Senior Director, AI Platform & Foundations (Remote Eligible)

ITSMF

San Jose (CA)

Remote

USD 343,000 - 392,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of AI Engineering to lead the Agentic AI Platform. You will oversee foundation model training, inference, and governance, while driving scalable, responsible AI across the enterprise.

You will mentor leaders, shape the technical roadmap, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products for customers and associates. You will guide a team of engineers and researchers, balancing build-vs-buy decisions, cost efficiency, and performance,

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's with 8–10+ years in AI/ML
Minimum 5 years of people leadership experience

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
Invent optimization techniques for foundation models to improve performance, cost and latency
Contribute to long-term AI systems roadmap and strategy
Mentor and develop AI engineering talent and foster learning culture
Define enterprise-wide AI strategy and multi-year scalable infrastructure
Champion Responsible-AI practices across lines of business
Oversee AI operations scale across hundreds of production use cases