Director, Responsible AI & Scalable ML Systems

Capital One; New York (NY); Remote; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sponsorship eligible

Performance incentives

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Director, AI Engineer to lead AI foundations and experiences on the IFX team, building responsible, scalable AI systems at scale. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs and product managers to deliver AI-powered products, oversee foundation model training and inference, and drive architectural decisions.

This role emphasizes hiring and mentoring, maintaining governance and fairness standards, and translating strategy into executable plans with a focus on compliant,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
• At least 3 years of people leadership experience

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
• Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability, etc.
• Make high judgment build-vs-buy decisions across a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, and more.
• Invent and introduce state-of-the-art foundation model optimization techniques to improve the performance — scalability, cost, latency, throughput — of large scale production AI systems.
• Contribute to the technical vision and the long term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One.
• Attract and retain top talent in the AI industry and nurture personal and professional development for your team. Foster a culture of learning and staying abreast of the state-of-the-art in AI.
• Translate the enterprise AI strategy into portfolio-level execution plans across multiple product areas, balancing innovation with delivery discipline
• Scale AI engineering practices across teams through shared infrastructure, reusable components, and unified observability and governance frameworks
• Establish enterprise standard for Responsible AI, including fairness metrics, model evaluation protocols, documentation requirements, and audit readiness
• Partner with research, compliance, and enterprise risk teams to ensure deployed systems meet emerging ethical and regulatory standards

Skills

AI leadership

Cloud deployment

AI algorithms

Agentic AI

Research awareness

Communication

Multi-team leadership

AI platform strategy

Cross-functional governance

Resource sizing

Education

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

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

Tools

Python

C++

C#

Java

CUDA

Golang

Job description

Capital One seeks a Director, AI Engineer to lead AI foundations and experiences on the IFX team, building responsible, scalable AI systems at scale. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs and product managers to deliver AI-powered products, oversee foundation model training and inference, and drive architectural decisions.

This role emphasizes hiring and mentoring, maintaining governance and fairness standards, and translating strategy into executable plans with a focus on compliant,