Senior Lead AI Engineer — Foundations & Agentic AI

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 251,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Competitive compensation

Flexible work options

Job summary

Capital One is hiring for a Sr. Lead AI Engineer in New York, NY, to build scalable AI systems and lead model training, inference, and observability.

You will collaborate with engineers, scientists, and product teams to deploy responsible AI solutions and advance Capital One's AI platforms. The role emphasizes design, development, testing, and tuning of AI components, with exposure to Open Source and SaaS tools, and opportunities to shape the long-term AI roadmap.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
• At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability, etc.
• Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more.
• Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve the performance — scalability, cost, latency, throughput — of large scale production AI systems.
• Contribute to the technical vision and the long term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

Java

AI/ML

LLM Inference

Education

Bachelor's in CS/AI/EE

Master's in CS/AI/EE

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

Nemo Guardrails

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is hiring for a Sr. Lead AI Engineer in New York, NY, to build scalable AI systems and lead model training, inference, and observability.

You will collaborate with engineers, scientists, and product teams to deploy responsible AI solutions and advance Capital One's AI platforms. The role emphasizes design, development, testing, and tuning of AI components, with exposure to Open Source and SaaS tools, and opportunities to shape the long-term AI roadmap.