Senior AI Engineer: Foundations & Large-Scale Systems

Capital One; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer 4 in San Jose to design, develop, deploy, and supervise AI software systems. You’ll collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs and data scientists to build production-ready AI capabilities that power customer and enterprise experiences.

You will lead end-to-end model training, inference, governance, and observability, while optimizing performance and cost. This role demands strong technical depth and scalable distributed-system thinking.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/AI/EE/CE with required work experience.
• 4+ years implementing AI/ML algorithms or technologies.
• Proficient in 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.
• Optimize model performance, scalability, latency, and observability.
• Define and maintain SLOs for AI reliability, including latency and uptime.
• Mentor associates on scalable design and production translation.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

LLM Inference

Foundational AI

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 an AI Engineer 4 in San Jose to design, develop, deploy, and supervise AI software systems. You’ll collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs and data scientists to build production-ready AI capabilities that power customer and enterprise experiences.

You will lead end-to-end model training, inference, governance, and observability, while optimizing performance and cost. This role demands strong technical depth and scalable distributed-system thinking.