Senior AI Systems Engineer – Scale, Guardrails & LLMs

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is hiring for a distinguished AI engineer to advance AI foundations and experiences. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs to build production-grade AI systems and platforms used by millions of customers and associates.

The role emphasizes scalable, responsible AI, with hands-on work across training, inference, and governance. The candidate will contribute to the long-term AI system roadmap, mentor teams, and drive optimization across hardware and software for cost and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years in AI/ML development.
• Master's degree with 6+ years in AI/ML development.
• 8+ years of Python/Go/Scala/Java programming.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI tech like HuggingFace, VectorDBs, PyTorch.
• Invent state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques for performance.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term AI system roadmap.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE

Master's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

VectorDBs

Huggingface

Nemo Guardrails

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is hiring for a distinguished AI engineer to advance AI foundations and experiences. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs to build production-grade AI systems and platforms used by millions of customers and associates.

The role emphasizes scalable, responsible AI, with hands-on work across training, inference, and governance. The candidate will contribute to the long-term AI system roadmap, mentor teams, and drive optimization across hardware and software for cost and