Director, AI Engineering — Build Responsible AI at Scale

ITSMF; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Director AI Engineer to lead a team building responsible, scalable AI systems for banking. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs, and compliance to deliver AI-powered products and manage foundation model work across AWS, PyTorch, and VectorDBs.

The role demands deep technical mastery in AI/ML, strong leadership, and a track record of delivering enterprise AI platforms with governance and ethical standards. Based in San Jose, CA.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI-powered products with cross-functional teams.
• Oversee AI software design, development, testing, deployment and support.
• Lead foundation model training, LLM inference, and evaluation.
• Implement guardrails and governance for AI systems.
• Drive observability and performance optimization.

Skills

AI Engineering

Leadership

ML Research

Python

C++

Cloud Platforms

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI/EE

Tools

AWS

HuggingFace

PyTorch

VectorDBs

CUDA

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Director AI Engineer to lead a team building responsible, scalable AI systems for banking. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs, and compliance to deliver AI-powered products and manage foundation model work across AWS, PyTorch, and VectorDBs.

The role demands deep technical mastery in AI/ML, strong leadership, and a track record of delivering enterprise AI platforms with governance and ethical standards. Based in San Jose, CA.