Senior AI Platform Architect & Leader

Capital One National Association; New York (NY); On-site; USD 343,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff AI Engineer in New York, NY to lead foundation model work and production AI systems. You will design and deploy AI software components, mentor teams, and shape enterprise AI architecture and governance.

Join a cross-functional team and work with Open Source/SaaS tools like AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and PyTorch to optimize performance, cost, latency, and scalability while upholding safety and transparency standards across the company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 10 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
• Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, agents and multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability, etc.
• 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 the performance - scalability, cost, latency, throughput - of large scale production AI systems.
• 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 applied research breakthroughs into production ecosystems with reliability and scale
• Lead the establishment of AI performance, safety, and transparency standards that guide all model development and deployment company-wide
• Drive multi-year platform initiatives that unify data, compute and model lifecycle management under and cohesive enterprise AI architecture
• Mentor senior technical leaders across research, data and engineering disciplines, developing the next generation of Capital One's AI technical leadership

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Education

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

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

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff AI Engineer in New York, NY to lead foundation model work and production AI systems. You will design and deploy AI software components, mentor teams, and shape enterprise AI architecture and governance.

Join a cross-functional team and work with Open Source/SaaS tools like AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and PyTorch to optimize performance, cost, latency, and scalability while upholding safety and transparency standards across the company.