Director, AI Engineer — Remote, Scalable AI Leader

Capital One; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One invites an experienced Director, AI Engineer to lead AI infrastructure and product initiatives remotely. You will partner with engineers, scientists, PMs to deliver AI-powered experiences across the enterprise.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, governance, and scalable systems, with compensation detailed for multiple US locations. The posting notes sponsorship eligibility and a strong focus on mentorship and strategic vision.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in AI/CS/EE/CE or related field with at least 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
• Master's degree in AI/CS/EE/CE or related field with at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
• At least 3 years of people leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
• Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability, etc.
• Make high judgment build-vs-buy decisions across a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, and more.
• Invent and introduce state-of-the-art foundation model optimization techniques to improve the performance — scalability, cost, latency, throughput — of large scale production AI systems.
• Contribute to the technical vision and the long term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One.
• Attract and retain top talent in the AI industry and nurture personal and professional development for your team.
• Translate the enterprise AI strategy into portfolio-level execution plans across multiple product areas, balancing innovation with delivery discipline.
• Scale AI engineering practices across teams through shared infrastructure, reusable components, and unified observability and governance frameworks.
• Establish enterprise standard for Responsible AI, including fairness metrics, model evaluation protocols, documentation requirements, and audit readiness.
• Partner with research, compliance, and enterprise risk teams to ensure deployed systems meet emerging ethical and regulatory standards.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields

Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields

Job description

Capital One invites an experienced Director, AI Engineer to lead AI infrastructure and product initiatives remotely. You will partner with engineers, scientists, PMs to deliver AI-powered experiences across the enterprise.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, governance, and scalable systems, with compensation detailed for multiple US locations. The posting notes sponsorship eligibility and a strong focus on mentorship and strategic vision.