Senior AI Foundations Engineer: LLMs & Agentic AI

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer 4 to lead development of AI software and foundation models in the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team. You will design and deploy AI components, optimize performance, and collaborate with engineers, researchers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered banking experiences.

The role requires strong programming skills and a track record of building scalable AI systems, with responsibilities spanning model training, inference, governance, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with relevant AI/ML experience
• 4+ years of AI/ML algorithm development
• 4+ years of Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java programming

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products
• Design, develop, test, deploy AI software components
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI tools like AWS Ultraclusters and PyTorch
• Optimize foundation model performance, latency, and cost
• Define and maintain architecture and observability for AI systems
• Mentor senior engineers on scalable design and production readiness

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Education

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

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

Tools

AWS

Huggingface

PyTorch

VectorDBs

Job description

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer 4 to lead development of AI software and foundation models in the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team. You will design and deploy AI components, optimize performance, and collaborate with engineers, researchers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered banking experiences.

The role requires strong programming skills and a track record of building scalable AI systems, with responsibilities spanning model training, inference, governance, and