Director of AI Engineering — Remote & Strategic Leader

Capital One; Columbia (SC); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Director, AI Engineer to lead the AI organization and drive responsible, scalable AI across the bank. The role oversees foundation model work, model optimization, governance, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-impact AI-powered customer experiences.

You will mentor teams, shape enterprise AI strategy, and ensure state-of-the-art AI capabilities align with regulatory standards and business goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/AI/EE/CE plus 8+ years of AI/ML experience.
• At least 3 years of people leadership experience.
• Experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment, and support AI software components.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions across Open Source and SaaS AI technologies.
• Invent optimization techniques to improve performance, cost, latency, and throughput of large-scale AI systems.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term AI roadmap.
• Attract and retain top AI talent and foster development.

Skills

AI engineering

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Python

LLM Inference

VectorDBs

Guardrails

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/AI/EE/CE

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

CUDA

Job description

Capital One seeks a Director, AI Engineer to lead the AI organization and drive responsible, scalable AI across the bank. The role oversees foundation model work, model optimization, governance, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-impact AI-powered customer experiences.

You will mentor teams, shape enterprise AI strategy, and ensure state-of-the-art AI capabilities align with regulatory standards and business goals.