Director of AI Engineering (Remote)

Capital One

Jackson (MS)

Remote

USD 168,000 - 279,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Capital One seeks a Director, AI Engineer to lead AI platforms and responsible AI initiatives in a remote-eligible setting. You will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable AI products across banking domains, guiding architecture and governance.

You will mentor engineers, drive long-term AI roadmaps, ensure compliance with ethical standards, and manage performance incentives while collaborating with risk/compliance to meet regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 8+ years of AI/ML experience, or Master's plus 6+ years.
At least 3 years of people leadership experience.

Responsibilities

Oversee design, development, testing, deployment and support of AI software components (foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, governance).
Make build-vs-buy decisions across Open Source and SaaS AI technologies (AWS Ultraclusters, HuggingFace, VectorDBs, PyTorch, etc.).
Lead state-of-the-art foundation model optimization for performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.
Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.