Senior AI Engineer: Scalable, Responsible ML for Banking

Capital One; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 343,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to help build responsible and reliable AI systems for real-time customer experiences. You will work on foundation model training, large language model inference, and vector databases while integrating guardrails and governance across production pipelines.

The role emphasizes collaboration across engineering, research, and product teams, with opportunities to shape a strategic AI roadmap and contribute to enterprise-scale AI platforms in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with 10+ years of AI/ML experience or Master’s with 8+ years of AI/ML experience
• 10+ years of programming in Python, Go, Scala, or Java

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products
• Design, develop, test, deploy and support AI software components (LLM inference, guardrails, model evaluation)
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI technologies to optimize performance, latency, and cost
• Invent and apply state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques for production systems
• Contribute to the long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Scala

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields

Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

Nemo Guardrails

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to help build responsible and reliable AI systems for real-time customer experiences. You will work on foundation model training, large language model inference, and vector databases while integrating guardrails and governance across production pipelines.

The role emphasizes collaboration across engineering, research, and product teams, with opportunities to shape a strategic AI roadmap and contribute to enterprise-scale AI platforms in a