Senior AI Platform Engineer: Gen AI & Guardrails

Capital One; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 251,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer 5 to join the Gen AI Platform Services team in San Francisco. You will design and deploy AI software, including foundation model training, inference, agents, and guardrails, while collaborating with engineers, researchers, and PMs.

You will optimize large-scale AI systems for performance and cost, contribute to the roadmap, and mentor senior engineers to raise technical maturity across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or master’s in a relevant field with several years of AI/ML experience.
• Experience with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java in production AI systems.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML algorithms, systems, and cloud-based deployments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including training, inference, agents, guardrails, and governance.
• Lead multi-model orchestration and cost-performance reviews across AI systems.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/AI/EE/CE)

Master's degree (CS/AI/EE/CE)

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer 5 to join the Gen AI Platform Services team in San Francisco. You will design and deploy AI software, including foundation model training, inference, agents, and guardrails, while collaborating with engineers, researchers, and PMs.

You will optimize large-scale AI systems for performance and cost, contribute to the roadmap, and mentor senior engineers to raise technical maturity across teams.