Senior AI Engineering Leader (Hybrid)

Capital One Group; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Senior Manager, AI Engineer to lead foundational AI systems and steer technology strategy. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy AI-powered products that transform how associates work and how customers interact with Capital One.

The role emphasizes mentoring engineers, driving roadmaps, ensuring governance and observability, and balancing research with production delivery within Capital One's innovative AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields with 4+ years of AI/ML experience.
• At least 1 year of people leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team to deliver AI-powered products that change how associates work and customers interact with Capital One.
• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment, and support of AI software components including model training and inference, evaluation, governance, and observability.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions across a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies.
• Invent and introduce optimization techniques to improve performance, cost, and latency of large-scale production AI systems.
• Contribute to the long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One.
• Mentor and develop team members to foster learning and growth.
• Translate enterprise AI goals into actionable roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
• Operationalize Responsible AI with gates, documentation, and rollout/rollback standards.
• Collaborate with Research, Data, and Platform teams to accelerate model lifecycle.

Skills

People leadership

AI/ML fundamentals

Collaboration

Education

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

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

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Python

C++

LLM Inference

Job description

Capital One in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Senior Manager, AI Engineer to lead foundational AI systems and steer technology strategy. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy AI-powered products that transform how associates work and how customers interact with Capital One.

The role emphasizes mentoring engineers, driving roadmaps, ensuring governance and observability, and balancing research with production delivery within Capital One's innovative AI initiatives.