Capital One
Current PhD, AI Engineering Internship Program - Summer 2027
$176K–$192K
New York, NY +2 · Internship · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
McLean, VA
San Jose, CA - Experience
- At least 1 year each in AI/ML algorithm or technology development and programming; experience may be professional or academic.
- Education
- Currently has or is pursuing a PhD in a specified or related field, expected by August 2029 or earlier.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this internship. A full-time AI Engineering role that an intern may be considered for after completion is eligible for employer immigration sponsorship.
About the job
A 12-week summer internship building and productionizing agentic AI products, workflows, and scalable AI infrastructure for customer-facing experiences.
What you'll do
- Partner with research scientists, product managers, and engineers to prototype and ship AI-native products.
- Research, prototype, and productionize AI systems, including multimodal search, intelligent document processing, and autonomous agentic workflows.
- Design and optimize AI training and inference infrastructure, guardrails, and evaluation frameworks; build agentic workflows integrated with tools and microservices.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, expected by August 2029 or earlier.
- Must continue in the same course of study after the internship.
- At least 1 year of experience or academic work developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
- At least 1 year of experience or academic work programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
Nice to have
- Experience deploying AI/ML systems on cloud platforms, optimizing AI/ML training or inference pipelines, or working with AI/ML domains and systems.
- Familiarity with Agentic Frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Autogen, MCP/A2A, or frontier-labs agent SDKs.
Pay
$176,000 - $176,000 USD annualized salary (AI Engineer PhD Intern, McLean, VA); $192,000 - $192,000 USD annualized salary (AI Engineer PhD Intern, New York, NY); $192,000 - $192,000 USD annualized salary (AI Engineer PhD Intern, San Jose, CA)
Tools
Python, Go, Scala, Java, AWS Ultraclusters, PyTorch, Claude Code, Windsurf
AI focus
Build agentic AI applications and infrastructure, including multimodal search, intelligent document processing, autonomous workflows, training and inference optimization, guardrails, and evaluation.
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