Senior AI Engineer: Foundation Models & Scalable AI

Capital One Group; United States; Remote; USD 197,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is hiring an AI Engineer 4 to build responsible AI systems across multiple locations including San Jose, San Francisco, McLean, Cambridge, and New York. You will design, deploy and optimize foundation-model-based AI components, leveraging AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, with a focus on scalable, observable, and governance-aligned solutions.

The role requires strong Python/Go/Scala/CUDA/Java skills, cloud experience, and a passion for applying AI research to production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/AI/EE/CE or related field; 4+ years of AI/ML development.
• Proficient in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA or Java for production AI systems.
• Experience deploying scalable AI services on cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy and support AI software components.
• Lead foundation model training, inference, agents and observability.
• Optimize performance, cost, latency and throughput for AI systems.
• Collaborate across teams to define architecture and governance for AI.
• Mentor engineers on scalable design and production translation.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE or related field

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

HuggingFace

VectorDBs

Job description

Capital One is hiring an AI Engineer 4 to build responsible AI systems across multiple locations including San Jose, San Francisco, McLean, Cambridge, and New York. You will design, deploy and optimize foundation-model-based AI components, leveraging AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, with a focus on scalable, observable, and governance-aligned solutions.

The role requires strong Python/Go/Scala/CUDA/Java skills, cloud experience, and a passion for applying AI research to production.