Director of AI Engineering - Scalable & Responsible AI

Capital One; United States; Remote; USD 269,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One's Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team builds world-class AI systems that power real-time banking experiences. The Director AI Engineer will lead cross-functional teams, shape the technical vision, and steer production AI across foundation models, inference, and governance.

You will mentor engineers, drive design, testing, deployment, observability, and collaboration with research, compliance and risk to ensure responsible AI that meets regulatory standards across

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment and support of AI software components including foundation models and inference.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions across OSS and SaaS AI technologies.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap for foundational AI systems.

Skills

Leadership

People leadership

Cloud deployment

LLM inference

Python

PyTorch

C++

CUDA

VectorDBs

HuggingFace

Education

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

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

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Python

C++

PyTorch

VectorDBs

Job description

Capital One's Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team builds world-class AI systems that power real-time banking experiences. The Director AI Engineer will lead cross-functional teams, shape the technical vision, and steer production AI across foundation models, inference, and governance.

You will mentor engineers, drive design, testing, deployment, observability, and collaboration with research, compliance and risk to ensure responsible AI that meets regulatory standards across