Remote Staff AI Engineer — LLMs & Scalable AI Infra

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to build responsible, scalable AI systems in a remote-eligible role. You’ll partner with engineers, researchers, and PMs to deliver AI-powered banking experiences, train and deploy models, and improve guardrails and observability across a broad tech stack.

You will contribute to foundational AI systems, optimize training and inference, and mentor teams while keeping ethical and production-ready standards in mind.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering with AI/ML focus.
• 8+ years AI/ML algorithm development or 6+ with Master's.
• Experience with Python/Go/Scala/Java in production.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI tech like AWS, HuggingFace, VectorDBs.
• Innovate LL M optimization techniques for performance and cost.
• Contribute to the long-term technical vision and roadmap.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Python

Go

Scala

Java

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Vector databases

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to build responsible, scalable AI systems in a remote-eligible role. You’ll partner with engineers, researchers, and PMs to deliver AI-powered banking experiences, train and deploy models, and improve guardrails and observability across a broad tech stack.

You will contribute to foundational AI systems, optimize training and inference, and mentor teams while keeping ethical and production-ready standards in mind.