Senior AI Engineer: Scalable Foundation Models

Capital One National Association; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 251,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in San Jose, CA is hiring an AI Engineer 5 to design and deploy advanced AI systems that power real-time customer experiences. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs, and product teams to build scalable AI components, from foundation model training to inference, using PyTorch, Hugging Face, and vector databases.

You will optimize performance, cost, and latency, contribute to the roadmap, and mentor other AI engineers while upholding responsible AI standards in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/AI/EE/CE with relevant AI/ML experience.
• At least 6 years programming 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.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI tech (AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch).
• Invent optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, and cost.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long‑term roadmap of AI systems.
• Design, implement and optimize multi‑model orchestration pipelines.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Capital One in San Jose, CA is hiring an AI Engineer 5 to design and deploy advanced AI systems that power real-time customer experiences. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs, and product teams to build scalable AI components, from foundation model training to inference, using PyTorch, Hugging Face, and vector databases.

You will optimize performance, cost, and latency, contribute to the roadmap, and mentor other AI engineers while upholding responsible AI standards in a fast-paced