Senior Lead AI Engineer: Foundations for Scalable AI

Capital One

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 251,000 - 286,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Capital One seeks a Sr. Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations) to lead the development of responsible and reliable AI systems that personalize and improve customer experiences.

You will design and deploy AI software components, including foundation model training, large language model inference, and guarding/offensive measures, using a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies. Work with cross-functional teams across engineering, research, and product to drive the technical vision, roadmap,

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field with years of AI/ML experience
  • Experience building and deploying AI/ML systems at scale
  • Proven ability to lead and mentor an engineering team and influence stakeholders
  • Experience with LLM inference, similarity search, and vector databases

Responsibilities

  • Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training and inference
  • Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI technologies across the stack
  • Invent and apply state-of-the-art optimization techniques to improve performance and cost
  • Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of AI systems

Skills

AI System Design
Python
Leadership
Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/EE or related field
Master's degree in CS/AI/EE or related field

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters
Huggingface
VectorDBs
Nemo Guardrails
PyTorch

Job description

Capital One seeks a Sr. Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations) to lead the development of responsible and reliable AI systems that personalize and improve customer experiences.

You will design and deploy AI software components, including foundation model training, large language model inference, and guarding/offensive measures, using a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies. Work with cross-functional teams across engineering, research, and product to drive the technical vision, roadmap,

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