Senior AI Platform Engineer: Foundation Models & Scale

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Performance-based incentives

Cash bonuses

Long-term incentives (LTI)

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff AI Engineer within the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team in New York, NY. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products and scale AI infrastructure across the enterprise.

You will design and deploy AI software components, optimize foundation models, and help shape the long-term roadmap for production AI systems while ensuring reliability and governance across Capital One's platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree with 8+ years (Bachelor) or 6+ years (Master) in AI/ML.
• At least 10 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java
• Experience architecting AI platforms with cost, latency, throughput tradeoffs

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training and inference.
• Leverage OSS and SaaS AI technologies like AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch.
• Invent foundation model optimization techniques for performance, cost, latency, and throughput.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.
• Define and steer the AI architecture vision for scalable production ecosystems.
• Lead AI performance, safety, and transparency standards across model development.
• 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

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / AI / Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering or related fields

Master's Degree in Computer Science / AI / Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering or related fields

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff AI Engineer within the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team in New York, NY. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products and scale AI infrastructure across the enterprise.

You will design and deploy AI software components, optimize foundation models, and help shape the long-term roadmap for production AI systems while ensuring reliability and governance across Capital One's platforms.