Senior Lead AI Engineer: Gen AI Platform & Guardrails

Capital One; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in Cambridge, MA seeks a Senior Lead AI Engineer to shape Gen AI Platform Services: Agentic AI, Guardrails, Evaluation. You will design and scale AI systems, lead cross-functional teams, and optimize LLM workloads in production.

Join a mission-driven team advancing safe, reliable AI for banking, with opportunities to influence architecture, governance, and performance across Capital One's AI platforms.

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 cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products
• 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
• 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 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

Cloud deployment

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/AI/EE/CE

Master's degree in Computer Science/AI/EE/CE

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

Nemo Guardrails

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One in Cambridge, MA seeks a Senior Lead AI Engineer to shape Gen AI Platform Services: Agentic AI, Guardrails, Evaluation. You will design and scale AI systems, lead cross-functional teams, and optimize LLM workloads in production.

Join a mission-driven team advancing safe, reliable AI for banking, with opportunities to influence architecture, governance, and performance across Capital One's AI platforms.