Senior Director, AI Platform & Responsible AI

Capital One; Springfield (IL); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of AI Engineering to lead the Agentic AI Platform. The role focuses on building responsible, scalable AI systems, overseeing model training, inference, guardrails, governance, and observability across a broad tech stack.

You will shape the technical vision, roadmaps, and manage a high-performing team of engineers and researchers. You will partner with product and risk teams to ensure ethical, transparent AI, drive cost-efficient deployment, and attract

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master in CS/AI/EE with relevant AI experience; strong leadership preferred.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience; 7+ years managing engineering teams desired.
• Experience deploying scalable, responsible AI on cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment and support of AI software components.
• Lead foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails and governance.
• Drive enterprise AI strategy, multi-year roadmaps, and ethical, transparent model practices.
• Attract, coach and retain top AI talent; build a culture of continuous learning.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products across Capital One.

Skills

People leadership

Strategic thinking

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Hands-on technical curiosity

Education

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

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

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Guardrails

LLM Inference

Python

C++

C#

Java

CUDA

Golang

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of AI Engineering to lead the Agentic AI Platform. The role focuses on building responsible, scalable AI systems, overseeing model training, inference, guardrails, governance, and observability across a broad tech stack.

You will shape the technical vision, roadmaps, and manage a high-performing team of engineers and researchers. You will partner with product and risk teams to ensure ethical, transparent AI, drive cost-efficient deployment, and attract