Remote Director of AI Engineering — Scale Responsible AI

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a senior AI engineering leader to drive the design, deployment, and optimization of large-scale AI systems. You will oversee foundation model work, governance, and observability while guiding teams across AI research, engineering, and product management.

You will mentor engineers, lead by example, and align AI initiatives with enterprise strategy within a remote-friendly, high-impact environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field plus several years of AI/ML experience.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience.
• Experience deploying scalable AI solutions on cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products and experiences.
• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment, and support of AI software components.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions across Open Source and SaaS AI technologies.
• Invent optimization techniques for foundation models to improve performance and cost.
• Contribute to long-term AI systems roadmap at Capital One.
• Foster talent development and nurture team growth.
• Translate enterprise AI strategy into portfolio execution plans.
• Scale AI engineering practices across teams with shared infrastructure.

Skills

Leadership

AI/ML

Engineering

Cloud platforms

Python

C++

Java

Golang

Research

Education

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

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

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Guardrails

LLM Inference

Memory

Job description

Capital One is seeking a senior AI engineering leader to drive the design, deployment, and optimization of large-scale AI systems. You will oversee foundation model work, governance, and observability while guiding teams across AI research, engineering, and product management.

You will mentor engineers, lead by example, and align AI initiatives with enterprise strategy within a remote-friendly, high-impact environment.