Senior AI Platform Engineer (Foundation Models)

Capital One; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 343,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Sr. Staff AI Engineer to help build responsible and scalable AI systems across the enterprise.

You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs, and other stakeholders to deliver AI-powered products that enhance how associates work and how customers interact with Capital One. You will design and deploy AI software components, optimize foundation models, and contribute to a long-term AI architecture roadmap while mentoring technical leaders and ensuring safety and governance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/AI/EE with required years of experience as specified.
• Experience programming in Python/Go/Scala/CUDA/Java with 8–10+ years total.

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 model training, inference, and governance.
• Leverage a broad stack of AI technologies including AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and PyTorch.
• Invent and implement foundation model optimization techniques to improve performance, latency, and cost.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One.
• Define and steer the AI architecture vision, integrating breakthroughs into production ecosystems with reliability and scale.
• Lead establishment of AI safety, 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 domains.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Cloud platforms

LLM inference

VectorDBs

Guardrails

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/EE

Master's degree in CS/AI/EE

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

PyTorch

VectorDBs

Job description

Capital One seeks a Sr. Staff AI Engineer to help build responsible and scalable AI systems across the enterprise.

You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs, and other stakeholders to deliver AI-powered products that enhance how associates work and how customers interact with Capital One. You will design and deploy AI software components, optimize foundation models, and contribute to a long-term AI architecture roadmap while mentoring technical leaders and ensuring safety and governance