Senior AI Systems Engineer — Remote

Capital One Group; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to help build responsible, scalable AI systems for banking in a remote-eligible capacity. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs, and product leads to deliver AI-powered products, foundation model work, and governance.

You will work with Open Source and SaaS AI tools, optimize performance and cost, and contribute to enterprise AI architecture standards while championing responsible AI across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI/EE/CE or related field with strong AI/ML background.
• At least 8 years of experience in AI/ML algorithm development or related technologies.
• Experience programming in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java (minimum 8 years).
• Experience deploying scalable AI solutions on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Ability to lead and mentor teams and influence stakeholders up to VP level.
• Strong communication and ability to translate complex AI concepts to non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products and improve customer experiences.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training and inference.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI tools (AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch).
• Optimize foundation model performance (cost, latency, throughput) for production systems.
• Contribute to technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.
• Set enterprise-wide AI architecture direction, tooling, observability, and deployment standards.
• Own design/integration of model routing, caching, and orchestration for multi-model workloads.
• Champion responsible AI principles and governance across systems.
• Drive internal education, mentorship, and dissemination of best practices.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/AI/EE/CE or related field

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to help build responsible, scalable AI systems for banking in a remote-eligible capacity. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs, and product leads to deliver AI-powered products, foundation model work, and governance.

You will work with Open Source and SaaS AI tools, optimize performance and cost, and contribute to enterprise AI architecture standards while championing responsible AI across teams.