Current Master's, AI Engineering Internship Program - Summer 2027

AI Engineering Internship Program (Summer 2027)

Key Role Details

• Full-time paid internship program spanning 12 weeks from June through August.
• Interns must be located in the continental United States and attend in person at their assigned location for the duration of the program, in accordance with Capital One’s hybrid working model.
• Interns will be evaluated for a full-time position with their team and will work with their manager on identifying a start date upon graduation.

Paid internship: This is a limited-time internship position. Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. However, upon completion of the internship, you may be considered for a full-time AI Engineering role, which is eligible for employer immigration sponsorship, subject to business need, market conditions, and other factors.

Basic Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with the expectation that the required degree will be obtained by August 2028 or earlier.
• Must be continuing in the same course of study as the most recent degree following completion of the internship period.
• At least 6 months of experience or academic work developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
• At least 6 months of experience or academic work programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience or academic work deploying AI/ML systems on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Experience or academic work developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing AI/ML training or inference pipelines, including distributed GPU computational frameworks.
• Experience or academic work in AI/ML domains and systems (e.g., LLM Inference, Search and Retrieval, NLP, Computer Vision, Guardrails, Memory).
• Familiarity with agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, MCP/A2A, frontier-labs agent SDKs).

Role Summary

At Capital One, we are creating responsible and reliable AI systems—changing banking for good. Our investments in technology infrastructure and world-class talent, along with our deep experience in machine learning, position us to lead enterprises leveraging AI. You will help bring emerging AI capabilities to reimagine how we serve our customers and businesses.

Team Description

Join the AI Engineering Internship Program for a specialized summer experience that directly contributes to delivering agentic capabilities and scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure. You will help build Agentic AI applications and platform capabilities that power customer-facing experiences with GenAI workflows, and internal agentic coding tools.

You will work on the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team, tasked with advancing the state of the art in AI science and engineering. You will make valuable contributions from day one by building AI systems and shaping ideas that deliver AI-native experiences and products for our 100mm+ customers.

In this Role, You Will:

• Partner deeply with a cross-functional team of research scientists, PMs, and engineers to prototype and ship AI-native products that reach millions of customers.
• Research, prototype, and productionalize high-impact AI systems, including multimodal search, intelligent document processing, and autonomous agentic workflows.
• Design and optimize the critical infrastructure of our AI stack—from fine-tuning pre-training pipelines and reinforcement learning to implementing inference optimization, robust guardrails, and evaluation frameworks.
• Leverage a broad stack of technologies including AWS Ultraclusters, PyTorch, and leading-edge agentic frameworks. You will also have access to developer tools such as Claude Code and Windsurf to accelerate the path from concept to code.
• Architect agentic workflows that go beyond simple chat—enabling AI systems to autonomously navigate tools, orchestrate multi-step reasoning, and integrate with complex microservice environments.

The Ideal Candidate

• Curious and driven to build systems the right way, eager to tackle problems not yet attempted and help change banking for good.
• Able to move fluently from reading research to implementing in production, with a deep understanding of agentic workflows and multimodal models.
• Comfortable tackling large, undefined problems, asking questions, digging for root causes, and communicating findings clearly and concisely.
• Deeply technical, with a strong foundation in engineering and mathematics. Expertise in hardware, software, and AI enables you to identify and exploit optimization opportunities.
• Skilled at decomposing complex problems, with judgment to determine where AI adds value and how to orchestrate AI workflows using sound system design principles.

Compensation

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. This salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within the listed locations, and reflects the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based on the agreed upon number of hours regularly worked.

• McLean, VA: $147,000 - $147,000 (AI Engineer Intern)
• New York, NY: $161,000 - $161,000 (AI Engineer Intern)
• San Jose, CA: $161,000 - $161,000 (AI Engineer Intern)

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/veter) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding criminal background inquiries.

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