Senior AI Foundations Engineer — World Models & RL

Capital One Group; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer to build and scale AI foundations, training models, and production pipelines. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, and product teams to deliver AI-powered financial services experiences.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, model governance, and scalable inference, with hybrid on-site requirements in designated offices. Applicants should have strong software and ML expertise and a passion for cutting-edge research.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI/EE with required AI/ML experience.
• 4+ years AI/ML development; 2+ years with Master's.
• 4+ years programming in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI-powered products with cross-functional teams.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components.
• Define and maintain SLOs for AI reliability and observability.
• Mentor associates on scalable design and production translation.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer to build and scale AI foundations, training models, and production pipelines. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, and product teams to deliver AI-powered financial services experiences.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, model governance, and scalable inference, with hybrid on-site requirements in designated offices. Applicants should have strong software and ML expertise and a passion for cutting-edge research.