Director of AI Engineering (Remote)

Capital One

Carson City (NV)

Remote

USD 245,000 - 335,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

Capital One seeks a Director, AI Engineer to lead AI engineering efforts on responsible AI applications. The role oversees foundation models, inference, and knowledge graphs, partnering with engineers, scientists, PMs, and governance teams.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in AI/ML, 3+ years of people leadership, and a track record of building scalable AI systems on cloud platforms. This remote-eligible role offers global teams and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's in a related field with 6–8+ years in AI/ML development.
  • Minimum 3 years of people leadership experience.
  • Experience deploying scalable AI on cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Lead AI engineer teams to deliver AI-powered products.
  • Oversee design, development, testing, deployment of AI software components.
  • Make build-vs-buy decisions across Open Source and SaaS AI tech.
  • Drive foundation model optimization for scale, cost, latency.
  • Contribute to long-term AI platform roadmap.
  • Foster learning and development within the team.
  • Translate AI strategy into portfolio-level plans.

Skills

AI engineering leadership
Cloud platforms
LLM inference
VectorDBs
Python/C++/Java/CUDA
Cross-team leadership

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

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters
Huggingface
VectorDBs
PyTorch

Job description

Capital One seeks a Director, AI Engineer to lead AI engineering efforts on responsible AI applications. The role oversees foundation models, inference, and knowledge graphs, partnering with engineers, scientists, PMs, and governance teams.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in AI/ML, 3+ years of people leadership, and a track record of building scalable AI systems on cloud platforms. This remote-eligible role offers global teams and competitive compensation.

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