Director of AI Engineering — Remote

Capital One; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Director, AI Engineer to lead scalable AI systems across enterprise products. This role is remote eligible and focuses on responsible AI, governance, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing AI innovations.

You will mentor engineers, set technical vision, and drive platform strategies while balancing performance, cost, and compliance. The team values transparency, learning, and strong communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field plus required experience.
• At least 3 years of people leadership experience.
• Experience deploying scalable AI on cloud platforms.
• Strong fundamentals in engineering and mathematics.
• Ability to articulate complex AI concepts to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment of AI components.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions across OSS and SaaS AI tech.
• Innovate foundation model optimization for performance and cost.
• Contribute to the AI system roadmap and tooling strategy.
• Mentor engineers and nurture team development.
• Translate enterprise AI strategy into execution plans.
• Scale AI practices with shared infrastructure and governance.
• Establish Responsible AI standards and governance frameworks.
• Collaborate with research, compliance and risk teams.

Skills

AI/ML systems

Leadership

Cloud platforms

LLM tooling

Programming languages

Contextual reasoning

Education

Bachelor's in CS/AI/EE

Master's in CS/AI/EE

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

HuggingFace

PyTorch

VectorDBs

Guardrails

Job description

Capital One seeks a Director, AI Engineer to lead scalable AI systems across enterprise products. This role is remote eligible and focuses on responsible AI, governance, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing AI innovations.

You will mentor engineers, set technical vision, and drive platform strategies while balancing performance, cost, and compliance. The team values transparency, learning, and strong communication.