Remote Senior Director, AI Engineering — Lead Scalable AI

Capital One; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One's Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team builds AI-powered solutions that impact millions of customers. The role leads a multi-disciplinary team to design, deploy, and govern AI systems, including foundation model work, LLM inference, and observability.

You will drive enterprise AI strategy, mentor leaders, and shape a multi-year roadmap for scalable, compliant AI across the bank, partnering with risk, data, and product teams to align technical and ethical principles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI/EE/CE with 8–10+ years of AI/ML experience or similar.
• At least 5 years of people leadership experience.
• Experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• 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 to improve performance, cost, latency and throughput.

Skills

People leadership

AI systems

Cross-functional teamwork

Model optimization

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's Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team builds AI-powered solutions that impact millions of customers. The role leads a multi-disciplinary team to design, deploy, and govern AI systems, including foundation model work, LLM inference, and observability.

You will drive enterprise AI strategy, mentor leaders, and shape a multi-year roadmap for scalable, compliant AI across the bank, partnering with risk, data, and product teams to align technical and ethical principles.