Senior AI Lead — Scalable ML & LLM Systems

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

Job summary

Capital One is building responsible AI systems to transform banking. The Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team partners across the company to advance AI engineering, delivering proprietary solutions that scale to millions of customers.

You will work with engineers, scientists, and product managers on foundation model training, inference, guardrails, evaluation, and governance. You will design, implement, and optimize AI software components, leveraging PyTorch, vector databases, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with AI/ML experience required.
• 6+ years coding in Python/Go/Scala/Java.
• Experience deploying scalable AI systems on cloud platforms.

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 technologies.
• Invent state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques for performance.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of AI systems.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

Java

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/AI/EE/CE or related

Master’s degree in CS/AI/EE/CE or related

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

Nemo Guardrails

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is building responsible AI systems to transform banking. The Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team partners across the company to advance AI engineering, delivering proprietary solutions that scale to millions of customers.

You will work with engineers, scientists, and product managers on foundation model training, inference, guardrails, evaluation, and governance. You will design, implement, and optimize AI software components, leveraging PyTorch, vector databases, and