Senior AI Platform Architect & Leader

Capital One

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 343,000 - 392,000

Full time

19 hours ago
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Job summary

Capital One's Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team seeks a Senior Staff AI Engineer to lead and shape production AI systems. You will architect, deploy, and optimize large-scale AI platforms, mentoring teams, and partnering with researchers, engineers and product leads to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, governance, and performance improvements across data, compute and model lifecycles, with compensation reflecting market ranges for San Jose, CA.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree plus 10 years of AI/ML experience or Master's plus 8 years.
  • At least 10 years of programming experience in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
  • Experience architecting AI platforms with tradeoffs on cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy.
  • Experience leading and mentoring multiple engineering teams and influencing stakeholders up to SVP level.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products that change how associates work and how customers interact with Capital One.
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training and inference.
  • Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI technologies (AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch).
  • Invent and introduce foundation model optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.
  • Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One.
  • Define and steer the AI architecture vision for reliable, scalable production ecosystems.
  • Lead the establishment of AI performance, safety, and transparency standards across the company.
  • Drive multi-year platform initiatives unifying data, compute and model lifecycle management.
  • Mentor senior technical leaders across research, data and engineering.

Skills

Python
Go
Scala
CUDA
Java
Leadership
Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/AI/EE/CE or related fields
Master's degree in Computer Science/AI/EE/CE or related fields

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters
Huggingface
VectorDBs
PyTorch

Job description

Capital One's Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team seeks a Senior Staff AI Engineer to lead and shape production AI systems. You will architect, deploy, and optimize large-scale AI platforms, mentoring teams, and partnering with researchers, engineers and product leads to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, governance, and performance improvements across data, compute and model lifecycles, with compensation reflecting market ranges for San Jose, CA.

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