Director of AI Engineering — Remote & Scalable AI Systems

Capital One Group; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Director, AI Engineer to lead AI-powered product development. You will guide cross-functional teams through design, training, inference, and observability of foundation models, while optimizing for performance, cost and latency.

You will shape the enterprise AI roadmap and mentor engineers to grow strong, responsible AI capabilities. The role emphasizes building scalable, high‑impact AI infrastructure, collaborating with compliance and risk, and ensuring responsible AI

Qualifications

• Strong leadership experience directing multi-disciplinary AI teams.
• Proven track record deploying scalable AI/ML solutions.
• Hands-on with modern AI tooling and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment and support of AI software components.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions across Open Source and SaaS AI technologies.
• Contribute to the long-term AI platform roadmap and governance.

Skills

People leadership

AI/ML algorithms

Python

C++

Java

CUDA

Golang

LLM Inference

VectorDBs

Guardrails

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/AI/EE/CE

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Director, AI Engineer to lead AI-powered product development. You will guide cross-functional teams through design, training, inference, and observability of foundation models, while optimizing for performance, cost and latency.

You will shape the enterprise AI roadmap and mentor engineers to grow strong, responsible AI capabilities. The role emphasizes building scalable, high‑impact AI infrastructure, collaborating with compliance and risk, and ensuring responsible AI