Senior AI Foundations Engineer for Scalable Production AI

Capital One; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 251,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer 5 in San Francisco to design, deploy, and optimize AI software components, including LLM inference, vector searches, and multi-model orchestration. You will collaborate across engineers, researchers, PMs, and partners to deliver scalable AI-powered banking experiences.

The role requires strong Python and systems engineering background, experience with large-scale AI workloads, and the ability to optimize performance and cost while maintaining governance and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with significant AI/ML algorithm development experience
• Experience building AI systems with production-grade reliability and performance
• Strong programming skills in Python and at least one of Go/Scala/CUDA/Java

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products
• Design, develop, test, deploy and support AI software components
• Lead multi-model orchestration pipelines and governance reviews
• Mentor engineers and drive technical maturity across the team

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/AI/Engineering

Master's degree in Computer Science/AI/Engineering

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer 5 in San Francisco to design, deploy, and optimize AI software components, including LLM inference, vector searches, and multi-model orchestration. You will collaborate across engineers, researchers, PMs, and partners to deliver scalable AI-powered banking experiences.

The role requires strong Python and systems engineering background, experience with large-scale AI workloads, and the ability to optimize performance and cost while maintaining governance and