Remote Senior AI Engineer: Foundation Models & Infra

Capital One; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff AI Engineer to design and deploy production AI systems at scale. You will work with cross-functional teams to advance model training, inference, and governance while leveraging Open Source and SaaS AI technologies.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, performance optimization, and enterprise-wide standards. Remote eligibility enables collaboration across locations with strong leadership opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE with 10+ years in AI/ML.
• Master's degree with 8+ years in AI/ML preferred.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java is required.
• Experience architecting AI platforms balancing cost, latency, and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs, and designers to deliver AI products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components and workflows.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI tech (e.g., PyTorch, Huggingface, VectorDBs).
• Improve foundation model performance, scalability, and cost.
• Shape long-term AI infrastructure roadmaps and architecture vision.
• Lead AI safety, governance, and transparency standards.
• Drive multi-year platform initiatives unifying data, compute, and lifecycle mgmt.
• Mentor senior technical leaders across research, data, and engineering.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Leadership

Communication

Education

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

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

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff AI Engineer to design and deploy production AI systems at scale. You will work with cross-functional teams to advance model training, inference, and governance while leveraging Open Source and SaaS AI technologies.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, performance optimization, and enterprise-wide standards. Remote eligibility enables collaboration across locations with strong leadership opportunities.