Senior Lead AI Engineer — GenAI Platform & Guardrails

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Lead AI Engineer to join the GenAI Platform Services team. The role focuses on building responsible AI systems, training and deploying large-scale AI components, and advancing foundational AI at Capital One.

You will lead an engineering-driven group, collaborate with researchers and PMs, and push for scalable, cost-efficient AI solutions across banking applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 6 years experience in AI/ML.
• At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including model training and inference.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and PyTorch.
• Invent and apply state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques for large-scale production AI systems.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields

Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

VectorDBs

Huggingface

PyTorch

Nemo Guardrails

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Lead AI Engineer to join the GenAI Platform Services team. The role focuses on building responsible AI systems, training and deploying large-scale AI components, and advancing foundational AI at Capital One.

You will lead an engineering-driven group, collaborate with researchers and PMs, and push for scalable, cost-efficient AI solutions across banking applications.