Senior AI Platform Lead: Scalable, Safe & Remote

Capital One National Association; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 343,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One’s Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team drives AI at scale, partnering with engineers, researchers, and product teams to build responsible AI systems. You will design and deploy AI software components, including foundation model training, inference, and governance, across a broad tech stack.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and shaping the long-term AI architecture while maintaining safety standards and governance across the enterprise. Remote work is available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field with substantial AI/ML experience.
• At least 10 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master’s degree with 8+ years of experience.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one of Go, Scala, Java, or CUDA.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, TPMs, and PMs to deliver AI-powered products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, agents and multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, and more.
• Invent and introduce state-of-the-art foundation model optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, throughput.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One.
• Define and steer the technical AI architecture vision, integrating breakthroughs into production ecosystems with reliability and scale.
• Lead the establishment of AI performance, safety, and transparency standards company-wide.
• Drive multi-year platform initiatives that unify data, compute and model lifecycle management under cohesive enterprise AI architecture.
• Mentor senior technical leaders across research, data and engineering, developing Capital One’s AI leadership.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Leadership

Communication

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

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Open Source

Job description

Capital One’s Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team drives AI at scale, partnering with engineers, researchers, and product teams to build responsible AI systems. You will design and deploy AI software components, including foundation model training, inference, and governance, across a broad tech stack.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and shaping the long-term AI architecture while maintaining safety standards and governance across the enterprise. Remote work is available.