
• Partner with a cross-functional team of applied researchers, data scientists, software engineers, machine learning engineers and product managers to test and design 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
• Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals
• Partner with leading researchers to publish papers at top academic conferences
• Develop professionally through networking sessions, technical deep dives and executive speaker sessions from across Capital One