Senior AI Foundations Engineer

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 251,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer 5 in New York to help design and deploy production-grade AI systems. You will partner with engineers, scientists, PMs, and others to build foundation model workflows, vector search, and multi-model orchestration.

The role emphasizes responsible, scalable AI with cost-aware optimization. You will contribute to technical vision, mentor engineers, and participate in governance of AI workloads across platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree with relevant AI/ML experience.
• 6+ years (or 4+ years with Master's) in AI/ML algorithm development.
• Strong Python/Java/CUDA programming experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy and support AI software components.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI tech like PyTorch, HuggingFace, VectorDBs.
• Innovate model optimization to improve performance, cost and latency.
• Contribute to long-term AI system roadmaps at Capital One.
• Lead multi-model orchestration pipelines and governance reviews.
• Mentor senior engineers and elevate technical maturity.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Golang

Cloud platforms

ML/AI systems

Education

Bachelor's in CS/AI/EE or related (>=6 yrs)

Master's in CS/AI/EE or related (>=4 yrs)

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

HuggingFace

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer 5 in New York to help design and deploy production-grade AI systems. You will partner with engineers, scientists, PMs, and others to build foundation model workflows, vector search, and multi-model orchestration.

The role emphasizes responsible, scalable AI with cost-aware optimization. You will contribute to technical vision, mentor engineers, and participate in governance of AI workloads across platforms.