Current PhD, AI Engineering Internship Program - Summer 2027
Capital One1 day ago
San Jose, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAIntern
Base Salary
$176k - $192k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with research scientists, product managers, and engineers to prototype and ship AI-native products.
- Research, prototype, and productionalize multimodal search, intelligent document processing, and autonomous agentic workflows.
- Design and optimize AI infrastructure, including fine-tuning and pre-training pipelines, reinforcement learning, inference optimization, guardrails, and evaluation frameworks.
- Architect agentic workflows that navigate tools, orchestrate multi-step reasoning, and integrate with complex microservice environments.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing or obtaining a PhD in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with completion expected by August 2029 or earlier.
- Must continue in the same course of study after the internship.
- At least one year of experience or academic work developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
- At least one year of experience or academic work programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
- Preferred qualifications include cloud AI/ML deployment, distributed GPU computation, AI/ML domains such as LLM inference, search and retrieval, NLP, computer vision, guardrails, and memory, and familiarity with agentic frameworks including LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Autogen, MCP/A2A, or frontier-lab agent SDKs.
Benefits
- Full-time paid internship lasting twelve weeks from June through August.
- In-person attendance at the assigned location in the continental United States under Capital One’s hybrid working model.
- Interns may be evaluated for a full-time position with their team after graduation, subject to business need, market conditions, and other factors.
- Access to Capital One’s health, financial, and other benefits, with eligibility varying by employment status and management level.
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About Capital One
Capital One is a U.S. consumer and commercial bank that offers credit cards, checking and savings accounts, auto financing, and lending to small and large businesses. It earns revenue from interest income and interchange/fees across its card and banking products, and develops cloud-based digital services. Founded in 1994, Capital One is publicly traded on the NYSE (COF) and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.