Senior AI Platform Lead (Gen AI, Guardrails & Scale)

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Manager, AI Engineer to lead Gen AI Platform Services: Agentic AI, Guardrails, Evaluation in San Francisco. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs to deliver AI-powered products and scalable production systems.

The role demands deep technical expertise, people leadership, and a track record building responsible AI at scale, with focus on model optimization, governance, and collaboration across Research, Data and Platform teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with 6+ years AI/ML experience, or Master's with 4+ years.
• At least 1 year of people leadership experience.
• Experience leading an engineering team and deploying scalable AI on cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment, and support of AI software components.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions across Open Source and SaaS AI technologies.

Skills

People leadership

AI systems engineering

Cloud platforms

Communication

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

HuggingFace

PyTorch

VectorDBs

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Manager, AI Engineer to lead Gen AI Platform Services: Agentic AI, Guardrails, Evaluation in San Francisco. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs to deliver AI-powered products and scalable production systems.

The role demands deep technical expertise, people leadership, and a track record building responsible AI at scale, with focus on model optimization, governance, and collaboration across Research, Data and Platform teams.