Senior AI Engineer: Scalable ML & Foundation Models

Capital One National Association; New York (NY); On-site; USD 215,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks an AI Engineer 4 in New York, NY to design and deploy AI-powered products. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs to advance AI platforms and governance.

The role emphasizes foundation model optimization, end-to-end architecture, SLOs, and responsible AI, with a focus on performance, scalability, and ethical alignment.Eligible for sponsorship; salary ranges by location are provided.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI/EE/CE or related field with relevant AI/ML experience
• At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, PMs to deliver AI-powered products
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including model training and inference
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, PyTorch, and VectorDBs
• Invent and introduce foundation model optimization techniques to improve performance, latency, throughput and cost
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One
• Own end-to-end architecture for complex AI systems with maintainability, observability and ethical alignment
• Define and maintain service-level objectives (SLOs) for AI reliability including latency and uptime
• Collaborate with infrastructure to optimize GPU/TPU utilization and accelerate model inference
• Lead cross-functional technical reviews for new AI deployments ensuring security and governance
• Mentor Principal and Senior Associates on scalable design and production translation

Skills

Python

ML algorithms

Distributed systems

Mathematics foundation

Education

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

Master's in CS/AI/EE/CE or related

Tools

AWS

HuggingFace

PyTorch

VectorDBs

CUDA

Go

C++/Java

Job description

Capital One seeks an AI Engineer 4 in New York, NY to design and deploy AI-powered products. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs to advance AI platforms and governance.

The role emphasizes foundation model optimization, end-to-end architecture, SLOs, and responsible AI, with a focus on performance, scalability, and ethical alignment.Eligible for sponsorship; salary ranges by location are provided.