Director AI Engineer — Lead Responsible AI (Remote)

Capital One National Association; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote Employee

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Director, AI Engineer in a primarily remote role with a strong focus on scalable, responsible AI. You will lead a cross‑functional team to design, train, evaluate, and deploy AI software components including LLM inference, guardrails, and observability in production environments.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years (or 6+ with a Master’s) in AI/ML, plus 3+ years of people leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in CS/AI/EE/CE or related with 8+ years in AI/ML or Master's with 6+ years.
• At least 3 years of people leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI-powered products with cross-functional teams.
• Oversee design, training, evaluation, deployment of AI software components.
• Set guardrails, governance, observability for AI systems.
• Scale AI engineering practices across teams with reusable components.

Skills

Systems building

Leadership

Mentoring

Problem solving

Communication skills

Research literacy

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/AI/EE/CE or related

Master's Degree in Computer Science/AI/EE/CE or related

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

PyTorch

HuggingFace

VectorDBs

CUDA

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Director, AI Engineer in a primarily remote role with a strong focus on scalable, responsible AI. You will lead a cross‑functional team to design, train, evaluate, and deploy AI software components including LLM inference, guardrails, and observability in production environments.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years (or 6+ with a Master’s) in AI/ML, plus 3+ years of people leadership.