Senior AI Engineering Leader – Foundations & Systems

Capital One National Association; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Manager, AI Engineer to lead foundational AI systems and oversee end-to-end delivery of AI-powered products.

You will guide cross-functional teams and push innovations in model optimization, governance, and observability. Join a culture that champions responsible AI, scaling real-world impact while mentoring engineers and scientists across the AI stack to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions for millions of customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
• At least 1 year of people leadership experience
• Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One
• Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability, etc.
• Make high judgment build-vs-buy decisions across a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, and more
• Invent and introduce state-of-the-art foundation model optimization techniques to improve the performance — scalability, cost, latency, throughput — of large scale production AI systems
• Contribute to the technical vision and the long term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One
• Attract and retain top talent in the AI industry and nurture personal and professional development for your team. Foster a culture of learning and staying abreast of the state-of-the-art in AI
• Translate enterprise AI goals into actionable team roadmaps with measurable outcomes and regular readouts
• Operationalize Responsible AI: establish review gates, documentation/evaluation requirements, and rollout/rollback standards for all production AI systems
• Create strong collaboration interfaces with Research, Data, and Platform teams to accelerate model lifecycle

Skills

People leadership

Mentoring

Strong technical foundation

Analytical mindset

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

B.S. in CS/AI/EE/CE

M.S. in CS/AI/EE/CE

Tools

AWS

HuggingFace

PyTorch

VectorDBs

Guardrails

LLM Inference

Python

C++

Golang

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Manager, AI Engineer to lead foundational AI systems and oversee end-to-end delivery of AI-powered products.

You will guide cross-functional teams and push innovations in model optimization, governance, and observability. Join a culture that champions responsible AI, scaling real-world impact while mentoring engineers and scientists across the AI stack to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions for millions of customers.