Senior AI Engineering Leader — Scalable, Responsible ML

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

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Sr. Manager, AI Engineer to lead cross-functional teams building responsible and scalable AI systems.

You will oversee foundation model training, inference, governance, and observability, guiding engineers, researchers, PMs, and product partners to deliver AI-powered products for customers and associates. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of AI/ML leadership, experience with AWS, HuggingFace, VectorDBs, PyTorch, and strong communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE with relevant experience.
• At least 1 year of people leadership experience.
• Experience deploying AI solutions on cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI-powered products with cross-functional teams.
• Oversee design, training, testing, deployment, and observability of AI components.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions across Open Source and SaaS AI tech.
• Invent and apply foundation model optimization techniques for performance and cost.
• Contribute to long-term AI system roadmaps and vision.

Skills

LLM Inference

VectorDBs

Guardrails

MLOps

Leadership

Python

C++

Cloud Platforms

Education

Bachelor's in CS/EE/CE

Master's in CS/AI/EE/CE

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Sr. Manager, AI Engineer to lead cross-functional teams building responsible and scalable AI systems.

You will oversee foundation model training, inference, governance, and observability, guiding engineers, researchers, PMs, and product partners to deliver AI-powered products for customers and associates. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of AI/ML leadership, experience with AWS, HuggingFace, VectorDBs, PyTorch, and strong communication.