Director of AI Engineering, Remote Leader

Capital One; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Director, AI Engineer to lead the development of responsible and scalable AI systems. The role focuses on building AI-powered products, overseeing foundation model work, and driving governance across enterprise AI initiatives.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in AI/ML, cloud platforms, and team leadership, with a track record of delivering scalable AI solutions for a large organization. Remote eligibility and national scope are offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE with 8+ years AI/ML experience
• Master's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE with 6+ years AI/ML experience
• At least 3 years of people leadership experience

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 Open Source and SaaS AI tech
• Invent foundation model optimization to improve performance
• Contribute to technical vision and long-term AI roadmap
• Attract and retain top AI engineering talent
• Translate AI strategy into portfolio-level execution plans
• Scale AI engineering practices with shared infrastructure
• Establish enterprise standard for Responsible AI
• Collaborate with research, compliance and risk teams

Skills

Python

C++

C#

Java

CUDA

Golang

LLM Inference

Similarity Search

VectorDBs

Guardrails

Memory

Leadership

System Design

Education

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

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

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Director, AI Engineer to lead the development of responsible and scalable AI systems. The role focuses on building AI-powered products, overseeing foundation model work, and driving governance across enterprise AI initiatives.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in AI/ML, cloud platforms, and team leadership, with a track record of delivering scalable AI solutions for a large organization. Remote eligibility and national scope are offered.