Remote Staff AI Engineer - AI Systems & Foundations

Capital One; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance incentives

Benefits package

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to help build responsible and scalable AI systems, including foundation model training, LLM inference, and multi-agent workflows. Remote eligible with multiple U.S. locations supported.

You will work with the IFX team to advance AI engineering, drive technical standards, and mentor engineers while delivering high-leverage AI capabilities across the bank.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/Engineering plus 8+ years in AI/ML algorithms or related fields.
• Master's degree in CS/AI/Engineering plus 6+ years in AI/ML algorithms or related fields.
• 8+ years of programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, agents and workflows.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI technologies (AWS Ultraclusters, HuggingFace, VectorDBs, PyTorch).
• Invent optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, latency, throughput and cost.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.
• Set the technical direction for enterprise-wide AI architecture and deployment standards.
• Own design and integration of model routing, caching, orchestration for hybrid workloads.
• Champion responsible AI principles across system design with transparency and fairness.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

ML/AI algorithms

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/AI/Engineering

Master's degree in Computer Science/AI/Engineering

Tools

AWS

HuggingFace

PyTorch

VectorDBs

CUDA

Git

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to help build responsible and scalable AI systems, including foundation model training, LLM inference, and multi-agent workflows. Remote eligible with multiple U.S. locations supported.

You will work with the IFX team to advance AI engineering, drive technical standards, and mentor engineers while delivering high-leverage AI capabilities across the bank.