Director of AI Engineering - Remote, Scalable AI Systems

Capital One; Montpelier (VT); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Director of AI Engineer to lead AI systems development and governance. You will oversee foundation model work, model optimization, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable AI-powered banking solutions.

You will shape the technical vision, mentor teams, and drive responsible AI practices across multiple product areas while partnering with security and compliance functions.

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.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment and support of AI software components.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions across OSS and SaaS AI tech.
• Invent foundation model optimization techniques for performance and cost.
• Contribute to technical vision and long-term AI platform roadmap.
• Attract and retain AI engineering talent and foster team development.
• Translate enterprise AI strategy into portfolio execution plans.
• Scale AI engineering practices through infrastructure and governance.

Skills

AI systems

LLM inference

Model optimization

Observability

Governance

Python

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related fields

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

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

HuggingFace

VectorDBs

PyTorch

CUDA

Golang

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Director of AI Engineer to lead AI systems development and governance. You will oversee foundation model work, model optimization, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable AI-powered banking solutions.

You will shape the technical vision, mentor teams, and drive responsible AI practices across multiple product areas while partnering with security and compliance functions.