Senior Lead AI Engineer, GenAI Platform & DS

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA is seeking a Senior Lead AI Engineer to design, develop and deploy AI systems across foundation model training, LLM inference and vector databases. You will help build responsible, scalable AI infrastructure and collaborate with cross‑functional teams.

The role focuses on state‑of‑the‑art optimization techniques, governance, observability, and contributing to the AI platform roadmap while leveraging Open Source and SaaS technologies to deliver high‑impact products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/AI/EE/CE with 6+ years of AI/ML experience.
• Master’s degree with 4+ years of AI/ML experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross‑functional engineers, researchers, PMs to deliver AI products.
• Design, develop, train and support AI components including model training and inference.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI tools in production environments.
• Invent state‑of‑the‑art optimization techniques for large scale AI systems.
• Contribute to the long‑term AI platform roadmap and vision.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

Java

LLM Inference

Similarity Search

VectorDBs

Guardrails

Memory

Education

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

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

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

PyTorch

Nemo Guardrails

Job description

Capital One in McLean, VA is seeking a Senior Lead AI Engineer to design, develop and deploy AI systems across foundation model training, LLM inference and vector databases. You will help build responsible, scalable AI infrastructure and collaborate with cross‑functional teams.

The role focuses on state‑of‑the‑art optimization techniques, governance, observability, and contributing to the AI platform roadmap while leveraging Open Source and SaaS technologies to deliver high‑impact products.