Director, AI Engineering — Remote

Capital One; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Director, AI Engineer (Remote Eligible) to lead AI systems that power real-time, personalized banking experiences. You will oversee foundation model work, governance, and cost-efficient deployment while guiding a multi-disciplinary team.

You will drive technical vision, mentor engineers, and ensure responsible AI practices across products and platforms. This role supports a nationwide remote workforce with strong collaboration and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 8 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. Foster a culture of learning and staying abreast of the state-of-the-art in AI
• 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

Skills

Leadership

AI systems

LLM inference

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Guardrails

Production scale

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE

Master's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One seeks a Director, AI Engineer (Remote Eligible) to lead AI systems that power real-time, personalized banking experiences. You will oversee foundation model work, governance, and cost-efficient deployment while guiding a multi-disciplinary team.

You will drive technical vision, mentor engineers, and ensure responsible AI practices across products and platforms. This role supports a nationwide remote workforce with strong collaboration and growth opportunities.