Lead Gen AI Platform Engineer – Production AI Systems

Capital One; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 251,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer 5 for Gen AI Platform Services – Agentic Systems to design, build and scale responsible AI systems for banking applications.

You will collaborate with engineers, researchers and product managers to deploy foundation models, vector search, and multi-agent workflows, while optimizing performance and cost. This role targets advanced AI capabilities and responsible deployment at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of AI/ML algorithm development or related tech.
• 6+ years Python/Go/Scala/CUDA/Java programming.
• Strong foundation in math and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI-powered products with cross-functional teams.
• Design, develop, test, deploy AI software components.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI tech such as AWS, Huggingface, PyTorch.
• Optimize foundation model performance, latency, and cost.
• Contribute to long-term AI foundations roadmap.
• Lead multi-model orchestration pipelines.
• Governance reviews for GPU utilization and inference cost.
• Mentor engineers and uplift technical maturity.

Skills

Python/Go/Scala/CUDA/Java

Math foundation

Communication

Education

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

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

Tools

AWS

Huggingface

PyTorch

VectorDBs

Job description

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer 5 for Gen AI Platform Services – Agentic Systems to design, build and scale responsible AI systems for banking applications.

You will collaborate with engineers, researchers and product managers to deploy foundation models, vector search, and multi-agent workflows, while optimizing performance and cost. This role targets advanced AI capabilities and responsible deployment at scale.