Senior AI Platform Architect

Capital One National Association; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sponsorship for employment eligibility

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff AI Engineer to lead Foundation AI systems. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs, and product teams to deliver AI-powered products impacting millions of customers.

Responsibilities include training and inference of foundation models, optimization for cost and latency, and governance across production systems. The role emphasizes mentorship and architectural leadership across Capital One.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in CS/AI/EE/CE or related field with 8–10+ years of AI/ML experience.
• At least 10 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team to deliver AI-powered products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy and support AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, agents and workflows.
• Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, and more.
• Invent and introduce state-of-the-art foundation model optimization techniques to improve performance, cost, latency, and throughput.
• Contribute to the technical vision and the long term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One.
• Define and steer the technical AI architecture vision, integrating breakthroughs into production ecosystems with reliability and scale.
• Lead the establishment of AI performance, safety, and transparency standards across model development and deployment.
• Drive multi-year platform initiatives unifying data, compute and model lifecycle management.
• Mentor senior technical leaders across research, data and engineering disciplines.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

Scala

CUDA

C++

C#

Golang

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

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 Ultraclusters

HuggingFace

VectorDBs

PyTorch

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff AI Engineer to lead Foundation AI systems. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs, and product teams to deliver AI-powered products impacting millions of customers.

Responsibilities include training and inference of foundation models, optimization for cost and latency, and governance across production systems. The role emphasizes mentorship and architectural leadership across Capital One.